Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CELIBACY

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CAVEAT

mote or miners' court; also officers belong ing to the same mines. Wharton. CAYA. In old English law. A quay, kay, key, or wharf. Cowell. CAYAGITJM. In old English law. Cay age or kayage; a toll or duty anciently paid for landing goods at a quay or wharf. Cow ell. CEAF. A bargain; anything for sale; a chattel; also cattle, as being the usual medi um of barter. Sometimes used instead of ceapgild, (q. t>.) CEAPGILD. Payment or forfeiture of an animal. An ancient species of forfeit ure. CEDE. To yield up; to assign; to grant. Generally used to designate the transfer of territory from one government to another. CEDENT. In Scotch law. An assignor. One who transfers a chose in action. CEDO. I grant. The word ordinarily used in Mexican conveyances to pass title to lands. 26 Cal. 88, 108. CEDTTLA. In old English law. A schedule. In Spanish law. An act under private signature, by which a debtor admits the amount of the debt, and binds himself to dis charge the same on a specified day or on de mand. Also the notice or citation affixed to the door of a fugitive criminal requiring him to appear before the court where the accusation is pending. CEDULE. In French law. The technic al name of an act under private signature* 3 La. Ann. 458. CELATION. In medical jurisprudence. Concealment of pregnancy or delivery. CELDRA. In old English law, a chat dron. In old Scotch law, a measure of grain, otherwise called a "chalder." See 1 Kames, Eq. 215. CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE. The formal act by which a man and woman take each other for husband and wife, accord ing to law; the solemnization of a marriage. The term is usually applied to a marriage cer emony attended with ecclesiastical functions. CELIBACY. The condition or state of life of an unmarried person.

an appeal* to prevent the grant of letters patent, etc. It is also used, in the American practice, as a kind of equitable process, to stay the granting of a patent for lands. In patent law. A caveat is a formal written notice given to the officers of the pat ent-office, requiring them to refuse letters patent on a particular invention or device to to any other person, until the party filing the caveat (called the "caveator") shall have an opportunity to establish his claim to priority of invention. CAVEAT ACTOR. Let the doer, or actor, beware. CAVEAT EMPTOR. Let the buyer take care. This maxim summarizes the rule that the purchaser of an article must examine, judge, and test it for himself, being bound to discover any obvious defects or imperfec tions. Hob. 99; Co. Litt. 102a. Caveat emptor, qui ignorare non deb uit quod jus alienum emit. Hob. 99. Let a purchaser beware, who ought not to be ignorant that he is purchasing the rights of another. CAVEAT VENDITOR. In Roman law. A maxim, or rule, casting the respon sibility for defects or deficiencies upon the seller of goods, and expressing the exact op posite of the common law rule of caveat emp tor. See 18 Wend. 449. In English and American jurispru dence. Caveat venditor is sometimes used as expressing, in a rough way, the rule which governs all those cases of sales to which caveat emptor does not apply. CAVEAT VIATOR. Let the traveler beware. This phrase has been used as a con cise expression of the duty of a traveler on the highway to use due care to detect and avoid defects in the way. 10 Exch. 771, 774. CAVEATOR. One who files a caveat. Cavendum est a fragmentis. Beware of fragments. Bac. Aph. 26. CAVERE. In the civil and common law. To take care; to exercise caution; to take ^are or provide for; to provide by law; to provide against; to forbid by law; to give security; to give caution or security on ar rest. CAVERS. Persons stealing ore from •mines in Derbyshire, punishable in the bergh

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