Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CABINET COUNCIL

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C. C. The initial letter of the word " Codex," used by some writers in citing the Code of Justinian. Tayl. Civil Law, 24. It was also the letter inscribed on the bal lots by which, among the Romans, jurors voted to condemn an accused party. It was the initial letter of condemno, I condemn. Tayl. Civil Law, 192. C, as the third letter of the alphabet, is used as a numeral, in like manner with that use of A and B, (q. ©.) The letter is also used to designate the third of a series of propositions, sections, etc., as A, B, and the others are used as numerals. It is used as an abbreviation of many words of which it is the initial letter; such as cases, civil, circuit, code, common, court, criminal, chancellor, crown. C. A. V. An abbreviation for curia ad visari vult, the court will be advised, will consider, will deliberate. C. B. In reports and legal documents, an abbreviation for common bench. Also an abbreviation for chief baron. C. C. Various terms or phrases may be denoted by this abbreviation; such as circuit court, (or city or county court;) criminal cases, (or crown or civil or chancery cases;) civil code; chief commissioner; and the re turn of cepi corpus. O. C. P. An abbreviation for Code of Civil Procedure; also for court of common C. J. An abbreviation for chief justice; also for circuit judge. C. L. An abbreviation for civil law. C. If. F. Common law procedure, in ref erence to the English acts so entitled. C. O. D. "Collect on delivery." These letters are not cabalistic, but have a deter minate meaning. They import the carrier's liability to return to the consignor either the goods or the charges. 59 Ind. 263.

C. T. A. An abbreviation for cum testa mento annexo, in describing a species of ad ministration. CABAL. A small association for the pur pose of intrigue; an intrigue. This namt was given to that ministry in the reign of Charles II. formed by Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale, who concerted a scheme for the restoration of popery. The initials of these five names form the word "cabal;" hence the appella tion. Hume, Hist Eng. ix. 69. CABALIST. In French com meroial law. A factor or broker. CABAIiLABIA. Pertaining to a horse. It was a feudal tenure of lands, the tenant furnishing a horseman suitably equipped in time of war, or when the lord had occasion for his service. CABALLEBIA. In Spanish law. An allotment of land acquired by conquest, to a horse soldier. It was a strip one hundred feet wide by two hundred feet deep. The term has been sometimes used in those parts of the United States which were derived from Spain. See 12 Pet 444, note. CABALLERO. In Spanishlaw. A knight. So called on account of its being more honorable to go on horseback (a caballo) than on any other beast. CABINET. The advisory board or coun cil of a king or other chief executive. In the government of the United States the cabinet is composed of the secretary of state, the sec retary of the treasury, the secretary of the interior, the secretary of war, the secretary of the navy, the secretary of agriculture, the attorney general, and the postmaster gen eral. The select or secret council of a prince or executive government; so called from the apartment in which it was originally held. Webster. CABINET COUNCIL. In English law. A private and confidential assembly of the most considerable ministers of state, to con cert measures for the administration of pub lic affairs; first established by Charles L Wharton.

C. P. An abbreviation for common pleas. C. R. An abbreviation for curia regis; also for chancery reports.

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