KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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CHANGE

CHARACTER

CHANGE. 1. An alteration; substitu tion of one thing for another. This word does not connote either improvement or de terioration as a result. In this respect it dif fers from amendment, which, in law, always imports a change for the better. 2. Exchange of money against money of a different denomination. Also small coin. Al so an abbreviation of exchange. —Change of venue. Properly speaking, the removal of a suit begun in one county or dis trict to another county or district for trial, though the term is also sometimes applied to the removal of a suit from one court to anoth er court of the same county or district. Dud ley v. Power Co., 139 Ala. 453, 36 South. 700; Felts v. Railroad Co., 195 Pa. 21, 45 Atl. 493; State v. Wofford, 119 Mo. 375, 24 S. W. 764. CHANGER. An officer formerly belong ing to the king's mint, in England, whose business was chiefly to exchange coin for bullion brought in by merchants and others. CHANNEL. This term refers rather to the bed in which the main stream of a river flows than to the deep water of the stream as followed in navigation. Bridge Co. v. Du buque County, 55 Iowa, 558, 8 N. W. 443. See The Oliver (D. C.) 22 Fed. 849; Iowa v. Il linois, 147 U. S. 1, 13 Sup. Ct. 239, 37 L. Ed. 55; Cessill v. State, 40 Ark. 504. The "main channel" of a river is that bed of *he river over which the principal volume of router flows. Many great rivers discharge them selves into the sea through more than one chan nel. They all, however, have a main channel, through which the principal volume of water passes. Packet Co. v. Bridge Co. (C. C.) 31 Fed. Rep. 757. —Natural channel. The channel of a stream AS determined by the natural conformation of the country through which it flows; that is, the bed over which the waters of the stream flow when not in any manner diverted or interfered with by man. See Larrabee v. Cloverdale, 131 Cal. 96, 63 Pac. 143. CHANTER. The chief singer In the choir of a cathedral. Mentioned in 13 Eliz. c. 10. CHANTRY. A church or chapel endowed with lands for the maintenance of priests to say mass daily for the souls of the donors. Termes de la Ley; Cowell. CHAPEXJ. A place of worship; a lesser or inferior v church, sometimes a part of or subordinate to another church. Webster. Rex v. Nixon, 7 Car. & P. 442. —Chapel of ease. In English ecclesiastical Jaw. A. chapel founded in general at some pe riod later than the parochial church itself, and designed for the accommodation of such of the parishioners as, in course of time, had begun to fix their residence at some distance from its site; and so termed because built in aid of the original church. 3 Steph. Comm. 151.—Private chapel. Chapels owned by private persons, and used by themselves and their families, are called "private," as opposed to chapels of ease, which are built for the accommodation of par ticular districts within a parish, in ease of the original parish church. 2 Steph. Comm. 745.— Proprietary chapels. In English law.

Those belonging to private persons who have purchased or erected them with a view to profit or otherwise.—Public chapels. In English law, are chapels founded at some period later than the church itself. They were designed for the accommodation of such of the parishioners as in course of time had begun to fix their res idence at a distance from its site; and chapels so circumstanced were described as "chapels of ease," because built in aid of the original church. 3 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 745. CHAPEIJRY. The precinct and limits of a chapel. The same thing to a chapel as a parish is to a church. Cowell; Blount CHAPERON. A hood or bonnet ancient ly worn by the Knights of the Garter, as part of the habit of that order; also a little escutcheon fixed in the forehead of horses drawing a hearse at a funeral. Wharton. CHAPITRE. A summary of matters to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, justices of assise, or of the peace, In their sessions. Also articles delivered by the justice in his charge to the inquest. Brit. c. lii. CHAPLAIN. An ecclesiastic who per forms divine service in a chapel; but it more commonly means one who attends upon a king, prince, or other person of quality, for the performance of clerical duties in a pri vate chapel. 4 Coke, 90. A clergyman officially attached to a ship of war, to an army, (or regiment,) or to some public institution, fpr the purpose of per forming divine service. Webster. An itinerant vendor of small wares. A trader who trades from place to place. Say. 191, 192. CHAPTER. In ecclesiastical law. A congregation of ecclesiastical persons in a cathedral church, consisting of canons, or prebendaries, whereof the dean is the head, all subordinate to the bishop, to whom they act as assistants in matters relating to the church, for the better ordering and disposing the things thereof, and the confirmation of such leases of the temporalty and offices re lating to the bishopric, as the bishop shall make from time to time. And they are term ed "capitulum," as a kind of head, instituted not only to assist the bishop in manner aforesaid, but also anciently to rule and govern the diocese in the time of vacation. Burn, Diet. CHARACTER. The aggregate of the moral qualities which belong to and distin guish an individual person; the general re sult of the one's distinguishing attributes. That moral predisposition or habit, or ag gregate of ethical qualities, which is believed to attach to a person, on the strength of the common opinion and report concerning him. The opinion generally entertained of a per- CHAPMAN.