Category: C

  • Customary Freeholds

    Definition of Customary Freeholds A superior kind of copyholds. The tenants hold by copy of court roll according to the custom of the manor, but not at the will of the lord. Abolished by the Law of Property Act, 1922 Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription […]

  • Cum Liber Erit

    Definition of Cum Liber Erit The appointment of another man’s slave as tutor is void, unless made with the condition when he becomes free. Ulpian says that it is to be implied, if not inserted. (Roman law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Cum […]

  • Customs

    Definition of Customs The duties or tolls payable upon merchandise exported from and imported into the country. Customs formalities From the document Trade Barriers Regulation [TBR], published by the European Commission: It has long been recognized that the administrative formalities […]

  • Cum Testamento Annexo

    Definition of Cum Testamento Annexo With the will annexed. See betters of Administration Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Cum Testamento Annexo in the Dictionaries, Cum Testamento Annexo in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics […]

  • Cumber V. Wane

    Definition of Cumber V. Wane ((1719), 1 Strange, 426). Held, that giving a note for 5 cannot be pleaded in satisfaction of 15. If one party die while the Court is considering its judgment, a judgment may be entered mine pro tune Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

  • Courts Of Request

    Definition of Courts Of Request Inferior Courts having local jurisdiction in claims for small debts, established in various parts of the kingdom by special Acts of Parliament. Abolished 1846 Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Courts Of Request in the […]

  • Cross-action

    Definition of Cross-action The bringing by a defendant in an action of another action against the plaintiff in respect of the same subject-matter. See Counterclaim Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Cross-action in the Dictionaries, Cross-action in […]

  • Courts, Superior

    Definition of Courts, Superior Courts which are not subject to the control of any other Court, except by way of appeal Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Courts, Superior in the Dictionaries, Courts, Superior in our legal dictionaries, Related […]

  • Crown

    Definition of Crown See Sovereignty ; Petition of Eight. As to liability of servants of the Crown, see Bainbridge v. Postmaster -General ; Buron v. Dcnman; Lane v. Cotton. As to rights of the Crown see Bate’s Case; Campbell v. Hall Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

  • Couturier V. Hastie

    Definition of Couturier V. Hastie ((1856), 5. H. L. C. 673). If the subjectmatter with reference to which parties contract has ceased to exist at the date of the contract, without the parties’ knowledge, the contract is voidA cargo of corn coming from Salonica was sold, but at the time of the […]