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  • CULPRIT
    A person who is indicted for a criminal offense, but not yet convicted. It is not, however, a technical term of the law; and in its vernacular usage it seems to imply only a light degree of censure or moral reprobation. Blackstone believes it an abbreviation of the old forms More...
  • CULRACH
    In old Scotch law. A species of pledge or cautioner, (Scottice, back horghy) used in cases of the replevin of persons from one man's court to another's. Skene.
  • CULTIVATED
    A field on which a crop of wheat is growing is a cultivated field, although not a stroke of labor may have been done in it since the seed was put in the ground, and it is a cultivated field after the crop is removed. It is, strictly, a cultivated More...
  • CULTURA
    A parcel of arable land. Blount
  • CULVERTAGE
    In old English law. A base kind of slavery. The confiscation or forfeiture which takes place when a lord seizes his tenant's estate. Blount; Du Cange. Out aetio fnerit mere criminal is, in-atitnl poterit ab initio eriminaliter vel eiviliter. When an action is merely criminal, it can be instituted from More...
  • CUM COPULA
    Lat With copulation, t. 6., sexual intercourse. Used iii speaking of the validity of a marriage contracted "per verba de futuro cum copula," that is, with words referring to the future (a future intention to have the marriage solemnized) and consummated by sexual connection. Cum de lucro duorum quseritur, me-lior More...
  • CUM GRANO SALIS
    (With a grain of salt.) With allowance for exaggeration. Cum in corpore dusentitur, apparet nnllam esse aeceptionem. When there is a disagreement in the substance, it appears that there is no acceptance. Gardner v. Lane, 12 Allen (Mass.) 44. Cum in testamento ambigue aut eti-am perperam seriptum est benigne in-terpretari More...
  • CUM ONERE
    With the burden ; subject to an incumbrance or charge. What is taken cum onerc is taken subject to an existing burden or charge Cum par delictum est duorum, semper oneratur petitor et melior fcabetur pos-sessoris causa. Dig. 50, 17, 154. When both parties are in fault the plaintiff must More...
  • CUM PERA ET LOCULO
    With satchel and purse. A phrase in old Scotch law.
  • CUM PERTINENTIIS
    With the appurtenances. Bract fol. 736.
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