Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CELLERARIUS

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CENSUS

CELLERARIUS. A butler in a monas tery; sometimes in universities called "man ciple" or "caterer." CEMETERY. A place of burial, differ ing from a churchyard by its locality and in cidents,—by its locality, as it is separate and apart from any sacred building used for the performance of divine service; by its inci dents that, inasmuch as no vault or burying place in an ordinary churchyard can be pur chased for a perpetuity, in a cemetery a per manent burial pJace can be obtained. Whar ton. Six or more human bodies being buried at one place constitutes the place a cemetery. Pol. Code Cal. § 3106. CENDULiE. Small pieces of wood laid in the form of tiles to cover the roof of a house; shingles. Cowell. CENEGILD. In Saxon law. An ex piatory mulct or fine paid to the relations of a murdered person by the murderer or his relations. Spelman. CENELLiE. In old records. Acorns. CENNINGA. A notice given by a buyer to a seller that the things w hich had been sold were claimed by another, in order that he might appear and justify the sale. Blount; Whishaw. CENS. In French Canadian law. An annual tribute or due reserved to a seignior or lord, and imposed merely in recognition of his superiority. Guyot, Inst. c. 9. CENSARIA. In old English law. A farm, or house and land let at a standing rent. Cowell. CENSARII. In old English law. Farm ers, or such persons as were liable to pay a census, (tax.) Blount; Cowell. CENSITAIRE. In Canadian law. A tenant by cens, (q. v.) CENSIVE. In Canadian law. Tenure by cens, (q. v.) CENSO. In Spanish and Mexican law. An annuity. A ground ient. The right which a person acquires to receive a certain annual pension, for the.delivery which he makes to another of a determined sum of money or of an immovable thing. Civil Code Mex. art. 3206. See Schm. Civil Law, CENSERE. In the Roman law. dain; to decree. Dig. 50, 16, 111. Toor

149, 809; White, New Recop. bk. 2, c 7. § 4; 13 Tex. 655. CENSO CONSIGNATIVO. In Spanish and Mexican law. A censo (q. o.) is called "consignativo" when he who receives the money assigns for the payment of the pension (annuity) the estate the fee in which he re serves. Civil Code Mex. art. 3207. CENSO ENFITEUTICO. In Spanish and Mexican law. An emphyteutic annuity. That species of censo (annuity) which exists where there is a right to require of another a certain canon or pension annually, on ac count of having transferred to that person forever certain real estate, but reserving the fee in the land. The owner who thus trans fers the land is called the "censualisto," and the person who pays the annuity is called the "censatario." Hall, Mex. Law, § 756. CENSUALES. In old European law. A species of oblati or voluntary slaves of churches or monasteries; those who, to pro cure the protection of the church, bound themselves to pay an annual tax or quit-rent only of their estates to a church or monas tery. CENSUERE. In Roman law. They have decreed. The term of art, or technical term for the judgment, resolution, or decree of the senate. Tayl. Civil Law, 566. CENSUMETHIDUS, or CENSU MORTHZDUS. A dead rent, like that which is called "mortmain." Blount; Cowell. CENSURE. In ecclesiastical law. A spiritual punishment, consisting in with drawing from a baptized person (whether be longing to the clergy or the laity) a privilege which the church gives him, or in wholly ex pelling him from the Christian communion. The principal varieties of censures are ad monition, degradation, deprivation, excom munication, penance, sequestration, suspen sion. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1367. A custom observed in certain manors in Devon and Cornwall, where all persons above the age ot sixteen years are cited to swear fealty to the lord, and to pay lid. per poll, and Id. per annum. CENSUS. The official counting or enu meration of the people of a state or nation, with statistics of wealth, commerce, educa tion, etc. In Roman law. A numbering or enroll ment of the people, with a valuation of their fortunes.

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