CHARGE, practice. The opinion expressed by the court to the jury, on the law arising out of a case before them.2. It should contain a clear and explic...
CHANGE. The exchange of money for money. The giving, for example, dollars for eagles, dimes for dollars, cents for dimes. This is a contract which alw...
CHAMPION. He who fights for another, or takes his place in a quarrel; it also includes him who fights his own battles. Bract. lib. 4, t. 2, c. 12.CHAN...
CHAMBER. A room in a house.2. It was formerly hold that no freehold estate could be had in a chamber, but it was afterwards ruled otherwise. When a ch...
CHALLENGE, practice. An exception made to jurors who are to pass on a trial; to a judge; or to a sheriff.2. It will be proper here to consider, 1. the...
CESSION, eccl. law. When an ecclesiastic is created bishop, or when a parson takes another benefice, without dispensation, the first benefice becomes ...
CESSET EXECUTIO. The staying of an execution.2. When a judgment has been entered, there is sometimes, by the agreement of the parties, a cesset execut...
CERTIFICATE, practice. A writing made in any court, and properly authenticated, to give notice to another court of anything done therein; or it is a w...
CEPIT. Took. This is a technical word, which cannot be supplied by any other in an indictment for larceny. The charge against the defendant must be th...
C2ETERORUM. The name of a kind of administration, which, after an administration has been granted for a limited purpose, is granted for the rest of th...