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  • CARGAISON
    In French commercial law. Cargo; lading.
  • CARGARE
    In old English law. To charge. Spelman.
  • CARGO
    In mercantile law. The load or lading of a vessel; goods and merchandise put on board a ship to be carried to a certain port. The lading or freight of a ship; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a ship or other merchant vessel. Seamans v. Loring, 21 More...
  • CARIAGIUM
    In old English law. Carriage; the carrying of goods or other things for the king.
  • CARISTIA
    Dearth, scarcity, dearness. Cowell.
  • CARK
    In old English law. A quantity of wool, whereof thirty make a sarplar. (The latter is equal to 2,240 pounds in weight) St 27 Hen. VI. c. 2. Jacob.
  • CARLISLE TABLES
    Life and annuity tables, compiled at Carlisle, England, about 1780. Used by actuaries, etc.
  • CARMEN
    In the Roman law. Liter-ally, a verse or song. A formula or form of words used on various occasions, as of divorce. Tayl. Civil Law, 349.
  • CARNAL
    Of the body; relating to the body; fleshly; sexual. —Carnal knowledge. The act of a man in having sexual bodily connection with a woman. Carnal knowledge and sexual intercourse held equivalent expressions. Noble v. State, 22 Ohio St. 541. From very early times, in the law, as in common speech, More...
  • CARNALITER
    In old criminal law. Carnally. Carnaliter cognovit, carnally knew. Technical words in indictments for rape, and held essential. 1 Hale, P. C. 637639.
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