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  • CATALLIS CAPTIS NOMINE DISTRICTIONIS
    An obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and which warranted the taking of doors, windows, etc., by way of distress.
  • CATALLIS REDDENDIS
    For the return of the chattels; an obsolete writ that lay where goods delivered to a man to keep till a certain day were not upon demand redelivered at the day. Reg. Orig. 39.
  • CATALLUM
    A chattel. Most frequently used in the plural form, catalla, (q. v.)
  • CATALS
    Goods and chattels. See CATALLA.
  • CATANEUS
    A tenant in capite. A tenant holding immediately of the crown. Spelman.
  • CATASCOPUS
    An old name for ad archdeacon.
  • CATCHING BARGAIN
    See BARGAIN
  • CATCHINGS
    Things caught and in the possession, custody, power, and dominion of the party, with a present capacity to use them for his own purposes. The term includes blubber, or pieces of whale flesh cut from the whale, and stowed on or under the deck of a ship. A policy of More...
  • CATCHLAND
    Land in Norfolk, so called because it is not known to what parish it belongs, and the minister who first seizes the tithes of it by right of preoccupation, enjoys them for that year. Cowell.
  • CATCHPOLL
    A name formerly given to a sheriff's deputy, or to a constable, or other officer whose duty it is to arrest persons. He was a sort of Serjeant The word is not now in use as an official designation. Mlnshew.
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