Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CAMPBELL'S (LORD) ACTS

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CAMBIST. In mercantile law. A per son skilled in exchanges; one who trades in promissory notes and bills of exchange. CAMBIUM. In the civil law. Change or exchange. A term applied indifferently to the exchange of land, money, or debts. Cambium reale or manuale was the term gen erally used to denote the technical common-law ex change of lands; cambium locale, mercantile, or trajectitium, was used to designate the modern mercantile contract of exchange, whereby a man agrees, in consideration of a sum of money paid him in one place, to pay a like sum in another place. Poth. de Change, n. 12; Story, Bills, § 2, et seq. CAMERA. In old English law. A chamber, room, or apartment; a judge's chamber; a treasury; a chest or coffer. Al so, a stipend payable from vassal to lord; an annuity. CAMERA REGIS. In old English law. A chamber of the king; a place of peculiar privileges especially in a commercial point of view. CAMERA SCACCARII. The old name of the exchequer chamber, (q. v.) CAMERA STELLATA. The star chan> ber, (q. t>.) CAMERALISTICS. The science of finance or public revenue, comprehending the means of raising and disposing of it. CAMERARIUS. A chamberlain; a keeper of the public money; a treasurer. Also a bailiff or receiver. CAMINO. In Spanish law. A road or highway. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 2,1. 6. CAMPANA. In old European law. A bell. Spelman. CAMPANA BAJULA. A small hand bell used in the ceremonies of the Romish church; and, among Protestants, by sextons, parish clerks, and criers. CoweJl. CAMPANARIUM, CAMPANILE. A belfry, bell tower, or steeple; a place where bells are hung. Spelman; Townsh. PI. 191, 213. CAMPARTUM. A part of a larger field or ground, which would otherwise be in gross or in common. CAMPBELL'S (LORD) ACTS. En glish statutes, for amending the practice in prosecutions for libel, 9 & 10 Viet. c. 93; al so 6 & 7 Viet. c. 96, providing for compensa tion to relatives in the case of a person hav

of barrister at law upon a member of one of the inns of court. Holthouse. CALLING UPON A PRISONER. When a prisoner has been found guilty on an indictment, the clerk of the court addresses him and calls upon him to say why judgment should not be passed upon him. CALPES. In Scotch law. A gift to the head of a clan, as an acknowledgment for protection and maintenance. CALUMNIA. In the civil law. Cal umny, malice, or ill design; a false accusa tion; a malicious prosecution. In the old common law. A claim, de mand, challenge to jurors. CALUMNL3E JURAMENTUM. In the old canon law. An oath similar to the calumnice jusjurandum, (q. v.) CALUMNIA JUSJURANDUM. The oath of calumny. An oath imposed upon the parties to a suit that they did not sue or defend with the intention of calumniating, (calumniandi animo,) i. e., with a malicious design, but from a firm belief that they had a good cause. Inst. 4, 16. CALUMNIATOR. In the civil law. One who accused another of a crime without cause; one who brought a false accusation. Cod. 9, 46. CALUMNY. Defamation; slander; false accusation of a crime or offense. "There was a word called 'calumny' in the civil law, which signified an unjust prosecution or defense of a suit, and the phrase is said to be still used m the courts of Scotland and the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts of Eng land, though we do not find cases of the kind in the reports." 80 Ohio St. 117. CAMARA. In Spanish law. A treasury. Las Partidas, pt. 6, tit. 3, 1. 2. The exchequer. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 8, c. 1. CAMBELLANUS, or CAMBELLA RIUS. A chamberlain. Spelman. CAMBIATOR. In old English law. An exchanger. Cambiatores monetce, exchan gers of money; money-changers. CAMBIO. In Spanish law. Exchange. Schm. Civil Law, 148. CAMBIPARTIA. Champerty; from campus, a field, and partus, divided. Spel man. CAMBIPARTICEPS. A champertor.

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