Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CALENDAR

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CABLE

C2EDTTA. In the civil and old common law. Kept for cutting; intended or used to be cut. A term applied to wood. C2ESAB. In the Roman law. A cogno men in the Gens Julia, which was assumed by the successors of Julius. Tayl. Civil Law, 31. CiESABEAN OPEBATION. A sur gical operation whereby the foetus, which can neither make its way into the world by the ordinary and natural passage, nor be ex tracted by the attempts of art, whether the mother and foetus be yet alive, or whether either of them be dead, is, by a cautious and well-timed operation, taken from the mother, with a view to save the lives of both, or either of them. If this operation be per formed after the mother's death, the hus band cannot be tenant by the curtesy; since his right begins from the birth of the* is sue, and is consummated by the death of the wife; but, if mother and child are saved, then the husband would be entitled after her death. Wharton. C^TEBIS PABIBUS. Other thing? being equal. CiETEBIS TACENTIBUS. Lat. The others being silent; the other judges ex pressing no opinion. Comb. 186. OffiTEBOBUM. When a limited ad ministration has been granted, and all the propei ty cannot be administered under it, ad ministration cceterorum (as to the residue) may be granted. CAHIEB. In old French law. A list of grievances prepared for deputies in the states general. A petition for the redress of griev ances enumerated. CAIRNS' ACT. An English statute for enabling the court of chancery to award dam ages. 21 & 22 Viet. c. 27. CALCETUM, CALCEA. A causeway, or common hard-way, maintained and re paired with stones and rubbish. CALE. In old French law. A punish • ment of sailors, resembling the modern " keel hauling. " CALEFAGIUM. In old law. A right to take fuel yearly. Cowell. CALENDAB. The established order of the division of time into years, months, weeks, and days; or a systematized enumera tion of such arrangement; an almanac.

CABLE. The great rope of a ship, to which the anchor is fastened. CABLISH. Brush-wood, or more prop erly windfall-wood. CACHEPOLUS, or CACHEBELLAS. An inferior bailiff, or catchpoll. Jacob. CACHET, LETTRES DE. Letters is sued and signed by the kings of France, and countersigned by a secretary of state, author izing the imprisonment of a person. Abol ished during the revolution of 1789. CACICAZGOS. In Spanish-American law. Property entailed on the caciques, or heads of Indian villages, and their descend ants. Schm. Civil Law, 309. CADASTBE. In Spanish law. An of ficial statement of the quantity and value of real property in any district, made for the purpose of justly apportioning the taxes pay able on such property. 12 Pet. 428, note. CADASTU. In French law. An official statement of the quantity and value of realty made for purposes of taxation; same as ca dastre, (q. v.) C A D E B E. Lat. To end; cease; fail. As in the phrases cadit actio, (or breve,) the action (or writ) fails; cadit assisa, the as sise abates; cadit qucestio, the discussion ends, there is no room for further argument. To be changed; to be turned into. Cadit assisa in juratum, the assise is changed into a jury. CADET. In the United States laws, students in the military academy at West Point are styled "cadets;" students in the naval academy at Annapolis, "cadet midship men." Rev. St. §§ 1309, 1512. In England. The younger son of a gen tleman; particularly applied to a volunteer in the army, waiting for some post. Jacob. CADI. The name of a Turkish civil mag istrate. CADIT. It falls, abates, fails, ends, ceases. See CADERK. CADUCA. In the civil law. Property of an inheritable quality; property such as de scends to an heir. Also the lapse of a testa mentary disposition or legacy. Also an es cheat; escheated property. CADUCAEY. Relating to or of the nature of escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation. 2 Bl. Comm. 245.

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