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CENTRALIZATION

ments commission in order to consolidate the offices of the masters and associates of the common-law divisions, the crown ofhce of the king's bench division, the record and writ clerk's report, and enrollment offices of the chancery division, and a few others. The central office is divided into the follow ing departments, and the business and staff of the office are distributed accordingly: (1) Writ, appearance, and judgment; (2) sum mons and order, for the common-law divis ions only; (3) filing and record, including the old chancery report office; (4) taxing, for the common-law divisions only; (5) enroll ment; (6) judgments, for the registry of judgments, executions, etc.; (7) bills of sale; (8) married women's acknowledgments;- (9) king's remembrancer; (10) crown office; and (11) associates. Sweet. CENTRALIZATION. This word is used to express the system of government pre vailing in a country where the management of local matters is in the hands of function aries appointed by the ministers of state, paid by the state, and in constant communication and under the constant control and inspira tion of the ministers of state, and where the funds of the state are largely applied to local purposes. Wharton. In Roman law. The name of an important court consisting of a body of one hundred and five judges. It was made up by choosing three representatives from each of the thirty-five Roman tribes. The judges sat as one body for the trial of certain important or difficult questions, (call ed, "causce centumvirales") but ordinarily they were separated into four distinct tri bunals. CENTURY. One hundred. A body of one hundred men. The Romans were divid ed into centuries, as the English were divided into hundreds. Also a cycle of one hundred years. CEORIi. In Anglo Saxon law. The free men were divided into two classes,—thanes and ceorls. The thanes were the proprietors of the soil, which was entirely at their dis posal. The ceorls were men personally free, but possessing no landed property. Guizot, Rep. Govt A tenant at will of free condition, who held land of the thane on condition of paying rent or services. Cowell. A freeman of inferior rank occupied in husbandry. Spelman. CEPI. Lat. I have taken. This word was of frequent use in the returns of sheriffs when they were made in Latin, and particu larly in the return to a writ of capias. The full return, (in Latin) to a writ of capias was commonly made in one of the following CENTUMVIRI.

forms: Cepi corpus, I have taken the body, L e., arrested the body of the defendant; Cepi corpus et bail, I have taken the body and re leased the defendant on a bail-bond; Cept cor pus et commitMur, I have taken the body and he has been committed (to prison); Cepi corpus et est in custodta, I have taken the defendant and he is in custody; Cept corpus et est lan~ ffuidus, I have taken the defendant and he is sick, i. e., so sick that he cannot safely be re moved from the place where the arrest was made; Cepi corpus et paratum habeo, I have taken the body and have it (him) ready, i. e., in custody and ready to be produced when ordered. He took. This was the characteristic word employed in (Latin) writs of trespass for goods taken, and in declarations in trespass and replevin. Replevin in the cepit is a form of replevin which is brought for carrying away goods merely. Wells, Repl. § 53. In criminal practice. This was a tech nical word necessary in an indictment for larceny. The charge must be that the de fendant took the thing stolen with a felo nious design. Bac. Abr. "Indictment," G, 1. —Cepit et abduxit. He took and led away. The emphatic words in writs in trespass or in dictments for larceny, where the thing taken was a living chattel, •. e., an animal.— Cepit et asportavit. He took and carried away. Ap plicable in a declaration in trespass or an in dictment for larceny where the defendant has carried away goods without right. 4 Bl. Comm. 231.— Cepit in alio loco. In pleading. A plea in replevin, by which the defendant alleges that he took the thing replevied in another place than that mentioned in the declaration. 1 Chit. PI. 490. CEPPAGIUM. In old English law. The stumps or roots of trees which remain in the ground after the trees are felled. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 41, § 24. CERA, or CERE. In old English law. Wax; a seal. CERA IMPRESSA. Lat. An impressed seal. It does not necessarily refer to an impression on wax, but may include an im pression made on wafers or other adhesive substances capable of receiving an impres sion, or even paper. Pierce v. Indseth, 106 U. S. 546, 1 Sup. Ct 418, 27 L. Ed. 254. CERAGRUM. In old English law. A payment to provide candles in the church. Blount. CEREVISIA. In old English law. Ale or beer. CERT MONET. In old English law. Head money or common fine. Money paid yearly by the residents of several manors to the lords thereof, for the certain keeping of the leet, (pro certo letwf) and sometimes to the hundred. Blount; 6 Coke, 78. Certa debet esse intentio, et narratio, et certum fnndamentnm, et certa res CEPIT. In civil practice.