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  • CUM PRIVILEGIO
    The expression of the monopoly of Oxford, Cambridge, and the royal printers to publish the Bible. Cam quod ago nom valet nt ago, valeat quantum valere potest. 4 Kent, Comm. 493. When that which I do is of no effect as I do it, it shall have as much effect More...
  • CUM TESTAMENTO ANNEXO
    L. Lat. With the will annexed. A term applied to administration granted where a testator makes an incomplete will, without naming any executors, or where he names Incapable persons, or where the executors named refuse to act 2 Bl. Comm. 603, 504.
  • CUMULATIVE
    Additional; heaping up; increasing; forming an aggregate. The word signifies that two things are to be added together, instead of one being a repetition or in substitution of the other. People v. Superior Court 10 Wend. (N. Y.) 285; Regina v. Eastern Archipelago Co., 18 Eng. Law & Eq. 183. More...
  • CUNADES
    In Spanish law. Affinity; alliance; relation by marriage. Las Partidas, pt 4, tit. 6, 1, 5.
  • CUNEATOR
    A coiner. Du Cange. Ctone are, to coin. Cuncus, the die with which to coin. Cuneata, coined. Du Cange; Spelman.
  • CUNTEY-CUNTEY
    In old English law. A kind of trial, as appears from Bract lib. 4, tract 8, ca. 18, and tract 4, ca. 2, where it seems to mean, one by the ordinary jury.
  • CUR.
    A common abbreviation of curia.
  • CURA
    Lat Care: charge; oversight: guardianship. In the civil law. A species of guardianship which commenced at the age of puberty, (when the guardianship called "tutela" expired,) and continued to the completion of the twenty-fifth year. Inst 1, 23, pr.; Id. 1, 25, pr.; Hallifax, Civil Law> b. 1, c 9.
  • CURAGULOS
    One who takes care of a thing.
  • CURATE
    In ecclesiastical law. Properly, an incumbent who has the cure of souls, but now generally restricted to signify the spiritual assistant of a rector or vicar in his cure. An officiating temporary minister in the English church, who represents the proper incumbent; being regularly employed either to serve in his More...
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