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with statistics of wealth, commerce, educa tion, etc. Huntington v. Cast, 149 Ind. 255, 48 N. E. 1025; Republic v. Paris, 10 Hawaii, 581. In Roman law. A numbering or enroll ment of the people, with a valuation of their fortunes. In old European law. A tax, or tribute; a tolL Montesq. Esprit des Lois, liv. 30, a 14. CENSUS REGALIS. In English law. The annual revenue or income of the crown. CENT. A coin of the United States, the least in value of those now minted. It is the one-hundreth part of a dollar. Its weight is 72 gr., and it is composed of copper and nickel in the ratio of 88 to 12. CENTENA. A hundred. A district or division containing originally a hundred free men, established among the Goths, Germans, Franks, and Lombards, for military and civil purposes, and answering to the Saxon "hun dred." Spelman; 1 Bl. Comm. 115. Also, in old records and pleadings, a hun dred weight. CENTENARII. Petty judges, under-sher iffs of counties, that had rule of a hundred, (centena,) and judged smaller matters among them. 1 Vent 211. CENTENI. The principal inhabitants of a centena, or district composed of different villages, originally in number a hundred, but afterwards only called by that name. CENTESIMA. In Roman law. The hun dredth part. Usuries centesimce. Twelve per cent, per annum; that is, a hundredth part of the prin cipal was due each month,—the month being the unit of time from which the- Romans reckoned interest. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note. CENTIME. The name of a denomination of French money, being the one-hundredth part of a franc CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. An English court having jurisdiction for the trial of crimes and misdemeanors committed in London and certain adjoining parts of Kent, Essex, and Sussex, and of such other criminal cases as may be sent to it out of the king's bench, though arising beyond its proper jurisdiction. It was constituted by the acts 4 & 5 Wm. IV. c. 36, and 19 & 20 Vict c. 16, and superseded the "Old Bailey." CENTRAL OFFICE. The central office of the supreme court of judicature in Eng land is the office established in pursuance of the recommendation of the legal depart-

CENSERE. In the Roman law. To or dain ; to decree. Dig. 50, 16, 111. CENSITAIRE. In Canadian law. A ten ant by cens, (q. v.) CENSIVE. In Canadian law. Tenure by cens, (q. v.) CENSO. In Spanish and Mexican law. An annuity. A ground rent The right which a person acquires to receive a certain annual pension, for the delivery which he* makes to another of a determined sum of money or of an immovable thing. Civ. Code Mex. art. 3206. See Schm. Civil Law, 149, 309; White, New Recop. bk. 2, c. 7, § 4. —Censo al quitar. A redeemable annuity; otherwise called "censo redimible." Trevino v. Fernandez, 13 Tex. 630.—Censo consignati TO. A censo (q. v.) is called "consxgnattvo" when he who receives the money assigns for the payment of the pension (annuity) the estate the fee in which he reserves. Civ. Code Mex. art. 3207.—Censo enfitentico. Ini Spanish and Mexican law. An emphyteutic annuity. That species of censo (annuity) which exists where there is a right to require of another a certain canon or pension annually, on account of having transferred to that person forever cer tain real estate, but reserving the fee in the land. The owner who thus transfers the land is called the "censualtsto," and the person who pays the annuity is called the "censatario." Hall, Mex. Law, § 756; Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 557. CENSUALES. In old European law. A species of oblati or voluntary slaves of churches or monasteries; those who, to pro cure the protection ot the church, bound themselves to pay an annual tax or quit-rent only of their estates to a church or monas tery. CENSUERE. In Roman law. They have decreed. The term of art, or technical term for the judgment, resolution, or decree of the senate. Tayl. Civil Law, 566. CENSU MORTHIDUS. A dead rent, like that which Is called "mortmain." Blount; Cowell. CENSURE. In ecclesiastical law. A spiritual punishment, consisting in withdraw ing from a baptized person (whether be longing to the clergy or the laity) a privilege which the church gives him, or in wholly ex pelling him from the Christian communion. The principal varieties of censures are ad monition, degradation, deprivation, excom munication, penance, sequestration, suspen sion. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1367. A custom observed in certain manors in Devon and Cornwall, where all persons above the age of sixteen years are cited to swear fealty to the lord, and to pay lid. per poll, and id. per annum. CENSUS. The official counting or enu meration of the people of a state or nation, CENSUMETHIDUS, or