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Cornage
a horn when any invasion of the Scots was perceived; and by this tenure many persons held their lands northward about the place commonly called Picts' Wall. This old service of horn-blowing was afterwards paid in money,
Contra formam feoffamenti
Contra formam feoffamenti, a writ that lay for the heir of a tenant enfeoffed of certain lands or tenements, by charter of feoffment from a lord, to make certain services and suits to his court,
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 own life,
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Cui in vita
vita (to whominlife). A writ of entry for a widow against him to whom her husband aliened her lands or tenements in his lifetime; which must contain in it, that during his life she could not withstand
Conditional limitation
annexed to this prior estate, which would have the double effect of defeating the estate, and passing the lands to a stranger, for as a remainder it was void, being an abridgment or defeasance of the estate
Compost
soil or earth and other matters mixed, in order to make a fine kind of mould for fertilizing lands.
Commissioners of Woods
Commissioners of Woods. See COMMISSIONERS OF CROWN LANDS.
Commissin of charitable uses
Commissin of charitable uses, issued out of Chancery to the bishop and others to inquire into misapplication of lands given to charitable uses, 43 Eliz. c. 4. See CHARITABLE USES.
Colorado beetle
its introduction into Great Britain by means of orders (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Agriculture') prohibiting or regulating the landing of potatoes, etc., likely to introduce it, and giving powers to destroy crops on which it may be
Claims Court of
divers services to the sovereign threat (as to carry the spurs) in regard of their tenure of divers lands. See the Report of the Court before the Coronation of his late Majesty King Edward the Seventh, by
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