Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

"CARRY AWAY"

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particularly ordered to carry no cargo, am munition, or implements of war, except a single gun for the purpose of signals. Enc Lond. CABTMEN. Carriers who transport goods and merchandise in carts, usually for short distances, for hire. CARTULARY. A place where papers or records are kept. CABUCA, or CABUA. A plow. CABUCAGE. In old English law. A kind of tax or tribute anciently imposed upon every plow, (came or plow-land,) for the public service. Spelman. CABUCATA. A certain quantity of land used as the basis for taxation. As much land as may be tilled by a single plow in a year and a day. Also, a team of cattle, or a cart-load. CABUCATABITJS. One who held lands in carnage, or plow-tenure. Cowell. CABUE. A carve of land; piow-land. Britt. c. 84. CABVAGE. The same as carucage, (q. v,) Cowell. CARVE. In old English law. Acarn cate or plow-land. CAS FOBTUIT. Fr. In the law of in surance. A fortuitous event; an inevitable accident. CASATA. In old English law. A house with land sufficient for the support of one family. Otherwise called "hida," a hide of land, andbyBede, "familia." Spelman. CASATUS. A vassal or feudal tenant possessing a casata; that is, having a house, household, and property of his own. CASE. 1. A general term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity. A question contested before a court of jus tice. The primary meaning of "case" is "cause." When applied to legal proceedings, it imports a state of facts which furnishes occasion for the ex ercise of the jurisdiction of a court of justice. In its generic sense, the word includes all cases, spe cial or otherwise. 12 N. Y. 592, 596. 2. A statement of the facts involved in a transaction or series of transactions, drawn up in writing in a technical form, for sub mission to a court or judge for decision or opinion. Under this meaning of tbe term are included a "case made" for a motion for new trial, a "case reserved" on the trial of

*CABBY AWAY." A technical phrase in an indictment for larceny, translating the Lat. asportatit. 7 Gray, 45. CABBYING AWAY. In criminal law. Tbe act of removal or asportation, by which the crime of larceny is completed, and which is essential to constitute it. CABBYING AWAY INFANT FE MALES. See ABDUCTION. CABBYING COSTS. A verdict is said to carry costs when the party for whom the verdict is given becomes entitled to the pay ment of his costs as incident to such verdict. CABT. A carriage for luggage or burden, with two wheels, as distinguished from a wagon, which has four wheels. The vehicle in which criminals are taken to execution. This word, in its ordinary and primary ac ceptation, signifies a carriage with two wheels; yet it has also a more extended sig nification, and may mean a carriage in gen eral. 22 Ala. 624. CABT BOTE. Wood or timber which a tenant is allowed by law to take from an es tate, for the purpose of repairing instru ments, (including necessary vehicles,) of hus bandry. 2 Bl. Comm. 35. CABTA. In old English law. A char ter, or deed. Any written instrument. In Spanish law. A letter; a deed; a power of attorney. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 18, 1. 30. CABTA DE FOBESTA. In old En glish law. The charter of the forest. More commonly called " Charta de Foresta," (q. t>.) CABTE. In French marine law. A chart. CABTE BLANCHE. A white sheet of paper; an instrument signed, but otherwise left blank. A sheet given to an agent, with the principal's signature appended, to be filled up with any contract or engagement as the agent may see fit. Hence, metaphorical ly, unlimited authority. CABTEL. An agreement between two hostile powers for the delivery of prisoners or deserters. Also a written challenge to fight a duel. CABTEL-SHIP. A vessel commissioned in time of war to exchange the prisoners of any two hostile powers; also to carry any particular proposal from one to another. For this reason, the officer who commands her is

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