Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CABGAISON

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knew. Technical words in indictments tor rape, and held essential. 1 Hale, F. C. 637 639. CARNALLY KNEW. In pleading. A technical phrase essential in an indictment to charge the defendant with the crime of rape. CARNO. In old English law. An im munity or privilege. Cowell. CAROOME. In English law. A license by the lord mayor of London to keep a curt. CARFEMEALS. Cloth made in the northern parts of England, of a coarse kind* mentioned in 7 Jac. I. c. 16. Jacob. CARRERA. In Spanish law. A car riage-way; the right of a carriage-way. Las. Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 31,1. 3. CARRIAGE. A vehicle used for the transportation of persons either for pleasure or business, and drawn by horses or other draught animals over the ordinary street* and highways of the country; not including cars used exclusively upon railroads or street railroads expressly constructed for the use of such cars. 63 Wis. 97, 23 N. W. Rep. 425;. 8 Kan. 84; 47 N. Y. 122; 46 N. H. 523; 5 Q. B. Div. 176. The act of carrying, or a contract for trans portation of persons or goods. The contract of carriage is a contract for the conveyance of property, persons, or mes sages from one place to another. Civil Code Cal. § 2085; Civil Code Dak. § 1208. CARRICLE, or CARRACLE. A ship of great burden. CARRIER. One who undertakes to transport goods from one place to another. I Pars. Cont. 632. One who carries or agrees to carry the goods of another, from one place to another, for hire, or without hire. Carriers are either common or private. Private carriers are persons who undertake for the transportation in a particular instance only, not making it their vocation, nor hold ing themselves out to the public as ready to act for all who desire their services. To bring a person within the description of a common carrier, he must exercise it as & public employment; he must undertake to carry goods for persons generally; and he must hold himself out as ready to transport goods for hire, as a business, not as a casual occupation, pro hao vice.

CARGAISON. In French commercial Jaw. Cargo; lading. CARGARE. In old English law. To ebarge. Spelman. CARGO. In mercantile law. The load or lading of a vessel; goods and merchandise put on board a ship to be carried to a cer tain port. The lading or freight of a ship; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a ship or other merchant vessel. See 1 Mason, 142; 4 Pick. 429; 9 Mete. (Mass.) 366; 103 Mass. 406. A cargo is the loading of a ship or other vessel, the bulk of which is to be ascertained from the capacity of the ship or vessel. The word embraces all that the vessel is capable of carrying. 3 Rob. (N. Y.) 173. The term may be applied in such a sense as to include passengers, as well as freight, but in a technical sense it designates goods only. CARIAGIUM. In old English law. Car riage; the carrying of goods or other things for the king. CARISTIA. Dearth, scarcity, dearness. Cowell. CARK. In old English law. A quantity of wool, whereof thirty make a sarplar. (The latter is equal to 2,240 pounds in weighty St. 27 Hen. VI. c. 2. Jacob. CARLISLE TABLES. Life and annu ity tables, compiled at Carlisle, England, about 1780. Used by actuaries, etc. CARMEN. In the Boman law. liter ally, a verse or song. A formula or form of words used on various occasions, as of di vorce. Tayl. Civil Law, 349. CARNAL. Of the body; relating to the body; fleshly; sexual. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE. The act of a man in having sexual bodily connection with a woman. Carnal knowledge and sexual intercourse held equivalent expressions. 22 Ohio St. 541. From very early times, in the law, as in common speech, the meaning of the words "carnal knowl edge" of a woman by a man has been sexual bodily connection; and these words, without more, have been used in that sense by writers of the highest authority on criminal law, when undertaking to give a full and precise definition of the crime of rape, the highest crime of this character. 97 Mass. 01. CARNALITER. In old criminal law. Carnally. Carnaliter cognovit, carnally

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