A Law Dictionary and Glossary

fi\ In old French and Canadian law. An obligation, on the part of a tenant, to perform involuntary labor at the requirement of the lord.

I I. In old English law. A corody.

I. In the civil law. To corrupt; to spoil; to make worse. Applied to the offense of taaipering with another's slave.

In English law. The extinguishment of the inheritable quality of a person's blood by attainder.

I In old English law. Corruption; violation or defilement of the person.

I. It was corruptly agreed.

In English law. A mortuary gift, due to the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner, — anciently so called because brought to church with the corpse, when it came to be

Iii Saxon law. The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal performed by eating a piece of barley bread with certain rites, upon which the accused was deemed guilty or not accordi

I. In old English law. Bark; the bark of trees; the outer covering of a thing, as distinguished from the inner substance, — hence the letter of an instrument, as distinguished from

/. L In old records, a yard or court adjoining to a country farm; a curt Uaga

In old English law. An offense where any thing was done deceitfully, whether belonging to contracts or not, which could not be properly termed by any special name.

In old English law. A feudal prerogative or custom for lords to lie and feast themselves at their tenants' bouses.

cosenage. I fr. In old English law. Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity; a writ that lay where a man's great-great-grandfather, or collateral relative, beyon

custages, I, fr. In old English law. Costs.

The expenses incurred in the prosecution or defense of an acinents as are alloxved bylaw. Costs between attorney and client: costs payable in every case to the attorney or solicito

cottagium, cota, chota^ cotellus, I. I In old English law. A cottage; a small house or cot with at least four acres of land. V. Cottage.

coterellus, cotmannus, I. I. In old English law. A cottager, or cotter.

cotsethland. In old English law. Land held by a cottager, whether in socage or villeinage.

In old English law. The seat of a cottage, including the land belonging to it

cotsethus, I. I. In old English law. A cottager who, by servile tenure, was bound to work for the lord.

A little dwelling-house, without land, — or more properly with a small portion of land. v. Cotagium.

chochaunt, Z. /n In old English law. Lying down. Coachant et levant: lying down and rising up.

An estoppel or bar; an end or close, as of a pleading. tender of an issue to be tried by jury way of traverse or denial.

I. I have confirmed. The emphatic word in ancient deeds of confirmation.

I. In civil and old English law. To confiscate; to claim for, or bring into, the fisc or treasury.

L In the Roman law. Marriage.

An advocate; a counsellor; a counsellor who acts as advisor in a particular matter, or assists in the management of a particular cause.

A person whose occupation and office are to give counsel or advice as to the management of suits and other legal business, to conduct the trial or argument of causes in court and t

counte, countee, eonte, I. fr. or ang.-norm. In old English law. An officer anciently the chief or governor of a shire, which was hence called a county; an earl. v. Comes; Comte; C

I. fr. and eng. A statement of a plaintiff's case in court, being the first in the series of the pleadings in an action; a declaration, particularly in a real action; a distinct st

In old English law. Credit or mentunu

/. fr. In old English law. To count; shall count

Pleader: the name of two London the Poultry counter, and the Wood-street

In opposition to; contrary. Counter in opposition or contradictory to another a bond of indemnity. In the civil law. Counter letter: an instrument by the lender of money to whom pr

counter, countour, I fr. and eng. In advocate or professional pleader; one who that is, related his case, recited his count or

That which is made in imitation out lawful authority or contrary to law, and by passing the false for the true.

A new or opposite direction; to a former one, for the purpose of avoiding

The corresponding part of an copy. Where an instrument of conveyance that is, by having several copies made and that which is executed by the grantor is and the rest counterparts;

A plea which answers some matter purpose of the suit as a plea in answer to a

In old English law. A roll kept upon another officer's roll.

The inhabitants of a district from in a cause; a jury summoned or to be

A civil division of a state or kingdom, cial purposes, formerly governed in England from whom it derived its name, — the same the corresponding term in Saxon; the count}ciently so

/. /}•. To cut Coupes: cut Coupanius: we out Coupastes: you cut

The direction of a boundary line; the usual mode or way; custom; usage; procedure; routine. Course of an action: progressive action in a proceeding not determined. Course of trade

A tribunal established for the public administration of justice, and composed of one or more judges, who sit for that purpose at fixed times and places, attended by proper officers

In English law. The hand in which the records of formity; and its use gave to the ancient record its acknowledged superiority over the modern, in the important quality of durabilit

A kinsman or blood relation. Applied in the old books to a brother, 8isf.er or uncle,

coustumier, coutumler, Ifr. A collection of customs, usages and forms of proceeding in the old law of France, v. Grand coustumier.

sax. In Saxon and early English law. A person who willingly and knowingly received an outlaw, and cherished or concealed him.

L I. In old English law. To convict; to condemn in a civil action; to find guilty. Convictus de perjurio: convicted of perjury.

gr.-l In the civil law. A dealer in V. Argentarius.

convenable, ?. /n and eng. Convenient; becoming; fit or suitable.

A writ or action that anciently lay for non-performance of any covenant in writing; a modern form of action ex contractu which lies for the recovery of damages for breach of a cont

The person to whom a covenant is made.

The person who makes a covenant

The statute 22 & 23 Car. II., u. 1, enacted for the punishment of the offense of cutting off or disabling a limb or member, with intent to maim or disfigure. So called from being o

fr. and eng. Covered; protected. Covert baron or de baron: under protection of a husband; married, v. Baron; Feme covert.

The condition of a woman during marriage.

A secret combination to effect fraud.

Deceitful; fraudulent

Jn English law. A liberty to use a crane for drawing up goods out of a vessel at a creek or wharf, and to make profit of it; the money taken for such work.

I I. In old English law. A crop. v. Croppa.

crassa, I. Large; gross; excessive; extrema Crassa ignorantia: gross ignorance. Crassa negligentia: gross negligence. Crassus piscis: large fisli.

In old English law. On the morrow; a title formerly given to the return days of writs, days in bank, or appearance days in the courts at Westminster. Crastino animarum: on the morr

cravent, cravant. In old English law. A word of disgrace, in the trial by battel, on the uttering of which by either champion he demned, as a recreant, to become infamous, and not

I. In the civil law. To create; to constitute or appoint, as a guardian.

/. To believe; to put faith in; to entrust with.

Worthiness of belief; that quality in a witness which renders his evidence worthy of belief.

To be believed; entitled to credit; worthy of belief.

Belief; confidence; payment of money, in confidence of future repayment; transfer of property sold, in confidence of future payment of the purchase-money; capacity of being trusted

I. In old English law. Believed; trusted.

One who gives or has given credit to another; one to whom a debt is due.

I. L In old English law. The increase of the county.

I I. In Saxon law. To put out an eye.

I. In old English law. The light which continues after the setting, or precedes the rising, of the sun; twilight.

I. In the civil law. A Certain number of days allowed an heir to deliberate whether or not he would take the inheritance.

In maritime law. A ship's company, embracing all the officers, as well as the common seamen; in a stricter sense, the officers and common seamen, excluding the master; in the stric

An officer of court, whose duty is to make proclamation of opening and adjournment, to call parties, jurors and witnesses, to assist in the administration of oaths, to impose silen

con. v. Criminal conversation.

An act committed or omitted, in violation of a public ]aw, either forbidding or commanding it; a breach of some public right or' duty due to the community, considered in its social

I. A crime. Crimen falsi: forgery, perjury or an offense of kindred character. Crimen raptus: rape. Crimen roberiae: robbery. feiting or falsifying the king's seal. preferred a cha

Relating to crime; having the con Tersation: unlawful intercourse with tery. Criminal law: that branch or of crimes and their punishments. In English law. Criminal information: the

I. In old English law. Criminal,

I Criminally.

To expose a person to a criminal

Abuse; ill-treatment; unnecessary infliction of pain, commonly physical; immoderate chastisement - As between huaband and wife, such acts as cause injury to life, limb or health, o

croo, croy. In old Scots law. A sytbment, for the slaughter of a man.

In old English law. A small piece of a dwelling-house.

That which is cropped, cut or gathered which is planted in the earth, as grain, portion of the year that is occupied in V. Away-going; Orowing; Outstanding.

eroppus, I. I. In old records, a crop

An action brought by a party has sued him, on the same subject-matter, V. Circuity of action. Cross-bill: a bill in equity against the complainant in against him. Cross-examination

In English law. The sovereign power of the monarchy, especially in relation to the punishment of crimes. Crown law: criminal law, — the crown being the prosecutor in criminal proce

cronner. In old Scots law. Coroner; a coroner. Cruce sig^nati, I. I. In old English law. Signed or marked with the cross; pilgrims to the holy land, so called because they wore the

A voyage for the purpose of making captures jwi-e belli.

To call out aloud; to proclaim; to sell at auction, v. Outcry.

I. fr. In old English law. The cry of the country; the hue and cry after oflienders, as raised by the country, in the absence of the constable, v. Hue and cry.

crier. One who calls out aloud; one who publishes or proclaims; an auctioneer, v. Crier.

I. In the civil with the view of cutting

I. In the civil and or used to be cut

I. Administration after a limited power