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  • CHECKER
    The old Scotch form of exchequer.
  • CHEFE
    In Anglo-Norman law. Were or wereglld; the price of the head or person, (capitis pretium.)
  • CHEMERAGE
    In old French law. The privilege or prerogative of the eldest A provincial term derived from chemier, (q. v.) Guyot, Inst
  • CHEMIER
    In old French law. The eldest born. A term used in Poitoh and other places. Guyot, Inst.
  • CHEMIN
    Fr. The road wherein every man goes; the king's highway.
  • CHEMIS
    In old Scotch law. A chief dwelling or mansion house.
  • CHEVAGE
    A sum of money paid by villeins to their lords in acknowledgment of their bondage. Chevage seems also to have been used for a sum of money yearly given to a man of power for his countenance and protection as a chief or leader. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.
  • CHEVANTIA
    In old records. A loan or advance of money upon credit Cowell.
  • CHEVISANCE
    An agreement or composition ; an end or order set down between a creditor or debtor; an indirect gain in point of usury, etc.; also an unlawful bargain or contract. Wharton.
  • CHEVITIAE
    In old records. Pieces of ground, or heads at the end of plowed lands. Cowell.
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