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CADUCARY. Relating to or of the na ture of escheat forfeiture, or confiscation, 2 Bl. Comm. 245. C2EHTJA. In the civil and old common law. Kept for cutting; intended or used to be cut. A term applied to wood. CiESAR. In the Roman law. A cogno men in the Gens Julia, which was assumed by the successors of Julius. Tayl. Civil Law, 31. CESAREAN OPERATION. A surgical operation whereby the foetus, which can nei ther make its way into the world by the or dinary and natural passage, nor be extracted by the attempts of art, whether the mother and foetus be yet alive, or whether either of them be dead, is, by a cautious and well timed operation, taken from the mother, with a view to save the lives of both, or either of them. This consists in making an incision into the abdomen and uterus of the mother and withdrawing the foetus thereby. If this operation be performed after the mother's death, the husband cannot be tenant by the curtesy; since his right begins from the birth of the issue, and is consummated by the death of the wife; but if mother and child are sav ed, then the husband would be entitled after her death. Wharton. C2ETERUS. Lat. Other; another; the rest. —Caeteris paribus. Other things being equal. —Caeteris tacentibus. The others being si lent ; the other judges expressing no opinion. Comb 186.— Caeterorum. When a limited ad ministration has been granted, and all the prop erty cannot be administered under it, adminis tration coeterorum (as to the residue) may be granted. CAHIER. In old French law. A list of grievances prepared for deputies in the states general. A petition for the redress of griev ances enumerated. CAIRNS' ACT. An English statute for enabling the court of chancery to award dam ages. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 27. CALABOOSE. A term used vulgarly, and occasionally in judicial proceedings and law reports, to designate a jail or prison, partic uarly a town or city jail or lock-up. Suppos ed to be a corruption of the Spanish calabozo, a dungeon. See Gilham v. Wells, 64 Ga. 194. CALCETUM, CALCEA. A causeway, or common hard-way, maintained and repair ed with stones and rubbish. CAXE. In old French law. A punish ment of sailors, resembling the modern "keel hauling." CALEFAGIUM. In old law. A right to take fuel yearly. CowelL

or used In submarine telegraphy, (see 25 Stat. 41 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3586].) CABLISH. Brush-wood, or more prop erly windfall-wood. CACHEPOLUS, or CACHEREIXAS. An inferior bailiff, or catchpoll. Jacob. CACHET, LETTRES DE. Letters is sued and signed by the kings of France, and countersigned by a secretary of state, author izing the imprisonment of a person. Abol lished during the revolution of 1789. CACICAZGOS. In Spanish-American law. Property entailed on the caciques, or heads of Indian villages, and their descendants. Schm. Civil Law, 309. CADASTRE. In Spanish law. An official statement of the quantity and value of real property in any district, made for the pur pose of justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. 12 Pet. 428, note. CADASTU. In French law. An official statement of the quantity and value of realty made for purposes of taxation; same as ca dastre, (q. v.) CADAVER. A dead human body; a corpse. Cadaver nullius in bonis, no one can have a right of property in a corpse. 3 Co. Inst 110, 2 Bl. Comm. 429; Griffith v. Rail road Co., 23 S. C. 32, 55 Am. Rep. 1. Lat. To end; cease; fail. As in the phrases cadit actio, (or T>reve,) the action (or writ) fails; cadit assisa, the as sise abates; cadit qucestio, the discussion ends, there is no room for further argument. To be changed; to be turned into. Cadit assisa in juratum, the assise is changed into a jury. CADET. In the United States laws, students in the military academy at West Point are styled "cadets;" students in the naval academy at Annapolis, "cadet midship men." Rev. St. §§ 1309, 1512 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, pp. 927, 1042). In England. The younger son of a gen tleman; particularly applied to a volunteer In the army, waiting for some post Jacob. CADI. The name of a Turkish civil mag istrate. CADIT. Lat. It falls, abates, fails, ends, ceases. See CADEEE. CADUCA. In the civil law. Property of an inheritable quality; property such as de scends to an heir. Also the lapse of a testa mentary disposition or legacy. Also an es cheat; escheated property. BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)— 11 CADERE.