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The court of chancery does not give any specific lien to a creditor at large, against his debtor, further than he has acquired at law; for, as he did not trust the debtor on the fa

a debtor has a legal right to prefer one creditor over another, when the transaction is bona fide; but... the law condemns any plan in the disposition of property which necessarily

An assignment whereby a debter, generally an insolvent, transfers to another his property, in trust tu pay his debts or apply the property upon their payment.

when any national banking association shall have gone into liquidation under the provisions of section five thousand two hundred and twenty of said statutes, the individual liabili

These bills are formally, as well as substantially, creditors' bills, by which the complainants are regularly and properly united in seeking satisfaction from subjects against whic

Joint creditors.

subsequent creditors in good faith and without notice of the mortgage, and that the statutory invalidity of an unfiled chattel mortgage extends to all creditors who became such aft

every defeription of creditors, and cannot be limited or narrowed down to fuch only, whofe debtors had not paid into the loan office of "Virginia.

By the term “creditors” is understood not only those who have lent money but all to whom a debt is owing from any cause.

The term “credit outstanding” includes— (I) any loan or extension of credit, (II) the issuance of a guarantee, acceptance, or letter of credit, including an endorsement or standby

For purposes of this section, the term “credit period” means, with respect to any building, the period of 10 taxable years beginning with— (A) the taxable year in which the buildin

The term “credit program account” means the budget account into which an appropriation to cover the cost of a direct loan or loan guarantee program is made and from which such cost

The term “credit rating” means an assessment of the creditworthiness of an obligor as an entity or with respect to specific securities or money market instruments.

The term “credit rating agency” means any person— (A) engaged in the business of issuing credit ratings on the Internet or through another readily accessible means, for free or for

For purposes of this subsection, the term “credit recapture” means any increase in tax under section 42(j) or 50(a).

The term “credit repair organization”— (A) means any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails to sell, provide, or perform (or represent that such pe

A female creditor.

The term “credit sale” refers to any sale in which the seller is a creditor. The term includes any contract in the form of a bailment or lease if the bailee or lessee contracts to

In this subsection, the term “credit score” means a numerical value or a categorization created by a third party derived from a statistical tool or modeling system used by a person

The term “credit transfer agreement” means a formal agreement, such as an articulation agreement, among and between secondary and postsecondary education institutions or systems th

the term “credit union” has the meaning given the term in section 5301 of this title ; / The term “credit union” means a Federal credit union, State credit union, or State-chartere

the term “credit union organization” means any entity that— (A) is not a credit union; (B) is an entity in which an insured credit union may lawfully hold an ownership interest or

Lat. Believed; trusted. Male creditus; ill thought of; in bad repute or credit. j Broc^ fol. 116.

I believe.

In maritime law. Such little inlets of the sea, whether within, the precinct or extent of a port or without, which are narrow passages, and have shore on either side of them. Calli

Creyer, Crere, Crier, Craire. L. Fr. To believe, to give credit to; to confide in; to trust; to entrust with. Kelham, L. Fr. Diet. Britt. c. 4.

The act or practice of reducing a corpse to ashes by means of fire. Act Pa. 1891, June 8; P. L. 212. To burn a dead body instead of burying it is not a misdemeanor unless it is so

The increase of a county. The sheriffs of counties anciently answered in their accounts for the improvement of the king's rents, above the viscontiel rents, under this title.

The increase of the county. The inferease of the king's rents above the old vicontlal rents, for which the sheriffs were to account. Wharton.

The term "CREP" means a conservation reserve enhancement program carried out under subsection (b)(1).

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

In Saxon law. To put out an eye; which had a pecuniary punishment of fifty shillings annexed to it. Wharton.

Lat. A creek. Towns. PI 195.

Daylight; twilight. The light which immediately precedes or follows the rising or setting of the sun. 4 Bl. Comm. 224. Housebreaking during the period in which there is sunlight en

Punishment ought to be increased as malice increases.

2 Inst. 479. Vice increasing, punishment ought also to increase.

Growing.

To grow.

A term used in heraldry; it signifies the devices set over a coat of arms.

The term “crest facilities” means— (A) all facilities and developments located on the crest of Sandia Mountain, including the Sandia Crest Electronic Site; (B) electronic site acce

In medical Jurisprudence, A form of imperfect or arrested mental development, which may amount to idiocy, with physical degeneracy or deformity or lack of development; endemic in S

In old records. A sudden stream or torrent; a rising or inundation.

Time for deliberation allowed an heir to decide whether he would or would not take an inheritance. Calv. Lex.; Taylor.

“crew” means any employee of a licensee or transferee, or of a contractor or subcontractor of a licensee or transferee, who performs activities in the course of that employment dir

For purposes of this chapter, the term “crew leader” means an individual who furnishes individuals to perform agricultural labor for another person, if such individual pays (either

In maritime law. A list of the crew of a vessel; one of a ship's papers. This instrument is required by act of congress, and sometimes by treaties. Rev. St. U. S §§ 4374, 4.375 (In

The term “crewman” means a person serving in any capacity on board a vessel or aircraft.

The term "crewmember" has the meaning given such term in section 1.1 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations). / The term “crewmember” means an

The term “color rendering index” or “CRI” means the measure of the degree of color shift objects undergo when illuminated by a light source as compared with the color of those same

In this subsection, the term “crib” includes— (A) new and used cribs; (B) full-sized or nonfull-sized cribs; and (C) portable cribs and crib-pens.

In this section, the term "crib bumper"— (1) means any material that is intended to cover the sides of a crib to prevent injury to any crib occupant from impacts against

To argue.

Hue and cry.

A bailiff or other attendant in court, whose duty is to make proclamations in court.

Fr. To proclaim; to make proclamation. Kelham. To read or recite aloud. See Criez la peet.

Rehearse the concord. One of the formalities in levying a fine.

Rehearse the concord, or peace. A phrase used in the ancient proceedings for levying fines. It was the form of words by which the justice before whom the parties appeared directed

MRehearse the concord, or peace. A phrase used in the ancient proceedings for levying fines. It waa the form of words by which the justice before whom the parties appeared directed

CON. An abbreviation for criminal conversation, of very frequent use, denoting adultery; unlawful sexual intercourse with a married woman. Bu Uer, N. P. 27; Bac. Abr. "Marriage" (E

An abbreviation for criminal conversation, of very frequent use, denoting adultery, unlawful sexual intercourse with a married woman. Bull. N. P. 27; Bacon, Abr. Marriage (E) 2; Ni

every fact that is by law a basis for imposing or increasing punishment (in contrast with a fact that mitigates punishment).

Sodomy. CRIMEN (Lat.) A crime. In the civil law. A charge of crime. - — Crimen Falsi. In civil law. A fraudulent alteration, or forgery, to conceal or alter the truth, to the preju

Fraud has consistently been regarded as such a contaminating component in any crime that American courts have, without exception, included such crimes within the scope of moral tur

A crime.

In civil law. A fraudulent alteration, or forgery, to conceal or alter the truth, to the prejudice of 'another. This crime may be committed in three ways, namely: by forgery; by fa

CUM QUIS ILlloltur, cul non fuerit ad haec data auctorltas, de eiglllo regis rapto vel invento brevla, eartasve obnslgnaverit. The crimen ftM (crime of falsifying) is when any one

The crime of falsifying applies to one to whom the authority has not been given who has signed writs or charters with the king’s seal, stolen or found.

Larceny.

Arson.

In criminal law. The crime of lese-majesty, or Injuring majesty or royalty; high treason. The term was used by the older English law-writers to denote any crime affecting the king'

High treason.

The punishment for high treason exceeds that of all other crimes.

3 Inst. 210. The crime of treason exceeds ali other crimes in its punishment

Crime vitiates everything which springs from it. 6 Hill (N. Y.) 523, 531.

Rape. Crimen Roberiae. Robbery. ■—^Crimen Trahit Personam. The crime carries the person; i. e., the commission of a crime gives the courts of the place where it is committed jurisd

The offense of robbery.

Robbery.

A crime draws the person with it. See 3 Denio (N. V.), 190, 45 Am. Dec. 468.

an offense that, among other things, has "as an element the use [or] attempted use ...

It is the aim of the section not merely to protect innocent persons from actual loss through reliance upon false assumptions of Federal authority, but to maintain the general good

abduction, arson, escape, kidnapping, manslaughter, except involuntary manslaughter, mayhem, murder, robbery, or rape or sexual offense in the first or second degree, or an attempt

the term "crime of violence motivated by gender" means a crime of violence committed because of gender or on the basis of gender, and due, at least in part, to an animus

fellatio, the Tennessee court rejecting the contention that the statute was limited to the common-law copulation-per-armm scope of the phrase.

Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring di

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “crime victim” means the person against whom the State offense is committed or, if that person is killed or incapacitated, that person’s fa

As a noun, one who has been guilty of a crime. As an adjective, violative of the criminal law; pertaining to crime, or to penal jurisprudence.

The general rule of the common law is that a judgment in a criminal proceeding cannot be read in evidence in a civil action to establish any fact there determined. The reason for t

A crime. Sometimes applied to the act of crime, as severed from the criminal intent.

The proceeding by which a party charged with a public offense is accused and brought to trial and punishment is known as a "criminal action." Pen. Code Cal. § 683. A criminal actio

Criminal anarchy is the doctrine that organized government should be overthrown by force or violence, or by assassination of the executive head or of any of the executive officials

Whenever one intending to commit a particular crime does an act toward it, but is interrupted, or some accident intervenes, so that he fails to accomplish what he meant, he is said

only a criminal prosecution against the witness himself, disapproved.

An accusation of crime, formulated in a written, complaint, information, or indictment, and taking shape in a prosecution. U. S. v. Patterson. 150 U. S. 65 , 14 Sup. Ct. 20, 37 L E

collective criminal agreement—partnership in crime—presents a greater potential threat to the public than individual delicts. Concerted action both increases the likelihood that th

The proceeding for criminal contempt, unlike that for civil contempt, is between the public and the defendant, is an independent proceeding at law, and no part of the original caus

See "Crim. Con."

the term “criminal drug statute” means a criminal statute involving manufacture, distribution, dispensation, use, or possession of any controlled substance; / The term “criminal dr

In this section, “criminal history information” means the following information with respect to any juvenile or adult arrest, citation, or conviction of any person referred to in s

For purposes of this paragraph, the term "criminal history record check" means a national background check of criminal history records of the Federal Bureau of Investigat

In this section, the terms "agency", "criminal history record information", and "suspension" have the meanings given the terms in section 9201 of titl