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Charta de foresta

Charta de foresta is taken from the roll of 25 Edward I., and has a confirmation of that date prefixed to it, similar to that prefixed to Magna Charta. This charter, though of infinite importance at...

Civil nature

Civil nature, The word 'civil' according to dictionary means 'relating to the citizen as an individual; civil rights'. In Black's Law Dictionary it is defined as 'relating to private rights and remedies sought by civil actions...

Close of pleadings

Close of pleadings. In a civil action 'as soon as either party has joined issue upon any pleading of the opposite party simply without adding any further or other pleading thereto, the pleadings as between such...

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Commercial establishment

Commercial establishment, in the definition of a Commercial Establishment in s. 2 cl. 3 of the U.P. Shops and Commercial Eastblishment Act, 1947, the clerical and other establishments of a factory to whom the provisions of...

Blind Persons Act, 1920 (English)

Blind Persons Act, 1920 (English). Applies the Old Age Pensions Acts to persons who are so blind as to be unable to perform any work for which eyesight is essential at the age of 50 instead...

Common stock or common hotchpot

Common stock or common hotchpot, the doctrine of throwing into common stock inevitably postulates that the owner of a separate property is a coparcener who has an interest in the coparcenary property and desires to blend...

Conduct-money

Conduct-money, money paid to a witness for his travelling expenses. Testes qui postulat debet dare eis sumptus competentes. (He who requires witnesses must find their expenses to a sufficient extent.)-Reg. Jur. Civ. A witness whose expenses...

Constable

Constable [fr. Comes stabuli, Lat., in the eastern empire a superintendent of the imperial stables, or the emperor's master of the horse, who at length obtained the command of the army], an officer to whom our...

Consummation

Consummation, of tenancy by the curtesy is when a husband, upon his wife's death, becomes entitled to hold her lands in fee simple or fee tail, of which she was seised during the marriage, for his...

Consumption and use

Consummation, of tenancy by the curtesy is when a husband, upon his wife's death, becomes entitled to hold her lands in fee simple or fee tail, of which she was seised during the marriage, for his...

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