Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CATHOLIC CREDITOR

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extravagant rate, to an heir or any one who has an estate in reversion or expectancy, to be repaid on the vesting of his interest; or a similar unconscionable bargain with such person for the purchase outright of his ex pectancy. CATCHINGS. Things caught, and in the possession, custody, power, and dominion of the party, with a present capacity to use them for his own purposes. The term in cludes blubber, or pieces of whale flesh cut from the whale, and stowed on or under the deck of a ship. A policy of insurance upon outfits, and catchings substituted for the out fits, in a whaling voyage, protects the blubber. 1 Story, 603; 4 Law Rep. 297. CATCHLAND. Land in Norfolk, so called because it is not known to what parish it belongs, and the minister who first seizes the tithes of it, by right of preoccupation, en joys them for that year. Cowell. CATCHPOLL. A name formerly given to a sheriff's deputy, or to a constable, or other officer whose duty it is to arrest per sons. He was a sort of serjeant. The word is not now in use as an official designation. Minshew. CATEGORICAL. A term of logic, mean ing direct; unqualified; unconditional. CATEGORY. In logic. A series or or der of all the predicates or attributes contained under a genus. CATER COUSIN. A expression used to designate a very distant relation. CATHEDRAL. In English ecclesiastical law. The church of the bishop of the dio cese, in which is his cathedra, or throne, and his special jurisdiction; in that respect the principal church of the diocese. CATHEDRAL PREFERMENTS. In English ecclesiastical law. All deaneries, archdeaconries, and canonries, and generally all dignities and offices in any cathedral or collegiate church, below the rank of a bishop. CATHEDRATIC. In English ecclesias tical law. A sum of 2s. paid to the bishop by the inferior clergy; but from its being usually paid at the bishop's synod, or visita tion, it is commonly named synodals. Whar ton. CATHOLIC CREDITOR. In Scotch law. A creditor whose debt is secured on all or several distinct parts of the debtor's prop erty. Bell.

Casus omissus pro omisso habendus est. A case omitted is to be held as (inten tionally) omitted. Tray. Lat. Max. 67. CAT. An instrument with which crimi nals are flogged. It consists of nine lashes of whip-cord, tied on to a wooden handle. CATALLA. In old English law. Chat tels. The word among the Normans prima rily signified only beasts of husbandry, or, as they are still called, "cattle," but, in a sec ondary sense, the term was applied to all movables in general, and not only to these, bnt to whatever was not a fief or feud. Wharton. Catalla juste possessa amitti non pos sunt. Chattels justly possessed cannot be lost. Jenk. Cent. 28. CATALLA OTIOSA. Dead goods or chattels, as distinguished from animals. Idle cattle, that is, such as were not used for working, as distinguished from beasts of the plow; called also animalia otiosa. Bract, fols. 217, 2176; 3 Bl. Coram. 9. Catalla reputantur inter minima in lege. Chattels are considered in law among the least things. Jenk. Cent. 52. CATALLACTICS. The science of polit ical economy. CATALLIS CAPTIS NOMINE DIS TRICTIONIS. An obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and which war ranted the taking of doors, windows, etc., by way of distress. CATALLIS REDDENDIS. For the re turn of the chattels; an obsolete writ that lay where goods delivered to a man to keep till a certain day were not upon demand re delivered at the day. Beg. Orig. 39. CATALLUM. A chattel. Most frequent ly used in the plural form, catalla, (q. v.) CATALS. Goods and chattels. See CA TALLA. CATANEUS. A tenant in capite. A tenant holding immediately of the crown. Spelman. CATAFULTA. A catapult. A warlike engine to shoot darts; a cross-bow. CATASCOPUS. An old name for an archdeacon. CATCHING BARGAIN. A bargain by which money is loaned, at an extortionate or

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