Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

DE CLERIUO ADMITTENDO

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DE CURIA CLAUDENDA

DE CLERICO ADMITTENDO. See A.DMITTENDO CLERICO. DE CLERICO CAPTO PER STATU TUM MERCATORIUM DELIBERAN DO. Writ for delivering a clerk arrested on a statute merchant. A writ for the deliv ery of a clerk out of prison, who had been taken and imprisoned upon the breach of a statute merchant. Reg. Orig. 1476. DE CLERICO CONVICTO DELIB ERANDO. See CLERICO COKVICTO, etc. DE CLERICO INFRA SACROS OR DINES CONSTITUTO NCN ELI GEN DO I N OFFICIUM. See CLEBICO IN- •RA SACROS, etc. D E C L E R O. Concerning the clergy. The title of the statute 25 Edw. III. St. 3; containing a variety of provisions on the sub ject of presentations, indictments of spiritual persons, and the like. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 378. DE COMBUSTIONE DOMORUM. Of house burning. One of the kinds of ap peal formerly in use in England. Bract, fol. 1466; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 38. DE COMMUNE DIVIDUNDO. For dividing a thing held in common. The name of an action given by the civil law. Mack eld. Rom. Law, § 499. DE COMON DROIT. L. Fr. Of com mon right; that is, by the common law. Co. Litt. 142a. DE COMPUTO. Writ of account. A writ commanding a defendant to render a reasonable account to the plaintiff, or show cause to the contrary. Reg. Oiig. 135-138; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 117, E. The foundation of the modern action of account. DE CONCILIO CURIAS. By the ad vice (or direction) of the court. DE CONFLICTU LEGUM. Concern ing the conflict of laws. The title of several works written on that subject. 2 Kent, Comm. 455. DE CONJUNCTIM FEOFFATIS. Concerning persons jointly enfeoffed, or seised. The title of the statute 34 Edw. L, which was passed to prevent the delay oc easioned by tenants in novel disseisin, and other writs, pleading that some one else was seised jointly with them. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 243.

DE CONSANGUINEO, and DE CON SANGUINITATE. Writs of cosmage, (q. v.) DE CONSILIO. In old criminal law. Of counsel; concerning counsel or advice to commit a crime. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 31, § 8. DE CONSILIO CVB1M. By the ad vice or direction of the court. Bract, fol. 3456. DE CONTINUANDO ASSISAM. Writ to continue an assise. Reg. Orig. 2176. DE CONTUMACE CAPIENDO. Writ for taking a contumacious person. A writ which issues out of the English court of chancery, in cases where a person has been pronounced by an ecclesiastical court to be contumacious, and in contempt. Shelf. Mar. & Div. 494-496, and notes. It is a commit ment for contempt. Id. DE COPIA LIBELLI DELIBERAN DA. Writ for delivering the copy of a libel. An ancient writ directed to the judge of a spiritual court, commanding him to deliver to a defendant a copy of the libel filed against him in such court. Reg. Orig. 58. The writ in the register is directed to the Dean of the Arches, and his commissary. Id. DE CORONATORE ELIGENDO. Writ for electing a coroner. A writ issued to the sheriff in England, commanding him to proceed to the election of a coroner, which is done in full county court, the freeholders being the electors. Sewell, Sheriffs, 372. DE CORONATORE EXONERANDO. Writ for discharging or removing a coroner. A writ by which a coioner in England may be removed from office for some cause there in assigned. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 163, 164; 1 Bl. Comm. 348. DE CORPORE COMITATUS. From the body of the county at large, as distin guished from a particular neighborhood, (de vicineto.) 3 Bl. Comm. 360. DE CORRODIO HABENDO. Writ for having a corody. A writ to exact a cor ody from a religious house. Reg. Orig. 264; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 230. See COBODY. DE CURIA CLAUDENDA. An obso lete writ, to require a defendant to fence in his court or land about his house, where it was left open to the injury of his neighbor's freehold. 1 Crabb, Real Prop. 314; 6 Mass. 90.

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