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  • CRANK
    A term vulgarly applied to a person of eccentric,, ill-regulated, and unpractical mental habits; a person half-crazed; a monomaniac; not necessarily equivalent to "insane person," "lunatic," or any other term descriptive of complete mental derangement, and not carrying any implication of homicidal mania. Walker v. Tribune Co. (C. C.) 29 More...
  • CRASSUS
    Large; gross; excessive; extreme. Cra&tta ignore ntia, gross ignorance. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 22, § 1& —Crassa neglig-entia. ' Gross neglect; ab-' sence of ordinary care and diligence. Hun v. Cary, 82 N. Y. 72, 37 Am. Rep. 540.
  • CRASTINO
    Lat On the morrow, the day after. The returnrday 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, Eng. Law, 50.
  • CRATES
    An iron gate before a prison. 1 Vent. 304.
  • CRAVE
    To ask or demand; as to crave oyer. See OYER.
  • CRAVEN
    In old English law. A word of disgrace and obloquy, pronounced on either champion, in the ancient trial by battle, proving recreant, t. e., yielding. Glanville (alls it "infcstum et inverecundum verbum'* His condemnation was amittere liberam legem, i. e.t to become infamous, and not to be accounted liber et More...
  • CREAMER
    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 was formerly created by the kiug,: 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.
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