Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CLERICI, ETC.

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CLAUSUM

plied with the law, and is duly authorized to depart. CLEABING-. The departure of a vessel from port, after complying with the customs and health laws and like local regulations. In mercantile law. A method of mak ing exchanges and settling balances, adopted among banks and bankers. CLEABING-HOUSE. An institution organized by the banks of a city, where their messengers may meet daily, adjust balances of accounts, and receive and pay differences. CLEMENTINES. In canon law. The collection of decretals or constitutions of Pope Clement V., made by order of John XXII., his successor, who published it in 1317. CLEMENT'S INN. An inn of chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY. CLENGE. In old Scotch law. To clear or acquit of a criminal charge. Literally, to cleanse or clean. CLEF AND CALL. In old Scotch practice. A solemn form of words prescribed by law, and used in criminal cases, as in pleas of wrong and unlaw. CLEBGY. The whole body of clergymen or mimsteis of religion. Also an abbrevia tion for "benefit of clergy." CLEBGYABLE. In old English law. Admitting of clergy, or benefit of clergy. A clergyable felony was one of that class in which clergy was allowable. 4 Bl. Gomtu. 371-373. CLEBICAL. Pertaining to clergymen; or pertaining to the office or labor of a clerk. CLEBICAL ERROR. A mistake in writing or copying; the mistake of a clerk or writer. 1 Ld. Eaym. 183. CLERICAL TONSUBE. The having the head shaven, which was formerly pecul iar to clerks, or persons in orders, and which the coifs worn by Serjeants at law are sup posed to have been introduced to conceal. 1 Bl. Courni. 24, note t; 4 Bl. Comm. 367. CLEBICALE PBIVILEGIUM. In old English law. The clerical privilege; the privilege or benefit of clergy. CLEBICI DE CANCELLABIA. Clerks of the chancery. Clerici non ponantur in offloiis. Co. Litt. 96. Clergymen should not be placed in offices; i. e. t in secular oliices. See Lofft, 508.

CLAUSUM. Close, closed op, sealed. Inclosed, as a parcel of land. CLAUSUM FBEGIT. L. Lat. (He broke the close.) In pleading and practice. Technical words formerly used in certain actions of trespass, and still retained in the phrase quart clausum fregit, (q. ©.) CLAUSUM PASCHIiE. In English law. The morrow of the utas, or eight days of Easter; the end of Easter; the Sunday after Easter-day. 2 Inst. 157. CLAUSUBA. In old English law. An inclosure. Clausura heyce, the inclosure of a hedge. Cowell. CLAVES CUBIJE. The keys of the court. They were the officers of the Scotch courts, such as clerk, doomster, and Serjeant. Burrill. CLAVES INSUL.ZE. In Manx law. The keys of the Island of Man, or twelve persons to whom all ambiguous and weighty causes are referred. CLAVIA. In old English law. A club or mace; tenure per serjeantiam clavice, by the serjeanty ot the club or mace. Cowell. CLAVIGEBATUS. A treasurer of a church. CLAWA. A close, or small inclosure. Cowell. CLEAN HANDS. It is a rule of equity that a plaintiff must come with "clean hands," i. e., he must be free from reproach in his conduct. But there is this limitation to the rule: that his conduct can only be excepted to in respect to the subject-matter of his claim; everything else is immaterial. CLEAB. In a devise of money for the purchase of an annuity, this term means free from taxes. 2 Atk. 376. In the phrase "clear yearly value," clear means free from all outgoings like a rent charge, as losses by tenants and management, to which a rent charge is not liable. 2 Ves. 499. CLEAB DAYS. If a certain number of clear days be given for the doing of any act, the time is to be reckoned exclusively, as well of the first day as the last. CLEABANCE. In maritime law. A document in the nature of a certificate given by the collector of customs to an outward bound vessel, to the effect that she has com

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