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  • CREMENTUM COMITATUS
    The increase of a county. The sheriffs of counties anciently answered In their accounts for the improvement of the king's rents, above the vi8Contiel rents, under this title.
  • CREPARE OCULUM
    In Saxon law. To put out an eye; which had a pecuniary punishment of fifty shillings annexed to it
  • CREPUSCULUM
    Twilight In the law of burglary, this term means tbe presence of sufficient light to discern the face of a man: such light as exists immediately before the rising of the sun or directly after its setting. Crescente malitiA oreseere debet et pcena. 2 Inst. 479. Vice increasing, punishment ought More...
  • CREST
    A term used in heraldry; it slg* nifles the devices set over a coat of arms.
  • CRETINISM
    In medical jurisprudence. A form of imperfect or arrested mental development, which may amount to idiocy, with physical degeneracy or deformity or lack of development; endemic in Switzerland and some other parts of Europe, but the term is applied to similar states occurring elsewhere.
  • CRETINUS
    In old records. A sudden stream or torrent; a rising or inundation.
  • CRETIO
    Lat. In the civil law. A certain number of days allowed an heir to deliberate whether he would take the inheritance or not Calvin.
  • CREW
    The aggregate of seamen who man a ship or vessel, including the master and officers; or it may mean the ship's company, exclusive of the master, or exclusive of the master and all other officers. See U. S. v. Winn, 3 Sumn. 209, 28 Fed. Cas. 733; Mlllaudon v. Martin, More...
  • CRIER
    An officer of a court, who makes proclamations. His principal duties are to announce the opening of the court and Its adjournment and the fact that certain special matters are about to be transacted, to announce the admission of persons to the bar, to call the names of jurors, witnesses, More...
  • CRIEZ LA PEEZ
    Rehearse the concord, or peace. A phrase used in the ancient proceedings for levying fines. It was the form of words by which the Justice before whom the parties appeared directed the Serjeant or countor in attendance to recite or read aloud the concord or agreement between the parties, as More...
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