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De facto
De facto, in fact, opposed to de jure, of right. The Act 11 Hen. 7, c. 1 (declared by some great writers to be only declaratory of the Common Law), was passed for the protection of...
Dagus, or Dais
or daiz, Fr., a canopy or cloth of state], the raised floor at the upper end of a hall.
Cutcherry
Cutcherry, corrupted from Kachari, a court, a hall, an office,the place where any public business is transacted, Indian
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Curia domini
Curia domini, the lord's house, hall, or court, where all the tenants meet at the time of keeping courts, Cowel.
Court-leet
still an annual Court-leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy which meets at St. Clement Danes Vestry Hall, the High Steward of the Manor presiding, a jury being empannelled one month aftr Easter and serving for
Convoy
of a ship deserting a convoy is liable to a penalty of 500l. and one year's imprisonment. See Hall or Wheaton on International Law.
Contraband
Margaretta, (1799) 1 C. Rob. 189; Tudor's L.C. in Merc. & Mar. Law, pp. 981 et seq.; and Hall, or Smith and Sibley, on International Law; VISIT AND SEARCH
Arches, Court of
upon pillars, built archwise. It was formerly held, as also were the other principal Spiritual Courts, in the hall belonging to the College of Civilians, commonly called Doctors' Commons. It is now held at the Church House,
Contempt of Parliament
the privileges of either House of Parliament maybe punished by the House by committal. See May's Parliamentary Practice; Hall, Const. Hist. Ch. xvi.
Constructive treason
letter of the law, and therefore highly dangerous to public freedom, Erskine's Defence of Lord George Gordon; 3 Hall, Const. Hit. c. xv. See TREASON.
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