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  • CENSUMETHIDUS, OR CENSUMORTHIDUS
    A dead rent, like that which is called "mortmain." Blount; Cowell.
  • CENSURE
    In ecclesiastical law. A spiritual punishment, consisting in withdrawing from a baptized person (whether belonging to the clergy or the laity) a privilege which the church gives him, or in wholly expelling him from the Christian communion. The principal varieties of censures are admonition, degradation, deprivation, excommunication, penance, sequestration, suspension, More...
  • CENSUS
    The official counting or enumeration of the people of a state or nation, with statistics of wealth, commerce, education, etc. Huntington v. Cast 149 Ind. 255, 48 N. E. 1025; Republic v. Paris, 10 Hawaii, 581. In Roman law. A numbering or enrollment of the people, with a valuation of More...
  • CENSUS REGALIS
    In English law. The annual revenue or income of the crown.
  • CENT
    A coin of the United States, the least in value of those now minted. It is the one-hundreth part of a dollar. Its weight is 72 gr., and it is composed of copper and nickel In the ratio of 88 to 12.
  • CENTENA
    A hundred. A district or division containing originally a hundred freemen, established among the Goths, Germans, Franks, and Lombards, for military and civil purposes, and answering to the Saxon "hundred." Spelman; 1 Bl. Comm. 115. Also, in old records and pleadings, a hundred weight
  • CENTENARII
    Petty judges, under-sheriffs of counties, that had rule of a hundred, {centena,) and judged smaller matters among them. 1 Vent 211.
  • CENTENI
    The principal inhabitants of a centena, or district composed of different villages, originally in number a hundred, but afterwards only called by that name.
  • CENTESIMA
    In Roman law. The hundredth part. Usuriae centesimae. Twelve per cent, per annum; that is, a hundredth part of the principal was due each month,—the month being the unit of time from which the Romans reckoned interest. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note.
  • CENTIME
    The name of a denomination of French money, being the one-hundredth part of a franc.
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