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  • CRASTINO
    Lat On the morrow, the day after. The returnrday of writs; because the first day of the term was always some saint's day, and writs were returnable on the day after. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 50.
  • CRATES
    An iron gate before a prison. 1 Vent. 304.
  • CRAVE
    To ask or demand; as to crave oyer. See OYER.
  • CRAVEN
    In old English law. A word of disgrace and obloquy, pronounced on either champion, in the ancient trial by battle, proving recreant, t. e., yielding. Glanville (alls it "infcstum et inverecundum verbum'* His condemnation was amittere liberam legem, i. e.t to become infamous, and not to be accounted liber et More...
  • CREAMER
    A foreign merchant, but generally taken for one who has a stall in a fair or market. Blount.
  • CREAMUS
    Lat. We create. One of the words by Which a corporation in England was formerly created by the kiug,: 1 Bl. Comm. 473.
  • CREANCE
    In French law. A claim; a debt; also belief, credit, faith.
  • CREANCER
    One who trusts or gives credit; a creditor. Britt. cc. 28, 78.
  • CREANSOR
    A creditor. Cowell.
  • CREATE
    To bring into being; to cause to exist; to produce; as, to create a trust In lands, to create a corporation, Edwards v. Bibb, 54 Ala. 481; McClellan v. McClellan, 65 Me. 500. To create a charter or a corporation is to make one which never existed before, while to More...
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