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to recover land from a tenant in fee who had ceased to pay rent or service for two years.

Cesse. Same as Cess.

Cesser. A ceasing or stopping. Cesset executio. An order directing

a stay of execution.

Cesset processus. An order directing a stay of proceedings. Cessio. A cession.

Cessio bonorum. An assignment for

the benefit of one's creditors. Cession. A surrender; a giving up. Cession des biens. (French) An assignment for the benefit of one's creditors.

Cessionary. An assignee.
Cessionary bankrupt. An assignor

for the benefit of his creditors. Cessment. An assessment or tax. Cessor. A tenant who by neglect to pay rent was liable to a writ of cessavit.

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Chain of causation. Such a succes

sion of events as link an act or legal cause with a result or damage. Chain-gang. A number of convicts

chained together, usually for labor. Chairman. The presiding officer at a meeting of any deliberative body.

Chaldron. A coal measure of 36 bushels.

Challenge. An objection; an exception; to object; to take exception to. Challenge for cause. An objection to a juror for a reason stated, as distinguished from a peremptory challenge. See 114 Ga. 421, 40 S. E. 308.

Challenge for favor. Same as Challenge to the favor. Challenge propter affectum. An ob

jection to a juror because of bias. Challenge propter defectum. An objection to a juror because of disqualification.

CHALLENGE

Challenge propter delictum. An objection to a juror by reason of his having committed some of, fense.

Challenge propter honoris respectum. A challenge to a juror by reason of his position.

Challenge to the array. An objection to the jury panel as a whole. See 130 N. C. 229, 41 S. E. 293. Challenge to the favor. One grounded on facts arousing suspicion of partiality. See 109 Ga. 272, 34 S. E. 579.

Challenge to the polls. An objec

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

Chamber of accounts. A French court corresponding to the English court of exchequer.

Chamber of commerce. A board of trade.

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

Chamber-counselor.

A lawyer who

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CHAPEL

Champerty. An agreement between

the owner of a claim and a volunteer, that the latter may take the claim and collect it at his own expense, dividing the proceeds with the owner. Sée 67 Vt. 233, 48 Am. St. Rep. 233, 31 Atl. 315. Champion. One who enters a combat or battel for another. See 3 Bl. Comm. 339.

Champion of the King or Queen. One who announces at a coronation that he will in combat defend the title of the newly crowned sovereign.

Chance. An accident without design. See 4 Bl. Comm. 26.

Chancellor. A judge of a court of chancery; in Scotland, the foreman of a jury.

Chancellor of diocese. An assistant to the bishop in legal affairs and is delegated by him to hear ecclesiastical causes.

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

ter. Chancellor of the exchequer. The chief financial minister of England. Chancellor, the Lord High. The highest judicial officer of the king. Chance-medley. A violent but unpremeditated affray; a killing in self-defense upon a sudden, unpremeditated attack.

Chancery. Equity; a court of equity. Chantry. A church endowed with land for the support of priests who prayed and sang for the welfare of the soul of one named in the gift.

Chapel. A small church.

Chapel of ease. A secondary church for the use of parishioners living

CHAPELRY

at a distance from the principal

one.

Chapelry. The legal.precincts of a chapel.

Chapitre. A summary of matters

to be inquired of by, or presented before, justices in eyre, justices of assize, or justices of the peace; articles delivered orally or in writing by the justice to the inquest. -Wharton.

Chaplain. One officiating in a chapel. Chaplaincy. The office of a chaplain.

Chapman. An itinerant merchant.
Chap-money. Money repaid by a
seller upon full payment.
Chappelage. The vicinity or pre-
cinct of a chapel.
Chapter. A bishop's council.
Chap-woman. A female trader.
Character. The qualities which con-

stitute the individual. See 130
Am. St. Rep. (Ill.) 288.

Charge. A debit entry in an account; an accusation; an encumbrance or lien; a court's instruction to a jury.

Charge and discharge. The complainant's delivery of his account to the master in chancery and the defendant's filing of his defense thereto.

Charge and specifications. The general allegation, the defendant's commission of a crime and the detailed facts thereof.

Charge d'affaires. An inferior diplomat of a foreign country. Charge to enter heir. (Scotch) A writ summoning an heir to take possession on the death of his ancestor.

Chargeable. Liable to a charge or accusation.

CHARTA

Charges. Costs and expenses of a litigation.

Charge-sheet. A police station blotter for the names of and charges against and accusers of prisoners. Charging order. A court order subjecting the judgment debtor's stock or funds in a public company toward satisfaction of the judgment.

Charging part. That part of a bill in equity which anticipates the defense.

Charitable trust. A trust for the benefit of an indefinite class of persons, sufficiently designated to indicate the donor's intention and constituting some portion or class of the public. See 171 Ill. 462, 63 Am. St. Rep. 241, 40 L. R. A. 730, 49 N. E. 527.

Charitable trusts acts. Statutes for the administration of charities. Charitable uses. Same as Charities. Charitable uses act. An English

statute of 1861 favoring conveyances for charitable uses. Charity. A gift to a general public use. See 24 How. (U. S.) 465, 16 L. Ed. 701.

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CHARTA

execution of forest law. See 4 Bl. Comm. 423.

Charta de non ente non valet. A deed of a thing not in being is void.

Charta partita. A charter-party. Chartae libertatum. The Magna Charta and the Charta de Foresta. See 4 Bl. Comm. 423. Chartarum super fidem, mortuis testibus, ad patriam de necessitudine, recurrendum est. If the witnesses are dead, the credibility of deeds must of necessity be referred to the country.

Charte partie. (French) A charterparty.

Chartel. A challenge to single combat.

Charter. An instrument or authority from a sovereign power bestowing rights or privileges. See 16 Wall. (U. S.) 244, 21 L. Ed. 326.

Charter

of pardons. A charter granting a pardon. Charter of the Forest. See Charta de Foresta.

Charter rolls. Old records of charters.

Charterer. One who charters a ship; a freeholder.

Charter-land. Land held by charter.

Charter-master. A coal mining contractor.

Charter-party. A contract by which a ship or part of it is let to a merchant, to convey goods on a determined voyage to one places. See 22 How. (U. S.) 330, 16 L. Ed. 249.

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Charue. A plough.

CHIEF

Chase. A game preserve other than a park or a forest; the hunting of game. Chastise. To punish corporally. Chastity. Sexual righteousness. Chattel. An article of personal property.

Chattel interest. Any interest in land of less dignity than a freehold.

Tangible per

Chattel mortgage. A mortgage of personal property. See 137 Am. St. Rep. 472, note. Chattel personal. sonal property. Chaud-medley. A killing in an affray in the heat of passion. See 4 Bl. Comm. 184. Chauntry. Same as Chantry. Cheat. Any deceitful practice, in cozening another by artful means. See 4 Bl. Comm. 156; also escheat, which see.

Check. See Bank check. See, also,
Ann. Cas. (Ky.) 1912A, 327.
Check-book. A book of blank bank
checks.

Checker. (Scotch) Exchequer.
Chef. (French) A head or chief.
Chemin. (French) A road; a high-

way.

Cheque. Same as check.
Cherif.

(French) A sheriff. Chevage. Same as chiefage. Chevantia. A loan of money. Chevisance. An agreement; an unlawful contract.

Chicane. Trickery; fraud.

Chief justice. The presiding justice of the court.

Chief. A head; a principal.

Chief baron. The chief justice of the exchequer.

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Chose. A thing; a chattel; a personal right.

Chose in action. A right enforce

able by action; a right to sue. See 76 U. S. 387, 19 L. Ed. 736. Chose in possession. A chattel in one's possession.

Chose local. A chattel which is in a fixed location.

Chose transitory. A movable chattel.

Chosen freeholders.

A board having charge of the affairs of the county.

Christian. A believer in the teachings of Christ.

Christian name. One's baptismal

name.

Christianitatis curia. Court Christian.

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