Law Dictionary

It Fr. To drive, compel or oblige; also to chase or hunt.

L. Lat. A horse for the chase or a hound, dog or courser.

An officer in chancery who fits the wax for sealing to the writs, commissions, and other instruments there made to be issued out. He is probably so called because he warms (,chaufe

Goods; wares; merchandise.

Anciently signified wares and merchandise. Hence the word chaffering, which is yet used for buying and sell- CHAFFERY Traffic; the practice of buying and selling. Rapalje & L.

Traffic; the practice of buying and selling.

An officer in the English chancery whose duty was to fit the wax to v3al the writs, commissions, and other instruments thence issuing. The office was abolished by St. 15 & 16 Vict.

Lat. In old English law. To chase, drive or hunt. Cowell.

See Desceiptio, Persoiise.

Fr. To faU. Lesser chaier; to let fall. Kelham. See Cheir,

A measure used by engineers and surveyors, being twenty-two yards in length.

The term “chain broadcasting” means simultaneous broadcasting of an identical program by two or more connected stations.

A number of convicts chained together, usually for labor.

if the contempt occurs before a subcommittee, the line of authority from the House to the Committee and then to the subcommittee must plainly and explicitly appear, and it must app

Such a succession of events as link an act or legal cause with a result or damage.

A term applied metaphorically to the series of conveyances or other forms of alienation, affecting a particular parcel of land, arranged consecutively, from the government or origi

The term “Chair” means the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights. / The term “Chair” means the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quali

the term “Chairman” means the Chairman of the National Credit Union Administration Board; / The term “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley

In English parliamentary practice. In the commons, this officer, always a member, is elected by the house on the assembling of every new parliament. When the house is in committee

The term “Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Appraisal Subcommittee selected by the Council. / The term “Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Council. / the term “Chair

A measure of capacity, equal to fifty-eight and two-thirds cubic feet, nearly.

Twelve sacks of coals, each holding three bushels, weighing about a ton and a half. In Wales they reckon 12 bsrrels ox pitchers a ton or chaldron, and 29 cwt. of 120 lbs. to the to

L/r., Challenge. In old English law. To object or except to a writ or pleading; to object or except to a person, as a juror; to claim, or demand as a right

or CAULKING. The process or method of stopping the seams in a ship or a vessel.

[t]o object or except to" or "to put into dispute.

To accuse, to call to answer, to appeal in the old sense of the word; to dispute or call in question; to object or except to a person; to except to persons returned to be jurors, w

The term “challenge cost-share agreement” means any agreement entered into between the Secretary and any cooperator for the purpose of sharing costs or services in carrying out aut

A challenge to a juror for which some cause or reason is alleged. Termes de 1a Ley; 4 Bl. Comm. 353. Thus distinguished from a peremptory challenge. Turner v. State, 114 Ga. 42l, 4

An objection to a juror for a reason stated, as distinguished from a peremptory challenge. See 114 Ga. 421, 40 S. E. 308.

Same as Challenge to the favor.

In this subchapter, the terms “challenge inspection”, “plant site”, “plant”, “facility agreement”, “inspection team”, and “requesting state party” have the meanings given those ter

A privilege allowed to a prisoner in criminal cause. Termes de la Ley; 4 Bl. Comm, 353; Co. Litt. 156.

An objection to a juror because of bias.

A chnilenge to a juror on account of some legal disqualification, such as infancy, etc. See Challenge.

An objection to a juror because of disqualification.

An objection to a juror by reason of his having .committed some ofr fense.

A challenge to a juror by reason of his position.

Challenges concern the eligibility of prospective voters.

A summons or invitation, given by one person to another, to engage in a personal combat; a request to fight a duel. A criminal offense. See Steph. Grim. Dig. 40; 3 East, 581; Sinte

a challenge with respect to the constitution of the panel

a challenge to the polls for actual bias

The same as a challenge to the array. See supra. And see Pen. Code Cal. 1903, § 1058.

A chnilenge made separately to an individual juror; as distinguished from a challenge to the array. Harrisburg Bank v. Forster, 8 Watts (Pat) 306.

An objection to an individual jury. See 8 Watts (Pa.), 304.

A room in a house. There may be an estate of freehold in a chamber as distinct and separate from the ownership of the rest of the house; 1 Term 701; Co. Litt. 48 b; Loring v. Bacon

WIDOW’S. A portion of the effects of a deceased person, reserved for the use of his widow, and consisting of her apparel, and the furniture of ber ed-chamber, is called in London t

A term applied to all such judicial business as may properly be transacted hy a judge at hls chambers or elsewhere, as distinguished from such as must be done by the court in sessi

A lawyer who counsels and advises but does not appear in court.

or CHAMBER DEAcons. In old English law. Certain poor Irish scholars, clothed in mean habit, and living under no rule; also beggars banished from England. 1 Hen. V. cc. 7, 8; Wharto

In old English law. Certain poor Irish scholars, clothed in mean habit, and living under no rule; aiso beggars banished from England. (1 Hen. V. cc. 7, 8.) Wharton.

A treasurer.

Chamberlainship; the of Rce of a chamberlain. Cowell.

Chamberlainship; the office of a chamberlain. Cowell.

A French court corresponding to the English court of exchequer.

A society of the principal merchants and traders of a city, who meet to promote the general trade and commerce of the place. Similar societies exist in all the large commercial cit

The second house of the English parliament; the assembly in France, Italy and Spain.

Rooms or apartments. The private room of the judge. Any hearing before a judge which does not take place during a term of court, or while the judge is sitting in court, or an order

WIDOW'S. A portion of the effects of a deceased person, reserved for the use of his widow, and consisting of her apparel and the furniture of her bed chamber, is called in London t

The harbors of England.

At an early day in Pennsylvania, surveyors often made drafts on paper of pretended surveys of public lands, and returned them to the land office as duly surveyed, instead of going

A portion of the effects of a deceased person, reserved for the use of his widow, and consisting of her apparel, and the furniture of her bed-chamber, is called in London the "wido

In old English law. Change or exchange. Bract, fois. 117, 118.

I. fr. In old English law. A private repository of money; a private treasury; a coffer.

A name anciently given to St. Edward's chamber, called the "Painted Chamber," destroyed by fire with the houses of parliament

In criminal law. One who makes pleas or suits or causes them to be moved, either directly or indirectly, and sues them at his proper costs, upon condition of having a part of the g

In French law. The grant of a piece of land by the owner to another, on condition that the latter would deliver to him a portion of the crops. 18 Toullier, Dr. Civ. note 182.

Same as Champerty.

See "Campus Mail."

See "Campus Martil."

In old English law. A share or division of land; champerty. In old Scotch law. A gift or bribe, taken by any great man or Judge from any person, for delay of just actions, or furth

Lat. Champertj. Beg, Grig, 188, in marg.

In criminal law. One who makes pleas or suits, or causes them to be moved, either directly or indirectly, and sues them at his proper costs, upon condition of having a part of the

Partaking of or tainted with champerty.

the 'unlawful maintenance of a suit, in consideration of an agreement to have a part of the thing in dispute, or some profit out of it;' and by Chitty as 'a bargain to divide the l

There is no principle in equity which prevents a creditor from assigning an interest in a debt, after institution of a suit therefor, as being within the statutes against champerty

In old English law. He who fights for another, or takes his place in a quarrel; one who fights his own battles. Bracton, lib. 4, tit. 2, c. 12.

the coronation, while the king was at dinner, and, by the proclamation of a herald, make a challenge "that, if any man shall deny the king's title to the crown, he is there ready t

"Pure chance consists in the absence of all means of calculating results." Morris (Iowa) 169. It is to be distinguished from "accident," which is "the unusual prevention of an effe

Y.2 1. In England, the highest court next to parliament. Originally consisted of two distinct tribunals: an ordinary court, or court of common law; and an extraordinary court, or c

In ecclesiastical law. The part of a church in which the communion table stands; it belongs to the rector or the impropriator. 2 Broom & H. Comm. 420.

chancellarie, I fr. Chancery.

In the United States. The presiding judge of a court of chancery. In England. A judicial officer of the king; a bishop or other high dignitary. See "Chancellor of the Exchequer," e

THE LORD HIGH. The lord high chancellor of Great Britain Is "created by the mere delivery of the king's great seal into his custody, whereby he becomes, without writ or patent, an

One of the quattuor personae, or lour chief dignitaries of the cathedrals of the old foundation. The duties assigned to the ofl Bce by the statutes of the different chapters vary,

In ecclesiastical law, the officer appointed to assist a bishop in matters of law, and to hold his consistory courts for him. 1 Bl. Comm. 382; 2 Steph. Comm. 072,

A judicial officer who dcts as the delegate of the bishop in hearing ecclesiastical causes, etc. The office generally includes in it two other oflfices, — that of official principa

The presiding officer in the law and equity courts of Lancaster.

In English law. An officer before whom, or his deputy, the court of the duchy chamber of Lancaster is held. This is a special jurisdiction concerning all manner of equity relating

A minister of state who presides in the exchequer, and takes care of the interests of the crown, in addition to his other parliamentary duties. With the lord treasurer, he leases t

In English law. Courts of local jurisdiction in and for the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England.

In England, this is the highest judicial functionary in the kingdom, and superior, in point of precedency, to every temporal lord. He is appointed by the delivery of the king's gre

In criminal law. A sudden affray. This word is sometimes applied to any kind of homicide by misadventure, but in strictness it is applicable to such killing only as happens in defe

To adjust according to principles of equity, as would be done by a court of chancery. Cent Diet. The practice indicated by the word arose in parts of New England at a time when the

“chancery” means the principal offices of a foreign mission used for diplomatic or related purposes, and annexes to such offices (including ancillary offices and support facilities

See Crown OFFIOGE IN

The mode by which a court of chancery ascertains the amount, in cases of that description, is either by a reference to the master, or by sending an issue of quantum damnificatus to

Such a receiver has no extraterritorial power of official action; none which the court appointing him can confer, with authority to enable him to go into a foreign jurisdiction to

In appeals from the circuit courts in chancery cases, the parol testimony which is heard at the trial in the circuit court, ought to appear in the record.

In English law. The official head of a university. His principal prerogative is to hold a court with jurisdiction over the members of the university, in which court the vicechancel