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  • CAYA
    In old English law. A quay, kay, key, or wharf. Cowell.
  • CAYAGIUM
    In old English law. Cay-age or kayage; a toll or duty anciently paid for landing goods at a quay or wharf. Cowell.
  • CEAP
    A bargain; anything for sale; a chattel; also cattle, as being the usual medium of barter. Sometimes used instead of ceapgild, (q. v.)
  • CEAPGILD
    Payment or forfeiture of an animal. An ancient species of forfeiture.
  • CEDE
    To yield up; to assign; to grant Generally used to designate the transfer of territory from one government to another. Goetz v. United States (C. C.) 103 Fed. 72; Baltimore v. Turnpike Road, 80 Md. 535, 31 Atl. 420; Somers v. Plerson, 16 N. J. Law, 181.
  • CEDENT
    In Scotch law. An assignor. One who transfers a chose in action.
  • CEDO
    I grant The word ordinarily used in Mexican conveyances to pass title to lands. Mulford v. Le Franc, 26 Cal. 88, 108.
  • CEDULA
    In old English law. A schedule. In Spanish law. An act under private signature, by which a debtor admits the amount of the debt, and binds himself to discharge the same on a specified day or on demand. Also the notice or citation affixed to the door of a fugitive More...
  • CEDULE
    In French law. The technical name of an act under private signature. Campbell v. Nicholson, 3 La. Ann. 458.
  • CELATION
    In medical jurisprudence. Concealment of pregnancy or delivery.
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