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  • CHIMINUS
    The way by which the king and all his subjects and all under his protection have a right to pass, though the property of the soil of each side where the way lieth may belong to a private man. Cowell.
  • CHIMNEY MONEY, OR HEARTH MONEY
    A tax upon chimneys or hearths; an ancient tax or duty upon houses in England, now repealed.
  • CHIPPINGAVEL
    In old English law. A tax upon trade; a toll imposed upon traffic, or upon goods brought to a place to be sold.
  • CHIRGEMOT, GHIRCHGEMOT
    In Saxon law. An ecclesiastical assembly or court Spelman. A synod or meeting in a church or vestry. 4 Inst 321.
  • CHIROGRAPH
    In old English law. A deed or indenture; also the last part of a fine of land. An instrument of gift. or conveyance attested by the subscription and crosses of the witnesses, which was in Saxon times.called "chirographum," and which, being somewhat changed in form and manner by the Normans, More...
  • CHIROGRAPHA
    In Roman law. Writings emanating from a single party, the debtor.
  • CHIROGRAPHER OF FINES
    In English law. The title of the officer of the common pleas who engrossed fines in that court so as to be acknowledged into a perpetual record. CowelL
  • CHIROGRAPHUM
    In Roman law. A handwriting; that which was written with a person's own hand. An obligation which a person wrote or subscribed with his own hand; an acknowledgment of debt, as of money received, with a promise to repay. An evidence or voucher of debt; a security for debt Dig. More...
  • CHIRURGEON
    The ancient denomination of a surgeon.
  • CHIVALRY
    In feudal law. Knight-service. Tenure In chivalry was the same as tenure by knight-service. 2 Bl. Comm. 61, 62.
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