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  • CENSARIA
    In old English law. A farm, or house and land let at a standing rent. Cowell.
  • CENSARII
    In old English law. Farmers, or such persons as were liable to pay a census, (tax.) Blount; Cowell.
  • CENSERE
    In the Roman law. To ordain; to decree. Dig. 50, 16, 111.
  • CENSITAIRE
    In Canadian law. A tenant by cena, (q. v.)
  • CENSIVE
    In Canadian law. Tenure by cena, (q. v.)
  • CENSO
    In Spanish and Mexican law. An annuity. A ground rent. The right which a person acquires to receive a certain annual pension, for the delivery which he makes to another of a determined sum of money or of an immovable thing. Civ. Code Mex. art 3206. See Schm. Civil Law, More...
  • CENSUALES
    In old European law. A species of oblati or voluntary slaves of churches or monasteries; those who, to procure the protection of the church, bound themselves to pay an annual tax or quit-rent only of their estates to a church or monastery.
  • CENSUERE
    In Roman law. They have decreed. The term of art, or technical term for the judgment, resolution, or decree of the senate. Tayl. Civil Law, 566.
  • CENSUMETHIDUS, OR CENSUMORTHIDUS
    A dead rent, like that which is called "mortmain." Blount; Cowell.
  • CENSURE
    In ecclesiastical law. A spiritual punishment, consisting in withdrawing from a baptized person (whether belonging to the clergy or the laity) a privilege which the church gives him, or in wholly expelling him from the Christian communion. The principal varieties of censures are admonition, degradation, deprivation, excommunication, penance, sequestration, suspension, More...
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