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was formerly created by the king. 1 BL Comm. 473. CREANCE. In French law. A claim; a debt; also belief, credit, faith. CREANCER. One who trusts or gives credit; a creditor. Britt cc. 28, 78. CREANSOR. A creditor. CowelL CREATE. To bring into being; to cause to exist; to produce; as, to create a trust in lands, to create a corporation. Edwards v. Bibb, 54 Ala. 481; McClellan v. McClellan, 65 Me. 500. To create a charter or a corporation is to make one which never existed before, while to renew one is to give vitality to one which has been ^ forfeited or has expired; and to extend one is to give an existing charter more time than originally limited. Moers v. Reading, 21 Pa. 189; Railroad Co. v. Orton (O. G.) 32 Fed. 473; Indianapolis v. Navin, 151 Ind. 139, 51 N. B. 80, 41 L. R. A. 344. CREDENTIALS. In International law. The instruments which authorize and estab lish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are address ed. If the state or prince receive the min ister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. They are, as it were, his letter of attorney, his mandate patent, mandatum manifestum. Vattel, liv. 4, c. 6, § 76. CREDIBLE. Worthy of belief; entitled to credit. See COMPETENCY. —Credible person. One who is trustworthy and entitled to be believed; in law and legal proceedings, one who is entitled to have his oath or affidavit accepted as reliable, not only on account of his good reputation for veracity, but also on account of his intelligence, knowl edge of - the circumstances, and disinterested re lation to the matter in question. Dunn v. State, 7 Tex. App. 605; Territory v. Leary, 8 N. M. 180, 43 Pac. 688; Peck v. Chambers, 44 W. Va. 270, 28 S. E. 706.— Credible witness. One who, being competent to give evidence, is worthy of belief. Peck v. Chambers, 44 W. Va. 270, 28 S. E. 706; Savage v. Bulger (Ky.j 77 S. W. 717: Amory v. Fellowes, 5 Mass. 228; Ba con v. Bacon, 17 Pick. (Mass.) 134; Robinson v. Savage, 124 111. 266, 15 N. E. 850.—Cred ibility. Worthiness of belief; that quality in a witness which renders his evidence worthy of belief. After the competence of a witness is allowed, the consideration of his credibility arises, and not before. 3 Bl. Comm. 369; 1 Burrows, 414, 417; Smith v. Jones, 68 Vt. 132, 34 Atl. 424. As to the distinction between competency and credibility, see COMPETENCT. —Credibly informed. The statement in a pleading or affidavit that one is "credibly in formed and verily believes" such and such facts, means that, having no direct personal knowl edge of the matter in question, he has derived his information in regard to it from authentic sources or from the statements of persons who are not only "credible," in the sense of being trustworthy, but also informed as to the par ticular matter or conversant with it. CREDIT. 1. The ability of a business man to borrow money, or obtain goods on

vessels. The Wenonah, 21 Grat (Va.) 697; Reed v. Ingham, 3 El. & B. 898. 2. A trade or occupation of the sort re quiring skill and training, particularly man ual skill combined with a knowledge of the principles of the art; also the body of per sons pursuing such a calling; a guild. Gan ahl v. Shore, 24 Ga. 23. 3. Guile, artful cunning, trickiness. Not a legal term in this sense, though often used in connection with such terms as "fraud" and "artifice." CRANAGE. A liberty to use a crane for drawing up goods and wares of burden from ships and vessels, at any creek of the sea, or wharf, unto the land, and to make a profit of doing so. It also signifies the money paid and taken for the service. Tomlins. CRANK. A term vulgarly applied to a person of eccentric, ill-regulated, and un practical mental habits; a person half-craz ed; a monomaniac; not necessarily equiva lent to "insane person," "lunatic," or any other term descriptive of complete mental derangement, and not carrying any implica tion of homicidal mania. Walker y. Tri bune Co. (C. C.) 29 Fed. 827. CRASSUS. Large; gross; excessive; ex treme. Crassa ignorantta, gross ignorance. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 22, § 18. —Crassa negligentia. Gross neglect; ab sence of ordinary care and diligence. Hun v. Cary, 82 N. Y. 72, 37 Am. Rep. 546. Lat. On the morrow, the day after. The return-day of writs; because the first day of the term was always some saint's day, and writs were returnable on the day after. 2 Reeve, Bng. Law, 56. CRATES. An iron gate before a prison. 1 Vent. 304. CRAVE. To ask or demand; as to crave oyer. See OYEB. CRAVEN. In old English law. A word of disgrace and obloquy, pronounced on either champion, in the ancient trial by bat tle, proving recreant, *. e., yielding. Glanville calls it "infestum et inverecundum verbum" His condemnation was amittere liberam leg em, i. e., to become infamous, and not to be accounted liber et legalis homo, being sup posed by the event to have been proved for sworn, and not fit to be put upon a jury or admitted as a witness. Wharton. A foreign merchant, but generally taken for one who has a stall in a fair or market. Blount. CREAMUS. Lat We create. One of the words by which a corporation in England CRASTINO. CREAMER.