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acted as inspectors of elections, and who counted the votes given. Tayl. Civil Law, 193. In old English law. Keepers; guard ians; conservators. Custodes pads, guardians of the peace. 1 Bl. Comm. 349. CUSTODES LIBERTATIS ANGLI2E AUCTORITATE PARLIAMENTI. The style in which writs and all judicial process es were made out during the great revolution, from the execution of King Charles I. till Oliver Cromwell was declared protector. CUSTODIA LEGIS. In the custody of the law. Stockwell y. Robinson, 9 Houst

son, 5 Cow. (N. Y.) 74, 15 Am. Dec. 433; Byan y. Freeman, 36 Miss. 175. Initiate and consummate. Curtesy ini tiate is the interest which a husband has in his wife's estate after the birth of issue capable of inheriting, and before the death of the wife; after her death, it becomes an estate "by the curtesy consummate." Wait v. Wait, 4 Barb. (N. Y.) 206; ChurcEill v. Hudson (O. C.) 34 Fed. 14; Turner v. Heinberg, 30 Ind. App, 615, 65 N. E. 294. CURTEYN. The name of King Edward the Confessor's sword. It is said that the point of it was broken, as an emblem of mercy. (Mat Par. in Hen. III.) Wharton. CURTILAGE. The inclosed space of ground and buildings immediately surround ing a dwelling-house. In its most comprehensive and proper legal signification, it includes all that space of ground and buildings thereon which is usually inclosed within the general fence immediately surround ing a principal messuage and outbuildings, and fard closely adjoining to a dwelling-house, but t may be large enough for cattle to be levant and couchant therein. 1 Chit Gen. Pr. 175. The curtilage of a dwelling-house is a space, necessary and convenient and habitually used for the family purposes, and the carrying on of domestic employments. It includes the garden, if there be one, and it need not be separated from other lands by fence. State v. Shaw, 31 Me. 623; Com. v. Barney, 10 Cush. (Mass.) 480; Derrickson v. Edwards, 29 N. J. Law, 474, 80 Am. Dec. 220. The curtilage is the court-yard in the front or rear of a house, or at its side, or any piece of ground lying near, inclosed and used with, the house, and necessary for the convenient occu pation of the house. People v. Gedney, 10 Hun (N. Y.) 154. In Michigan the meaning of curtilage has been extended to include more than an inclosure near the house. People v. Taylor, 2 Mich. 250. CURTILES TERRJE. In old English law. Court lands. Cowell. See COXTBT LANDS. CURTHXIUM. A curtilage; the area or space within the inclosure of a dwelling house. Spelman. CURTIS. A garden; a space about a house; a house, or manor; a court, or pal ace; a court of justice; a nobleman's resi dence. Spelman. CUSSORE. A term used in Hindostan for the discount or allowance made in the exchange of rupees, iu contradistinction to tatta, which is the sum deducted. Enc. Lond. OUSTA, CUSTAGIUM, CUSTANTIA. Costs. CUSTODE ADMITTENDO, CUSTODE AMOVENDO. Writs for the admitting and removing of guardians. CUSTODES. In Roman law. Guard dians; observers; inspectors. Persons who