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  • CELDRA
    In old English law, a chaldron. In old Scotch law, a measure of grain, otherwise called a "chalder." See 1 Karnes, Eq. 215.
  • CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE
    The formal act by which a man and woman take each other for husband and wife, according to law; the solemnization of a marriage. The term is usually applied to a marriage ceremony attended with ecclesiastical functions. See Pearson v. Howey, 11 N. J. Law, 19.
  • CELIBACY
    The condition or state of life of an unmarried person.
  • CELLERARIUS
    A butler in a monastery ; sometimes in universities called "manciple" or "caterer."
  • CEMETERY
    A place of burial, differing from a churchyard by its locality and incidents.—by its locality, as it is separate and apart from any sacred building used for the performance of divine service; by its incidents that, inasmuch as no vault or burying-place In an ordinary churchyard can be purchased for More...
  • CENDULAE
    Small pieces of wood laid in the form of tiles to cover the roof of a house; shingles. Cowell.
  • CENEGILD
    In Saxon law. An expiatory mulct or fine paid to the relations of a murdered person by the murderer or his relations. Spelman.
  • CENELLAE
    In old records. Acorns.
  • CENNINGA
    A notice given by a buyer to a seller that the things which had been sold were claimed by another, in order that he might appear and Justify the sale. Blount; Whishaw
  • CENS
    In French Canadian law. An annual tribute or due reserved to a seignior or lord, and imposed merely in recognition of his superiority. Guyot, Inst. c. 9.
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