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COURT OF SWEINMOTE
In old English law. One of the forest courts, having a somewhat similar jurisdiction to that of the court of attachments, (q. v.)

In old English law. One of the forest courts, having a somewhat similar jurisdiction to that of the court of attachments, (q. v.) Less...
COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES
comprise the following: The senate of the United States, sitting as a court of impeachment ; the supreme court; the circuit courts; the circuit courts of appeals; the district courts; the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; the territorial courts; the court of claims; the More...

comprise the following: The senate of the United States, sitting as a court of impeachment ; the supreme court; the circuit courts; the circuit courts of appeals; the district courts; the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; the territorial courts; the court of claims; the court of private land claims'; and the customs court. See the several titles. Less...
COURTS OF THE UNIVERSITIES
of Oxford and Cambridge have jurisdiction in all personal actions to which any member or servant of the respective university is a party, provided that the cause of action arose within the liberties of the university, and that the member or servant was resident in the university when It arose, More...

of Oxford and Cambridge have jurisdiction in all personal actions to which any member or servant of the respective university is a party, provided that the cause of action arose within the liberties of the university, and that the member or servant was resident in the university when It arose, and when the action was brought. 3 Steph. Comm. 290; St. 25 & 26 Vict. c. 26, § 12, St. 19 & 20 Vict c. 17. Each university court also has a criminal jurisdiction in all offenses committed by its members. 4 Steph. Comm. 325. Less...
COURT OF WARDS AND LIVERIES
A court of record, established in England in the reign of Henry VIII. For the survey and management of the valuable fruits of tenure, a court of record was created by St. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 46, called the '*Court of the King's Wards." To this was annexed, by St More...

A court of record, established in England in the reign of Henry VIII. For the survey and management of the valuable fruits of tenure, a court of record was created by St. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 46, called the '*Court of the King's Wards." To this was annexed, by St 33 Hen. VIII. c. 22, the "Court of Liveries;" so that it then became the "Court of Wards and Liveries." 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 258. This court was not only for the management of "wards," properly so called, but also of Idiots and natural fools in the king's custody, and for licenses to be granted to the king's widows to marry, and fines to be made for marrying without his license. Id. 259. It was abolished by St 12 Car. II. c. 24. Crabb, Eng. Law, 468. Less...
COURTS OF WESTMINSTER HALL
The superior courts, both of law and equity, were for centuries fixed at Westminster, an ancient palace of the monarchs of England. Formerly, all the superior courts were held before the king's capital justiciary of England, in the aula regis, or such of his palaces Wherein his royal perspn resided, More...

The superior courts, both of law and equity, were for centuries fixed at Westminster, an ancient palace of the monarchs of England. Formerly, all the superior courts were held before the king's capital justiciary of England, in the aula regis, or such of his palaces Wherein his royal perspn resided, and removed with his household from one end of the kingdom to another. This was found to occasion great inconvenience to the suitors, to remedy which it was made an article of the great charter of liberties, both of King John and King Henry III., that "common pleas should no longer follow the king's court, but be held in some certain place," in consequence of which they have ever since been held (a few necessary removals in times of the plague excepted) In the palace of Westminster only. The courts of equity also sit at Westminster, nominally, during term time, although, actually, only during the first day of term, for they generally sit In courts provided for the purpose in, or in the neighborhood of, Lincoln's Inn. Brown. Less...
COURT ROLLS
The rolls of a manor, containing all acts relating thereto. While belonging to the lord of the manor, they are not in the nature of public books for the benefit of the tenant

The rolls of a manor, containing all acts relating thereto. While belonging to the lord of the manor, they are not in the nature of public books for the benefit of the tenant Less...
COURTESY
See CURTESY.

See CURTESY. Less...
COUSIN
Kindred in the fourth degree, being the issue (male or feuiale) of the brother or sister of one's father or mother. Those who descend from the brother or sister of the father of the person spoken of are called "paternal cousins;" "maternal cousins" are those who are descended from the More...

Kindred in the fourth degree, being the issue (male or feuiale) of the brother or sister of one's father or mother. Those who descend from the brother or sister of the father of the person spoken of are called "paternal cousins;" "maternal cousins" are those who are descended from the brothers or sisters of the mother. Cous-lns-german are first cousins. Sanderson v. Bayley, 4 Myl. & C. 59. In English writs, commissions, and other formal instruments issued by the crown, the word signifies any peer of the degree of an earl. The appellation is as aneient as tbe reign of Henry IV., who, being related or allied to every earl then in the kingdom, acknowledged that connecK Hon in all* his letters and public acts; from which the use has descended to his successors, though the reason has long ago failed. Mozley ft Whitley. —First cousins. Cousins-german; the children of one's uncle or aunt. Sanderson v. Bay-ley, 4 Mylne & C. 59.—Second cousins. Persons who are related to each other by descending from the.same great-grandfather or great-grandmother. The children of one's first cousins are his second cousins. These are sometimes called "first cousins once removed."' Slade v. Fooks, 9 Sim. 387; Corporation of Bridgnorth v. Collins, 15 Sim. 541—Quarter cousin. Properly, a cousin in the fourth degree; but the term has come to express any remote degree of relationship, and even to bear an ironical signification in which it denotes a very trifling degree of intimacy and regard. Often corrupted into "cater" cousin. Less...
COUSINAGE
See COSINAGE.

See COSINAGE. Less...
COUSTOM
Custom; duty; toll; tribute, it Bl. Comm. 314.

Custom; duty; toll; tribute, it Bl. Comm. 314. Less...

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