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  • CENSUS
    The official counting or enumeration of the people of a state or nation, with statistics of wealth, commerce, education, etc. Huntington v. Cast 149 Ind. 255, 48 N. E. 1025; Republic v. Paris, 10 Hawaii, 581. In Roman law. A numbering or enrollment of the people, with a valuation of More...
  • CENSUS REGALIS
    In English law. The annual revenue or income of the crown.
  • CENT
    A coin of the United States, the least in value of those now minted. It is the one-hundreth part of a dollar. Its weight is 72 gr., and it is composed of copper and nickel In the ratio of 88 to 12.
  • CENTENA
    A hundred. A district or division containing originally a hundred freemen, established among the Goths, Germans, Franks, and Lombards, for military and civil purposes, and answering to the Saxon "hundred." Spelman; 1 Bl. Comm. 115. Also, in old records and pleadings, a hundred weight
  • CENTENARII
    Petty judges, under-sheriffs of counties, that had rule of a hundred, {centena,) and judged smaller matters among them. 1 Vent 211.
  • CENTENI
    The principal inhabitants of a centena, or district composed of different villages, originally in number a hundred, but afterwards only called by that name.
  • CENTESIMA
    In Roman law. The hundredth part. Usuriae centesimae. Twelve per cent, per annum; that is, a hundredth part of the principal was due each month,—the month being the unit of time from which the Romans reckoned interest. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note.
  • CENTIME
    The name of a denomination of French money, being the one-hundredth part of a franc.
  • CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
    An English court having jurisdiction for the trial of crimes and misdemeanors committed in London and certain adjoining parts of Kent, Essex, and Sussex, and of such other criminal cases as may be sent to it out of the king's bench, though arising beyond its proper Jurisdiction. It was constituted More...
  • CENTRAL OFFICE
    The central office of the supreme court of judicature in England is the office established in pursuance of the recommendation of the legal departments commission in order to consolidate the offices of the masters and associates of the common-law divisions, the crown office of the king's bench division, the record More...
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