Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CHIEF JUSTICIAE

CHECK

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stantly on demand. 2 Daniel, Neg. Inst. § 1566. A check is a bill of exchange drawn upon a bank or banker, or a person described as such upon the face thereof, and payable on demand, without interest. Civil Code Cal. § 3254; Civil Code Dak. § 1933. A check differs from an ordinary bill of ex change in the following particulars: (1) It is drawn on a bank or bankers, and is payable imme diately on presentment, without any days of grace. (3) It is payable immediately on presentment, and no acceptance as distinct from payment is re quired. (8) By its terms it is supposed to be drawn upon a previous deposit of funds, and is an abso lute appropriation of so much money in the hands of the bankers to the holder of the check, to re main there until called for, and cannot after no tice be withdrawn by the drawer. 2 Story, 502; 8 Bush, 357. CHECK-BOOK. A book containing blank checks on a particular bank or banker, with an inner margin, called a "stub," on which to note the number of each check, its amount and date, and the payee's name, and a memorandum of the balance in bank. CHECK-ROLL. In English law. A list or book, containing the names of such as are attendants on, or in the pay of, the queen or other great personages, as their household servants. CHECKER. The old Scotch form of ex chequer. CHEFE. In Anglo-Norman law. Were or weregild; the price of the head or person, (capitis pretium.) CHEMERAGE. In old French law. The privilege or perogative of the eldest. A provincial term derived from chemier, (q. v.) Guyot, Inst. CHEMIER. In old French law. The eld est born. A term used in Poitou and other places. Guyot, Inst. CHEMIN. The road wherein every man goes; the king's highway. CHEMIS. In old Scotch law. A chief dwelling or mansion house. CHEVAGE. A sum of money paid by villeins to their lords in acknowledgment of their bondage. Chevage seems also to have been used for a sum of money yearly given to a man of power for his countenance and protection as a chief or leader. Termes de la Ley; Co well. CHEVANTIA. In old records. A loan or advance of money upon credit. Cowell.

CHEVISANCE. An agreement or com position; an end or order set down between a creditor or debtor; an indirect gain in point of usury, etc.; also an unlawful bargain or contract. Wharton. CHEVITI^S. In old records. Pieces of ground, or heads at the end of plowed lands. Cowell. CHEZE. A homestead or homesfall which is accessory to a house. CHICANE. Swindling; shrewd cunning. The use of tricks and artifice. CHIEF. Principal; leading; head; emi nent in power or importance; the most im portant or valuable of several. Declaration in chief is a declaration for the principal cause of action. 1 Tidd, Pr. 419. Examination in chief is the first exam ination of a witness by the party who pro duces him. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 445. CHIEF BARON. The presiding judge of the English court of exchequer; answer ing to the chief justice of other courts. 8 Bl. Comm. 44; 3 Steph. Comm. 401. CHIEF CLERK. The principal clerical officer of a bureau or department, who is gen erally charged, subjeet to the direction of hii superior officer, with the superintendence of the administration of the business of the of fice. CHIEF JUDGE. The judge of the Lon don bankruptcy court is so called. CHIEF JUSTICE. The presiding, eld est, or principal judge of a court of justice. CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND. The presiding judge in the queen's bench division of the high court of justice, and, in the absence of the lord chancellor, president of the high court, and also an ex officio judge of the court of appeals. The full title is "Lord Chief Justice of England." CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COM MON PLEAS. In England. The presid ing judge in the court of common pleas, and afterwards m the common pleas division of the high court of justice, and one of the «s officio judges of the high court of appeal. C H I E F JUSTICIAR. In old English law. A high judicial officer and special mag istrate, who presided over the aula regis of the Norman kings, and who was also the princi pal minister of state, the second man in the

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