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  • CERTIFICATION OF ASSISE
    In English practice. A writ anciently granted for the re-examining or retrial of a matter passed by assise before justices, now entirely superseded by the remedy afforded by means of a new trial.
  • CERTIFICATS DE COTUME
    In French law. Certificates given by a foreign lawyer, establishing the law of the country to which he belongs upon one or more fixed points. These certificates can be produced before the French courts, and are received as evidence in suits upon questions of foreign law. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, More...
  • CERTIFIED CHECK
    In the practice of bankers. This is a depositor's check recognized and accepted by the proper officer of the bank as a valid appropriation of the amount specified to the payee named, and as drawn against funds of such depositor held by the bank. The usual method of certification is More...
  • CERTIFIED COPY
    A copy of a document, signed and certified as a true copy by the officer to whose custody the original is intrusted. Doremus v. Smith, 4 N. J. Law, 143; People v. Foster. 27 Misc. Rep. 576, 58 N. Y. Supp. 574; Nelson v. Blakey, 54 Ind. 36.
  • CERTIORARI
    Lat. (To be informed of, to be made certain in regard to.) The name of a writ issued by a superior court directing an inferior court to send up to the former some pending proceeding, or all the record and proceedings in a cause before verdict, with its certificate to More...
  • CERTIORARI, BILL OF
    In English chancery practice. An original bill praying relief. It was filed for the purpose of removing a suit pending in some inferior court of equity into the court of chancery, on account of some alleged incompetency or inconvenience. Certum est quod ccrtum reddl potest. That is certain which can More...
  • CERURA
    A mound, fence, or inclosure.
  • CERVISARII
    In Saxon law. Tenants who were bound to supply drink for their lord's table, Cowell.
  • CERVISIA
    Ale, or beer. Sometimes spelled "cerevisia."
  • CERVISIARIUS
    In old records. An ale-house keeper. A beer or ale brewer. Blount.
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