Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CRIEZ LA PEEZ

CREDITOR, JUDGMENT

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CREPARE OCTTLUM. In Saxon law. To put out an eye; which had a pecuniary punishment of fifty shillings annexed to it. CREPUSCULUM. Twilight. In the law of burglary, this term means the presence of sufficient light to discern the face of a man; such light as exists immediately before the rising of the sun or directly after its set ting. Crescente malitia" crescere debet et pcena. 2 Inst. 479. Vice increasing, pun ishment ought also to increase. CREST. A term used in heraldry; it sig nifies the devices set over a coat of arms. CRETINUS. In old records. A sudden stream or torrent; a rising or inundation. CRETIO. Lat. In the civil law. A certain number of days allowed an heir to de liberate whether he would take the inherit ance or not. Calvin. CREW. The aggregate of seamen who man a ship or vessel, including the master and officers; or it may mean the ship's com pany, exclusive of the master, or exclusive of the master and all other officers. See 3 Sum. 209, et seq. CREW LIST. In maritime law. A list of the crew of a vessel; one of a ship's pa pers. This instrument is required by act of congress, and sometimes by treaties. Rev. St. U. S. §§ 4374, 4375. It is necessary for the protection of the crews of every vessel, in the course of the voyage, during a war abroad. Jac Sea Laws, 66, 69, note. CRIER. An officer of a court, who makes proclamations. His piincipal duties are to announce the opening of the couit and its adjournment and the fact that certain special matters are about to be transacted, to an nounce the admission of persons to the bar, to call the names of jurors, witnesses, and parties, to announce that a witness has been sworn, to proclaim silence when so directed, and generally to make such proclamations of a public nature as the judges order. CRIEZ LA PEEZ. Rehearse the con cord, or peace. A phrase used in the an cient proceedings for levying fines. It was the form of words by which the justice be fore whom the parties appeared directed the Serjeant or countor in attendance to recite or read aloud the concord or agreement between the parties, as to the lands intended to bp con veyed. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 224, 225.

CBEDITOR, JUDGMENT. One who has obtained a judgment against his debtor, under which he can enforce execution. CREDITORS' BILL. In English prac tice. A bill in equity, filed by one or more creditors, for an account of the assets of a de cedent, and a legal settlement and distribu tion of his estate among themselves and such other creditors as may come in under the de cree. In American practice. A proceeding to enforce the security of a judgment creditor against the property or interests of his debt or. This action proceeds upon the theory that the judgment is in the nature of a lien, such as may be enforced in equity. A creditors' bill, stiictly, is a bill by which a creditor seeks to satisfy his debt out of some equitable estate of the defendant, which is not liable to levy and sale under an execution at law. But there is another sort of a cred itors' bill, very nearly allied to the former, by means of which a party seeks to remove a fraudulent conveyance out of the way of his execution. But a naked bill to set aside a fraudulent deed, which seeks no discovery of any property, chose in action, or other thing alleged to belong to the defendant, and which ought to be subjected to the payment of the judgment, is not a creditors' bill. 52 111.98. Creditorum appellatione non hi tan tum accipiuntur qui pecuniam credider unt, sed omnes quibus ex qualibet causa debetur. Under the head of "creditors" are included, not alone those who have lent mon ey, but all to whom from any cause a debt is owing. Dig. 50, 16, 11. CREDITRIX. A female creditor. CREEK. In maritime law. Such little inlets of the sea, whether within the precinct or extent of a port or without, as are narrow passages, and have shore on either side of them. Call. Sew. 56. A small stream less than a river. 12 Pick. 184. The term imports a recess, cove, bay, or inlet in the shore of a river, and not a sepa rate or independent stream; though it is sometimes used in the latter meaning. 38 N. Y. 103. CREMENTUM COMITATUS. The in crease of a county. The sheriffs of counties anciently answered in their accounts for the improvement of the king's rents, above the viscontiel rents, under this title.

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