Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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correspond. Also the courses and distances designated. 3. In corporation law. A demand made by the directors of a stock company upon the persons who have subscribed for shares, re quiring a certain portion or installment of the amount subscribed to be paid in. The word, in this sense, is synonymous with "as sessment," (q. v.) A call is an assessment on shares of stock, usually for unpaid installments of the sub scription thereto. The word is said to be ca pable of three meanings: (1) The resolution of the directors to levy the assessment; (2) its notification to the persons liable to pay; (3) the time when it becomes payable. 4 Exch. 543. 4. In the language of the stock ex change, a "call" is an option to claim stock at a fixed price on a certain day. Bid. Stock Brok. 70. CALL OF THE HOUSE. Acall ot the names of all the members of a legislative body, made by the clerk in pursuance of a resolution requiring the attendance of mem bers. The names of absentees being thus ascertained, they are imperatively summoned (and, if necessary, compelled) to attend the session. CALLING A SUMMONS. In Scotch practice. See this described in Bell, Diet. CALLING THE JURY. Successively drawing out of a box into which they have been previously put the names of the jurors on the panels annexed to the nisi prius rec ord, and calling them over in the order in which they are so drawn. The twelve per sons whose names are first called, and who appear, are sworn as the jury, unless some just cause of challenge or excuse, with re spect to any of them, shall be brought for ward. CALLING THE PLAINTIFF. In practice. A formal method of causing a nonsuit to be entered. When a plaintiff or his counsel, seeing that sufficient evidence has not been given to maintain the issue, withdraws, the crier is ordered to call or demand the plaintiff, and if neither he, nor any person for him, appear, he is nonsuited, the jurors are dis charged without giving a verdict, the action is at an end, and the defendant recovers his costs. CALLING TO THE BAR. In English practice. Conferring the dignity or degree

CALENDAR MONTH. One of the months of the year as enumerated in the cal endar, — January, February, March, etc.,— without reference to the number of days it may contain; as distinguished from a lunar month, of twenty-eight days, or a month for business purposes, which may contain thirty, at whatever part of the year it occurs. CALENDAR OF CAUSES. In practice. A list of the causes instituted in the particu lar court, and now ready for trial, drawn up by the clerk shortly before the beginning of the term, exhibiting the titles of the suits, ar ranged in their order for trial, with the nat ure of each action, the date of issue, and the names of the counsel engaged; designed for the information and convenience of the court and bar. It is sometimes called the " trial iist," or "docket." CALENDAR OF PRISONERS. In English practice. A list kept by the sheriffs containing the names of all the prisoners in their custody, with the several judgments against each in the margin. Staundef. P. C. 182; 4B1. Comm. 403. CALENDS. Among the Romans the first day of every month, being spoken of by it self, or the very day of the new moon, which usually happen together. And if pridie, the day before, be added to it, then it is the last day of the foregoing month, as pridie calend. Septemb. is the last day of August. If any number be placed with it, it signifies that day in the former month which comes so much before the month named, as the tenth calends of October is the 20th day of September; for if one reckons backwards, beginning at Octo ber, that 20th day of September makes the 10th day before October. In March, May, July, and October, the calends begin at the sixteenth day, but in other months at the fourteenth; which calends must ever bear the name of the month following, and be numbered backwards from the first day of the said following months. Jacob. CALENDS, GREEK. A metaphorical expression for a time never likely to arrive. CALL. 1. In English law. The elec tion of students to the degree of barrister at law, hence the ceremony or epoch of election, and the number of persons elected. 2. In conveyancing. A visible natural object or landmark designated in a patent, entry, grant, or other conveyance of lands, as a limit or boundary to the land described, with which the points of surveying must

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