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  • CAT
    An instrument with which criminals are flogged. It consists of nine lashes of whip-cord, tied on to a wooden handle.
  • CATALLA
    In old English Law. Chattels. The word among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry, or, as they are still called, "cattle," but, In a secondary sense, the term was applied to all movables in general, and not only to these, but to whatever was not a fief or More...
  • CATALLIS CAPTIS NOMINE DISTRICTIONIS
    An obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and which warranted the taking of doors, windows, etc., by way of distress.
  • CATALLIS REDDENDIS
    For the return of the chattels; an obsolete writ that lay where goods delivered to a man to keep till a certain day were not upon demand redelivered at the day. Reg. Orig. 39.
  • CATALLUM
    A chattel. Most frequently used in the plural form, catalla, (q. v.)
  • CATALS
    Goods and chattels. See CATALLA.
  • CATANEUS
    A tenant in capite. A tenant holding immediately of the crown. Spelman.
  • CATASCOPUS
    An old name for ad archdeacon.
  • CATCHING BARGAIN
    See BARGAIN
  • CATCHINGS
    Things caught and in the possession, custody, power, and dominion of the party, with a present capacity to use them for his own purposes. The term includes blubber, or pieces of whale flesh cut from the whale, and stowed on or under the deck of a ship. A policy of More...
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