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  • CADI
    The name of a Turkish civil magistrate.
  • CADIT
    Lat. It falls, abates, falls, ends, ceases. See CADEBE.
  • CADUCA
    In the civil law. Property of an Inheritable quality; property such as descends to an heir. Also the lapse of a testamentary disposition or legacy. Also an escheat; escheated property.
  • CADUCARY
    Relating to or of the nature of escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation. 2 Bl. Comm. 245.
  • CAEDUA
    In the civil and old common law. Kept for cutting; Intended or used to be cut. A term applied to wood.
  • CAESAR
    In the Roman law. A cognomen in the Gens Julia, which was assumed by the successors of Julius. Tayl. Civil Law, 31.
  • CAESAREAN OPERATION
    A surgical operation whereby the foetus, which can neither make its way into the world by the ordinary and natural passage, nor be extracted by the attempts of art, whether the mother and fcetus be yet alive, or whether either of them be dead, is, by a cautious and well-timed More...
  • CAETERUS
    Lat. Other; another; the rest. —Casteria paribus. Other things being equal. —Caeteri taeentibus. The others being silent: the other judges expressing no opinion. Comb. 186.—Caeterornm. When a limited administration has been granted, and all the property cannot be administered under it administration caterorum (as to the residue) may be granted.
  • CAHIER
    In old French law. A list of grievances prepared for deputies in the states-general. A petition for the redress of grievances enumerated.
  • CAIRNS' ACT
    An English statute for enabling the court of chancery to award damages. 21 A 22 Vict c. 27.
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