Law Dictionary

When two parties are equally at fault, the claimant always has the burden and the one in possession has the better cause.

With satchel and purse. A phrase in old Scotch law.

With the appurtenances.

With the appurtenances. Bract foL 73b.

By the power of the king and the law.

The expression of the monopoly of Oxford, Cambridge, and the royal printers to publish the Bible.

4 Kent, Comm. 493. When that which I do is of no effect as I do it, it shall have as much effect as it can; i. e., in some other way.

valeat quantum valere potest. When that which I do is of no effect as I do it, it shall have as much effect as it can, i. e., in some other way. 4 Kent, Comm. 493. CUM TESTAMENTO A

When what I do is void as I do it, it shall be as effective as it can be made.

Taken in one sense or another.

With the will annexed.

Additional; increasing. Cumulative evidence: evidence tending to prove what has already been shown by other evidence. Cnmulative legacy: a legacy in addition to another legacy. Cum

Adding to; by way of increase.

For purposes of subclause (I), the term “cumulative cash flow deficit” means, as of the date of computation, the excess of the expenses paid during the period described in subclaus

See Stock.

That which goes to prove what has already been established by other evidence.

The term “cumulative foreign amount” means the aggregate amount allowed as a deduction under the appropriate foreign tax laws for the taxable year and all prior taxable years to wh

These are legacies so called to distinguish them from legacies which are merely repeated. In the construction of testamentary instruments, the question often arises whether, where

See "Legacy."

the term “cumulative net income” means, for any period, the net income of the Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries as determined in accordance with generally accepted acco

One which can be committed only by a repetition of acts of the same kind but committed on different days. The offense of being a "common seller" of intoxicating liquors is an examp

The remedy given by the twelfth section to the corporation is co-ordinate or cumulative, but is not imperative as a condition precedent to the exercise of the authority to sell the

the probationary power ceases with respect to all of the sentences composing a single cumulative sentence immediately upon imprisonment for any part of the cumulative sentence.

Sentences on a trial and conviction of several crimes, each sentence being in addition to the others, and not for the same fine or concurrent terms of imprisonment. See "Concurrent

The term “cumulative United States amount” means the aggregate amount determined with respect to the plan under this section for the taxable year and for all prior taxable years to

That by which the voter concentrates his ballots on one or more candidates, instead of voting for the full number to be elected. Thus, a stockholder holding fifty shares may, under

In Spanish law. Affinity; alliance; relation by marriage. Las Partidas, pt 4, tit. 6,.l, 5.

Lat. To coin. Spelman^ voc. Cuneus. Ouneatus; coined. Toums. PL 180. Cuneator.; a coiner. Id. 260.

A coiner. Du Cange. Cu neare, to coin; cuneus, the die with which to coin; cuneata, coined. Du Cange; Spelman. CURA (Lat.) Care; charge; oversight; guardianship. In the Civil Law.

I. I. In old English law. The iron die with which metallic money was coined; the money itself, so coined; the place of coinage.

Lat. The iron die with which metallic money is coined. Spelman. The money itself, so coined; coin. Id. Toums. PL 260. The place of coinage; a mint Spdman. Cowell. Blount.

A writ which lay for the arrest of one who had taken the king’s money to serve in the war, and hid himself teescape going. Leg, Orig. 240.

T. Anewandcomplete law dictionary or general abridgment of the law. Sd Edn. 2 vols. 4to. London, 1783.

In old English law. A kind of trial, as appears from Bract lib. 4, tract 3, ca. 18, and tract 4, ca. 2, where it scorns to mean, one by the ordinary jury.

Curia, the court.

Care.

Care of souls.

See Cubia Advisabe

One who takes care of a thing.

One who represents the Incumbent of a church, parson, or vicar, and takes care of the church, and performs divine services in his stead. An officiating temporary minister in the En

In French law. A person charged with supervising the administration of the affairs of an emancipated minor, of giving him advico, and assisting him in the important acts of such ad

A guardian.

Intended to cure (that ls, to obviate the ordinary legal effects or consequences of) defects, errors, omissions or Irregularities. Applied partichlarly to statutes, a "curative act

a distinction is made between a bare attempt of the legislature retroactively to create liabilities for transactions which, fully consummated in the past, are deemed to leave no gr

One who has been legally appointed to take care of the interests of one who, on account of his youth, or defect of his understanding, or for some other cause, is unable to attend t

A guardian for this special purpose; as one appointed to represent an absentee. CURATOR AD LITEM (Lat.) Guardian for the suit. In English law, the corresponding phrase is "guardian

In the civil law. A guardian for this purpose; a special guardian.

Same as Guardian ad litem.

The guardian of an estate.

Surveyors of the highways.'

The office of a curator. Curatorship differs from tutorship (q. v.) in this, that the latter is instituted for the protection of property in the first place, and, secondly, of the

In Scots law. Guardianship.

A female guardian.

A

cure' is care, including nursing and medical attention during such period as the duty continues

Same as Aider by verdict.

The expression "cured by verdict" signifies that the court will, after a verdict, presume or intend that the particular thing which appears to be defectively or imperfectly stated

Was given the meaning at the residence (Memphis, Tenn.) of a purchaser, when that differed from the meaning at the residence (Atchison, Kan.) of the seller.*

The ordinary duties of an officiating clergyman. "Curate" more properly denotes the incumbent in general who hath the cure of ' souls, but more frequently it is understood to signi

In ecclesiastical law. The ecclesiastical or spiritual charge of a parish, including the usual and regular duties of a minister in charge. State v. Bray, 35 N. a 290.

A town bell rung in the evening as a signal for extinguishing lights and fires.

■ In Roman Law. One of the divisions of the Roman people. The Roman people were divided by Romulus into three tribes and thirty curiae. The members of each curia were united by the

The court of admiralty.

A court of admiralty.

The court wishes to deliberate.

In Lat. The court will advise; the court will consider. A phrase frequently found in the reporto, signifying the resolution of the court to suspend judgment in a cause, after the a

The court wishes to consider the matter.

The court-baron.

In old English law. A court-baron. Fleta, lib. 2, a 53,

The court of chancery is the workshop of justice.

A court Christian. CURIA CLAUDENDA (Lat.) In practice. A writ which anciently lay to compel a party to inclose his land. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 297. CURIA COMITATUS (Law Lat.) In old En

Courta of Christianity; ecclesiastical courts.

An old English writ requiring one to fence his land.

The county court.

A court held by the lord of the manor of Gravesend for the better management of barges and boats plying on the river Thames between Gravesend and Windsor, and also at Gravesend bri

A court held by the lord of the manor of Gravesend for the better management of barges and boats plying on the river Thames between Gravesend and Windsor, and also at Grayesend bri

In old English law. The lord's court, house, or hall, where all the CURIA LEGITIME AFFIRMATA (Law Lat.) In old Scotch practice. Court lawfully opened, or opened in due form. A form

2 Inst. 552. The court of chancery is the workshop of justice.

A court held by the lord of the manor of Gravesend for the better management of barges and boats plying on the river Thames between Gravesend and Windsor, and also at Gravesend bri

Lat. A court; the palace of a sovereign, (regia seu palatium principis.) Spelman. A sovereign's household, (familia) or court. Id. A judicial tribunal, (forum juridicum) or court,

A phrase used in old Scotch records to show that the court was opened in due and lawful manner.

Lat. In old Scotch law. Curtesy; the estate of tenancy by the curtesy. Skene de Verb. Signif. Crag, de Jur. Feud. lib. 2, c. 19, § 4. 2 Bl. Com. 126. 2 Wooddes. Lett. 14. See Curte

In Scotch law. Curtesy. Also the privileges, prerogatives, or, perhaps, retinue, of a court

Courtesy.

In old English law. The great court; one of the ancient names of parliament. 1 Bl. Comm. 148. The king's court, or aula regis. Crabb, Hist. Eng. Law, 144.

In old English law. The mayor's court. Calth. 144.

See Court of Chivalry; Court-Martial; Harcourt, His Grace the Steward, etc. CURIA REGIS (Lat). The king's court. In English Law. A court established in England by William the Conqu

A court so called, anciently held at Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight. Cowell.

In English law. The palace court. CURIA PARLIAMENTI SUIS PROPRIIS legibus subsistit. The court of parliament is governed by its own peculiar laws. Coke, 4th Inst. 50; Broom, Leg. M

4 Inst 50. The court of parliament is governed by its own laws.

Parliament is governed by its own laws.

In old English law. The court of piedpoudre or piepoudres (g. v.) 3 Bl. Comm. 32.

A court held by the sheriff of Chester. In a place there called the "Pendice." Cowell.

A court held by the sheriff of Chester, in a place there called the "Pendice" or "Pentice;" probably it was so calied from being originally held under a pent-house, or open shed co

In old records. A parsonage house, or manse. Kennett, Par. Ant. 205; Cowell. CURIA REGIS (Lat. the king's court). A term applied to the aula regis, the bancus or communis bancus, a

In old records. A. parsonage-house, or manse. Cowell.

The king,s court.

“Cure” or “curing” means the performance of those post-harvest activities traditionally performed on the Pribilof Islands, including cooling, washing, removal of blubber, soaking i

A curious and captious interpretation is disapproved in the law.

chancery practice. A bill to marshal securities is one which is filed against a party who has two funds by which his debt is secured, by a person having an interest in only one of