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Cattle fair

and sellers in generally a place for sale and purchase of cattle at times or on occasions ordained custom, Municipal Committee v. State of Punjab, AIR 1969 SC 1100 (1104): (1969) 1 SCC 475. [Punjab Cattle Fairs

Censure

Censure [fr. Census, Lat.] a custom observed in certain manors in Devon and Corn wall, where all persons above the aged sixteen years are

Certificate

long been obsolete, took place in those cases in which the evidence of the person certifying was, by custom or otherwise, the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; see 3 Bl. Com. 333. As to

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Chapel

These may be parochial, and have a right to sacraments and burials, and to a distinct minister, by custom, though subject in some respects to the mother-church, 2 Inst. 363. In an Act of Parliament 'chapel' means

Character

may be called by him in his defence, and, if they speak to nothing else, it is the custom that the counsel for the prosecution should not reply. it is not allowable to state any particulars of

Chiminage, or pedagium

Chiminage, or pedagium, toll due by custom for having a way through a forest, Co. Litt. 56.

Church

Church is the National Church, and as such is built into the fabric of the State' (Law and Custom of the Constitution). 'The establishment of the Churchby law,' says Lord Selborne, 'consists essentially in the incorporation of

Common assurances

of a public board or commission empowered by Act of Parliament to record its proceedings. (3) By special custom obtaining in some particular places and relating only to some particular species of property: which three are such

Boosey [or Boosy] Pasture

Boosey [or Boosy] Pasture, a pasture with a shed on or by it, by custom of the country or written agreement in the north-western counties of England frequently allowed, till May 1, or

Concessit solvere

Concessit solvere (he agreed to pay), an action of debt upon a simple contract. It lies by custom in the Mayor's Court, London, and Bristol Tolzey Court. The defence to a count sur concessit solvere was

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