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defects in the way. Cornwell Y. Com'rs, 10 Exch. 771, 774. CAVEATOR. One who files a caveat. Cavendnm est a fragment!*. Beware of fragments. Bac. Aph. 26. CAVEEE. Lat. In the civil and common law. To take care; to exercise caution; to take care or provide for; to provide by law; to provide against; to forbid by law; to give security; to give caution or security on arrest. CAVERS. Persons stealing ore from mines in Derbyshire, punishable in the bergh mote or miners' court; also officers belong ing to the same mines. Wharton. CAYA. In old English law. A quay, kay, key, or wharf. Cowell. CAYAGIUM. In old English law. Cay age or kayage; a toll or duty anciently paid for landing goods at a quay or wharf. Cow ell. CEAP. A bargain; anything for sale; a chattel; also cattle, as being the usual medi um of barter. Sometimes used instead of ceapgild, {g. v.) CEAPGIIiD. Payment or forfeiture of an animal. An ancient species of forfeiture. CEDE. To yield up; to assign; to grant. Generally used to designate the transfer of territory from one government to another. Goetz v. United States (C. C.) 103 Fed. 72; Baltimore v. Turnpike Road, 80 Md. 535, 31 Atl. 420; Somers v. Pierson, 16 N. J. Law, 181. CEDENT. In Scotch law. An assignor. One who transfers a chose in action. CEDO. I grant. The word ordinarily used in Mexican conveyances to pass title to lands. Mulford v. Le Franc, 26 Cal. 88, 10& CEDULA. In old English law. A schedule. In Spanish, law. An act under private signature, by which a debtor admits the amount of the debt, and binds himself to dis charge the same on a specified day or on de mand. Also the notice or citation affixed to the door of'a fugitive criminal requiring him to appear before the court where the accusation is pending. CEDUI

CELDRA. In old English law, a chal dron. In old Scotch law, a measure of grain, otherwise called a "chalder." See 1 Karnes, Etj. 215. MARRIAGE. The formal act by which a man and woman take each other for husband and wife, accord ing to law; the solemnization of a marriage. The term is usually applied to a marriage cer emony attended with ecclesiastical functions. See Pearson v. Howey, 11 N. J. Law, 19. CELIBACY. The condition or state of life of an unmarried person. CEIXERARITTS. A butler In a monas tery; sometimes in universities called "man ciple" or "caterer." CEMETERY. A place of burial, differ ing from a churchyard by its locality and in cidents,—by its locality, as it is separate and apart from any sacred building used for the performance of divine service; by its inci dents that, inasmuch as no vault or burying place in an ordinary churchyard can be pur chased for a perpetuity, in a cemetery a per manent burial place can be obtained. Whar ton. See Winters v. State, 9 Ind. 174; Ceme tery Ass'n v. Board of Assessors, 37 La. Ann. 35; Jenkins v. Andover, 103 Mass. 104; Cem etery Ass'n v. New Haven, 43 Conn. 243, 21 Am. Rep. 643. Six or more human bodies being burled at one place constitutes the place a cemetery. Pol. Code Cal. § 3106. CENDUL^E. Small pieces of wood laid in the form of tiles to cover the roof of a house; shingles. Cowell. CENEGILD. In Saxon law. An expia tory mulct or fine paid to the relations of a murdered person by the murderer or his re lations. Spelman. CELEBRATION OF CENNINGA. A notice given by a buyer to a seller that the things which had been sold were claimed by another, in order that he might appear and justify the sale. Blount; Whishaw. CENS. In French Canadian law. An an nual tribute or due reserved to a seignior or lord, and imposed merely in recognition of his superiority. Guyot, Inst c. 9. CENSARIA. In old English law. A farm, or house and land let at a standing rent. Co well. CENSARII. In old English law. Farm ers, or such persons as were liable to pay a census, (tax.) Blount; Cowell. CENEIJLX. In old records. Acorns.