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CLARE CONSTAT
(It dearly appears.) In Scotch law. The name of a precept for giving seisin of lands to an heir ; so called from Its Initial words: Ersk. Inst 3, 8, 7L

(It dearly appears.) In Scotch law. The name of a precept for giving seisin of lands to an heir ; so called from Its Initial words: Ersk. Inst 3, 8, 7L Less...
CLAREMETHEN
In old Scotch law. The warranty of stolen cattle or goods; the law regulating such warranty. Skene.

In old Scotch law. The warranty of stolen cattle or goods; the law regulating such warranty. Skene. Less...
CLARENDON, CONSTITUTIONS OF
The constitutions of Clarendon were certain statutes made in the reign of Henry II. of England, at a parliament held at Clarendon, (A. D. 1164,) by which the king checked the power of the pope and his clergy, and greatly narrowed the exemption they claimed from secular jurisdiction. 4 Bl. More...

The constitutions of Clarendon were certain statutes made in the reign of Henry II. of England, at a parliament held at Clarendon, (A. D. 1164,) by which the king checked the power of the pope and his clergy, and greatly narrowed the exemption they claimed from secular jurisdiction. 4 Bl. Comm. 422. Less...
CLARIFICATIO
Lat. In old Scotch law. A making clear; the purging or clearing (clenging) of an assise. Skene.

Lat. In old Scotch law. A making clear; the purging or clearing (clenging) of an assise. Skene. Less...
CLASS
The order or rank according to which persons or things are arranged or assorted. Also a group of persons or things, taken collectively, having certain qualities in common, and constituting a unit for certain purposes; e. g„ a class of legatees. In re Harpke, 116 Fed. 297, 54 C. C More...

The order or rank according to which persons or things are arranged or assorted. Also a group of persons or things, taken collectively, having certain qualities in common, and constituting a unit for certain purposes; e. g„ a class of legatees. In re Harpke, 116 Fed. 297, 54 C. C A. 97; Swarts v. Bank, 117 Fed. 1, 54 C. C. A. 387; Farnam v. Farnam, 53 Conn. 261, 2 Atl. 325, 5 Ati. 682; Dulany v. Middleton, 72 Md. 67, 19 Atl. 146; In re Russell, 168 N. Y. 169, 61 N. E. 166. —Class legislation. A term applied to statutory enactments which divide the people or subjects of legislation into classes, with reference either to the grant of privileges or the imposition of burdens, upon an arbitrary, unjust, or invidious principle of division, or which, though the principle of division may be sound and justifiable, make arbitrary discriminations between those persons or things coming within the same class. State v. Garbroski, 111 Iowa, 496, 82 N. W. 959, 56 L. R. A. 570, 82 Am. St Rep. 524; In re Hang Kie, 69 Cal. 149, 10 Pac. 327; Hawkins v. Roberts, 122 Ala. 180. 27 South. 327; State v. Cooley, 56 Minn. 540, 58 N. W. 150; Wagner v. Milwaukee County, 112 Wis. 601, 88 N. W. 577; State v. Brewing Co., 104 Tenn. 715, 59 S. W. 1033, 78 Am. St Rep. 941. Less...
CLASSIARIUS
A seaman or soldier serving at sea.

A seaman or soldier serving at sea. Less...
CLASSICI
In the Roman law. Persons employed In servile duties on board of vessels. Cod. 11, 12.

In the Roman law. Persons employed In servile duties on board of vessels. Cod. 11, 12. Less...
CLASSIFICATION
In the practice of the English chancery division, where there are several parties to an administration action, including those who have been served with notice of the decree or judgment, and it appears to the judge (or chief clerk) that any of them form a class having the same interest, More...

In the practice of the English chancery division, where there are several parties to an administration action, including those who have been served with notice of the decree or judgment, and it appears to the judge (or chief clerk) that any of them form a class having the same interest, (e. p., residuary legatees,) he may require them to be represented by one solicitor, in order to prevent the expense of each of them attending by separate solicitors. This is termed "classifying the interests of the parties attending," or, shortly, "classifying," or "classification." In practice the term is also applied to the directions given by the chief cleric as to which of the parties are to attend on each of the accounts and inquiries directed by the judgment Sweet Less...
CLAUSE
A single paragraph or subdivision of a legal document such as a contract, deed, will, constitution, or statute. Sometimes a sentence or part of a sentence. Appeal of Miles, 68 Conn. 237, 36 Ati. 39* 36 L. R. A, 176; Eschbach v. Collins, 61 Md. 499, 48 Am. Rep. 123. More...

A single paragraph or subdivision of a legal document such as a contract, deed, will, constitution, or statute. Sometimes a sentence or part of a sentence. Appeal of Miles, 68 Conn. 237, 36 Ati. 39* 36 L. R. A, 176; Eschbach v. Collins, 61 Md. 499, 48 Am. Rep. 123. —Clanse irritant. In Scotch law. By this clause, in a deed or settlement, the acts or deeds of a tenant for life or other proprietor, contrary to the conditions of his right, become null and void; and by the "resolutive" clause such risht becomes resolved and extinguished. Bell.— Clause potestative. In French law. The name given to the clause whereby one party to a contract reserves to himself the right to annul it—Clanso rolls. In English law. Rolls which contain all such matters of record as were committed to close writs; these rolls are preserved in the Tower. Less...
CLAUSULA
A clause; a sentence or part of a sentence in a written instrument or law. Clansnla centralis de residno non en eompleetitnr qns» non ejnsdent sint gen* oris own Us ana speoiatim dicta fne-rant. A general clause of remainder does not embrace those things which are not of the same More...

A clause; a sentence or part of a sentence in a written instrument or law. Clansnla centralis de residno non en eompleetitnr qns» non ejnsdent sint gen* oris own Us ana speoiatim dicta fne-rant. A general clause of remainder does not embrace those things which are not of the same kind with those which had been specially mentioned. Lofft Appendix, 419. Clansnla genoralis non rof crtnr ad cnprcssa. 8 Coke, 154. A general clause does not refer to things expressed. Clansnla qn» abrogatlonem enclndit ab initio non valet. A clause [in a law] which precludes its abrogation is void from the beginning. Bac. Max. 77. i Clansnla vel dispositio Inntiiis per praesnmptionexn remotam, vel cans am ex post facto non fnloitnr. A useless clause or disposition [one which expresses no more than the law by intendment would have supplied] is not supported by a remote presumption, [or foreign intendment of some purpose, in regard whereof it might be material,] or by a cause arising afterwards, [which may induce an operation of those idle words.] Bac. Max. 82, regula 21. ClansnlsB inoonsnctsB semper indnennt snspicionem. Unusual clauses [in an instrument] always induce suspicion. 8 Coke. 81. Less...

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