KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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CURTESY

CURIA CLAUDENDA

CURIA CLAUDENDA. The name of a writ to compel another to make a fence or wall, which he was bound to make, between his land and the plaintiff's. Reg. Orig. 155. Now obsolete. Curia parliament! suis propriis legibua subsistit. 4 Inst 50. The court of parlia ment is governed by its own laws. Curtesy. Also the privileges, prerogatives, or, perhaps, retinue, of a court Curiosa et captiosa interpretatio in lege reprobatur. A curious [overnice or subtle] and captious interpretation is repro bated in law. 1 Bulst 6. CURNOCK. In old English law. A meas ure containing four bushels or half a quar ter of corn. Cowell; Blount Coined money and such bank-notes or other paper money as are au thorized by law and do in fact circulate from hand to hand as the medium of exchange. Griswold v. Hepburn, 2 Duv. (Ky.) 33; Leon ard v. State, 115 Ala. 80, 22 South. 564; Insurance Co. v. Keiron, 27 111. 505; Insur ance Co. v. Kupfer, 28 111. 332, 81 Am. Dec. 284; Lackey v. Miller, 61 N. C 26. Running; now in transit; whatever is at present in course of passage; as "the current month." When applied to money, it means "lawful;" current money is equivalent to lawful money. Wharton v. Morris, 1 Dall. 124, 1 L. Ed. 65. —Current account. An open, running, or unsettled account between two parties. Tuck er v. Quimby, 37 Iowa, 19; Franklin v. Camp, 1 N. J. Law, 196; Wilson v. Calvert, 18 Ala. 274.— Current expenses. Ordinary, regular, and continuing expenditures for the mainte nance of property, the carrying on of an office, municipal government, etc. Sheldon v. Purdy, 17 Wash. 135, 49 Pac. 228; State v. Board of Education, 68 N. J. Law, 496, 53 Atl. 236; Babcock v. Goodrich, 47 Cal. 510.— Current funds. This phrase means gold or silver, or something equivalent thereto, and convertible at pleasure into coined money. Bull v. Bank, 123 U. S. 105, 8 Sup. Ct. 62, 31 L. Ed. 97; Lacy v. Holbrook, 4 Ala. 90; Haddock v. Woods, 46 Iowa, 433.— Current money. The currency of the country; whatever is intended to and does actually circulate as currency; every species of coin or currency. Miller v. McKinney, 5 Lea (Tenn.) 96. In this phrase the adjective "current" is not synonymous with "convertible." It is employed to describe mon ey which passes from hand to hand, from per son to person, and circulates through the com munity, and is generally received. Money is current which is received as money in the com mon business transactions, and is the common medium in barter and trade. Stalworth v. Blum, 41 Ala. 321.— Current price. This term means the same as "market value." Cases of Champagne, 23 Fed. Cas. 1168.— Current value. The current value of imported com modities is their common market price at the place of exportation, without reference to the price actually paid by the importer. Tappan CURIALITY. In Scotch law. CURRENCY. CURRENT.

v. U. S., 23 Fed. Cas. 690.— Current wages. Such as are paid periodically, or from time to time as the services are rendered or the work is performed; more particularly, wages for the current period, hence not including such as are past-due. Sydnor v. Galveston, (Tex. App.) 15 S. W. 202; Bank v. Graham (Tex. App.) 22 S. W. 1101; Bell v. Live Stock Co. (Tex.) 11 S. W. 346, 3 L. R. A. 642.— Current year. The year now running. Doe v. Dobell, 1 Adol. & El. 806; Clark v. Lancaster County, 69 Neb. 717, 96 N. W. 593. CURRICULUM. The year ; of the course of a year; the set of studies for a particular period, appointed by a university. L. Lat. It runs upon four feet; or, as some times expressed, it runs upon all fours. A phrase used in arguments to signify the en tire and exact application of a case quoted. "It does not follow that they run quatuor pedibus." 1 W. Bl. 145. Currit tempus contra desides et sui juris contemptores. Time runs against the slothful and those who neglect their rights. Bract fols. 1006, 101. An officer of the court of exchequer, who is appointed by pat ent under the great seal to be one of the bar ons of the exchequer. The office was abol ished by St. 19 & 20 Vict c. 86. Clerks in the chancery of fice, whose duties consisted in drawing up those writs which were of coiirse, de cursu, whence their name. They were abolished by St. 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 82. Spence, Eq. Jur. 238; 4 Inst. 82. CURRIT QUATUOR PEDIBUS. CURSITOR BARON. CURSITORS. Cursus curiae est lex curiae. 3 Bulst 53. The practice of the court is the law of the court The estate to which by com mon law a man is entitled, on the death of his wife, in the lands or tenements of which she was seised in possession in fee-simple or in tail during her coverture, provided they have had lawful issue born alive which might have been capable of inheriting the estate. It is a freehold estate for the term of his natural life. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 127; 2 Bl. Coram. 126; Co. Litt 30a; Dozier v. Toalson, 180 Mo. 546, 79 S. W. 420, 103 Am. St. Rep. 586; Valentine v. Hutchinson, 43 Misc. Rep. 314, 88 N. Y. Supp. 862; Redus v. Hayden, 43 Miss. 614; Billings v. Baker, 28 Barb. (N. Y.) 343; Templeton v. Twitty, 88 Tenn. 595, 14 S. W. 435; Jackson v. JohP- CURTESY. CURSO. In old records. A ridge. Cur sones terrce, ridges of land. Cowell. CURSOR. An inferior officer of the pa pal court