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CALENDAR

C. A brand on the forehead as a punishment for counterfeiting in Rhode Island.

C. A. V. Curia advisare vult. The court wishes to deliberate.

C. B. Common bench.

C. C. County commissioner; county court.

C. C. P. Court of common pleas. C'est ascavoir. (French) That is to say.

C'est le crime qui fait la honte, et non pas l'echafaud. It is the crime which brings disgrace, and not the scaffold.

C. H. An abbreviation for Courthouse.

C. J. Chief justice.

C. O. D. Collect on delivery. See 94 Mich. 133, 34 Am. St. Rep. 328, 53 N. W. 918.

C. T. A. Cum testamento annexo; with the will annexed.

Ca. resp. Capias ad respondendum; which see.

Ca. sa. Capias ad satisfaciendum; which see.

Cabal. A junto; a small political faction.

Caballeria. (Spanish) A lot of land measuring 100 by 200 feet. Caballero. (Spanish) A knight. Cabinet. A body of officials forming an advisory council.

Cabinet council. A council of cabinet members held privately to consider public matters. Cablish. Brushwood.

Cachepolus. A catchpoll; a bailiff; a constable.

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Cacicazgos. Lands held in entail by the caciques in Indian villages in Spanish America.-Bouv. Cadastre, or Cadaster. An assessment-roll of real property. Cadaver. A corpse.

Cadere. To fall; to fail; to end. Cadi. A Turkish civil magistrate. Caedua. Preserved for cutting, as wood.

Caduca. That which is inherited or escheated.

Caducary. Relating to or subject to escheat or forfeiture. Caducus. Falling.

Caesarean operation. Delivery of a child by cutting above the pelvis. Caetera desunt. Other things are lacking.

Caeteris paribus. Other things equal.

Caeteris tacentibus. The others being silent.

Caeterorum. Of the rest or residue. Cahier. A memorial; a petition; a report; a section of a book. Cairns' act. An English statute authorizing damages in equity suits. Calamus. A pen made of a reed. See 14 Johns. (N. Y.) 484. Calcea. A causeway. Calcetum. A causeway. Calefagium. The right to take fuel annually.

Calendar. A court list of causes to be heard; a list of prisoners with their sentences. See 9 Ill. App. 537.

Calendar amendment act. An English statute (1751) adopting the Gregorian calendar.

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Calendar month. A period terminating with the day of the succeeding month numerically corresponding to the day of its beginning, less one. If there be no corresponding day, it terminates with the last day thereof. See 46 Neb. 427, 50 Am. St. Rep. 617, 30 L. R. A. 450, 65 N. W. 46. Calends. (Roman) The first day of the month.

Call. A notice of

a meeting; a stock assessment; a monument, landmark, course or distance in a survey. See 1 Wash. St. 521, 20 Pac. 605.

Calling the jury. Calling off the names of veniremen for jury duty. Calling the plaintiff. The formal calling of the plaintiff upon ordering a nonsuit.

Calling to the bar. Admitting a student to the right to practice law.

Calpe. (Scotch) Tribute by a clansman to his chief, for protection. Calumnia. A false charge; a calumny; a claim; a demand. Calumniae juramentum. The oath against calumny; an oath of good faith.

Calumniae jus jurandum. Same as

Calumniae juramentum.

Calumniare. To claim; to calumniate.

Calumniators. Those who make false

accusations maliciously.

Calumny. Libel; slander; defamation.

Calvin's Case. An action holding that Calvin, though born in Scotland after the English crown descended to James I, who was also king of Scotland, was entitled to hold land. See 2 How. St. Tr. 559.

CAMPUS

Camara. A chamber; a vault; a treasury.

Camarage. Rent paid for storage.
Cambellanus. A chamberlain.
Cambiator. Same as Cambist.
Cambio. Exchange; a bourse.
Cambipartia. Champerty.

Cambiparticeps. A party to the offense of champerty.

Cambist. A dealer in negotiable paper.

Cambium. (Civil Law) Exchange; exchange of lands.

Camera. Same as Camara.
Camera regis. A harbor.
Camera scaccarii. The exchequer
chamber.

Camera stellata. The star-chamber.
Cameralistics. The science of fin-

ance.

Camerarius. A treasurer; a chamberlain.

Camino. (Spanish) A highway. Camorra. An Italian secret society. Campana. A church-bell; a bell. Campana bajula. A hand-bell used by court criers. Campanile. A bell tower. Campartum. A part of a field. Campbell's Act. An English statute giving a remedy for death by wrongful act. See 9 & 10 Vict.,

c. 93.

Campers. A share.

Campertum. A grain or corn field. Campias in withernam. A writ to seize other goods of equal value when the plaintiff's goods have been taken out of the county. Campfight. A duel; a battle. Campi partitio. Champerty. Campus. A field.

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CAPITAL

Capax. A holder; capable.

Capax doli. Capable of committing crime.

Capax negotii. Capable of contracting. Cape.

A judicial writ to recover land on the tenant's default. Cape magnum. A judicial writ for

the possession of land when the tenant defaulted in a real action. Cape parvum. A judicial writ to recover possession in a real action in which the tenant had appeared. Caper. A Dutch privateer. Capias. A writ for the seizure of the property or person of the defendant.

Capias ad audiendum judicium. A writ to bring a convicted misdemeanant up for sentence. See 4 Bl. Comm. 368.

Capias ad computandum. A writ commanding a defendant to account upon his refusal.

Capias ad respondendum. A writ for the arrest of the defendant in a civil action.

Capias ad satisfaciendum. A writ of execution directed against the defendant's person. See 5 N. J.

L. 799. Capias pro fine. A writ for the arrest of one who had not paid a fine.

Capias utligatum. A writ for the seizure of an outlaw or his goods. Capiatur pro fine. Let him be taken for the fine. Capita. Heads.

Capital. The property and money invested in a business; affecting human life. See 37 Ga. 597. Capital crime. A crime punishable by death.

Capital punishment. Infliction of the death penalty.

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Capitalis justiciarius banci. Chief justice of the bench.

Capitalis justiciarius totius angliae.
Chief justice of all England.
Capitalis plegius. Chief surety.
Capitalis redditus. A chief rent.
Capitaneus. One holding in capite.
Capitas diminutio. Civil death.
Capitatim. By heads; per head.
Capitation. A poll tax.
Capite. See In capite.
Capite minutus. One undergoing
civil death.

Capitis diminutio maxima. Com-
plete loss of civil status.
Capitis diminutio media. Partial
loss of civil status.

Capitis diminutio minima. Slight

loss of civil status.

Capitula. Collections of laws and ordinances drawn up under heads or divisions. Spelman.

Capitula coronis.

CARCATA

Capitular. A law or canon passed by an ecclesiastical chapter; a chapter member.

Capitulary. Same as Capitular. Capitulate. To draw up an agreement; to surrender conditionally. Capitulum. A chapter or section of a book.

Capitur pro fine. Same as Capias pro fine.

Capper. One employed to solicit business for an attorney.

Captio. Caption.

Caption. A taking; a seizure; the heading of a document.

Capitation. Undue influence.

Captator. One exercising undue influence over another.

Capture. A taking of a vessel as a prize by an enemy, in time of open war, with intent to deprive the owner of it. See 6 Wall. (U. S.) 1, 18 L. Ed. 836. A seizure of property or soldiers of an enemy in time of war.

Caput. A head; a chief; a principal. Caput baroniae. A nobleman's mansion-house.

Caput portus. The chief town of a port.

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Carcan.

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Carcata. Freighted or loaded.

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Carnaliter. Carnally.

Carnaliter cognovit. He carnally knew.

Carno. An immunity or privilege.Cowell.

Carriage. (Equity) Control or conduct. Implying a right to proceed with others in a suit. (Scotch) The service of a horse and cart. Carrier. One who transports goods for hire.

Carry. To bear; to convey.
Carrying away. The asportation or
complete moving of goods.
Carrying costs. Awarding costs.
Carta. A deed or charter.
Carta de Foresta. Laws of the

forest.

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Cas fortuit. An inevitable accident. Case. An action at law; a suit in equity; an abbreviated form of "Action on the case," which see. Case agreed. A statement of the facts of a case agreed on by the parties or found by another court. Case certified. A question of law certified by a lower court and submitted to a higher court for decision. See 128 U. S. 426, 32 L. Ed. 503, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 113. Case law. The law as laid down in the decisions of the courts. Case made. Same as Case reserved. Case of the seven bishops. An Eng

lish case in 1688 wherein the primate and six bishops were charged with libel for petitioning against the king's order that his "declarations for liberty of conscience" be read in the churches.

Case reserved. A decision rendered pro forma for the purpose of obtaining the opinion of the same

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