A coiner. Du Cange. Cu-ncare, to coiu. Cuneus, the die with which to coin. Cuneata, coined. Du Cange; Spel
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In old English law. A kind of trial, as appears from Bract, lib
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Additional; heaping up; Increasing; forming an aggregate. The word signifies that two things are to be added together, instead of oue being a repetition or in substitution of the other. People v. Su-perior Court, 10 wend. (N. Y.) 285; Regina v. Eastern Archipelago Co., 18 Eng. Law & Eq. 183
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with the ap-purtenances. Bract fol. 73b
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The expression of the monopoly of oxford, Cambridge, and the royal printers to publish the Bible
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with the burden; subject to an incumbrance or charge, wbat is taken cum onere is taken subject to au existing burden or charge
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with satchel and purse. A phrase in old Scotch law
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Lat with copulation, i. e., sexual intercourse. Used in 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 con-Bummated by sexual connection
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(with a grain of salt.) with allowance for exriggeration
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A field on which a crop of wheat is growing is a cultivated field, al-though 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 piece of ground. . State v. Allen, 35 N. C, 36
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In old English law. A base kind of shivery. The confiscation or for-feiture which takes place when a lord seizes his tenant’s estate. Blount; Du Cange
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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
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In old Scotch law. A species of pledge or cautioner, (Scottice, back borgh,) used in cases of tbe replevin of per-sons from one man’s court to another’s. Skene
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Blnmable; censurable; In-volving tiie breach of a legal duty or the commission of a fault. The term is not nec-.essarily equivalent to “criminal,” for, in pres-ent use. aud notwithstanding its derivation, it implies that the act or conduct spoken of is reprehensible or wrong but uot that it Involves malice or a guilty purpose. “Culpa-hle” in fact connotes fault rather than guilt
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Lat. A term of the civil law, meaning fault, neglect, or negligence. There are three degrees of culpa,-‘-lata culpa, gross fault or neglect; lcvis culpa, ordinary fault or neglect; levissima culpa, slight fault or neglect,—and the definitions of these (le-grees are precisely the same as those in our law. Story, Bailm. § 18. This term is to be distinguished from dolus, which meaus fraud, guile, or deceit
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Lat. In old English law. Guilty. Culpabilis dc intrusione,—guilty of intrusion. Fleta, Jib. 4, c. 30, 8 11. Non ciilpabllis, (abbreviated to non cui.) In crini-itial procedure, the plea of “not guilty.” See Culprit
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(Fr. the bottom of a sack.) A blind aliey; a street which is open at one end only. Bartlett v. Bangor, 67 Me. 467; Perrin v. Railroad Co., 40 Barb. (N. Y.) 65; Talbott v. Railroad Co., 31 Grat. (Va.) 691; Ilickok v. Plattsburg, 41 Barb. (N. ¥.) 135
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In old records. The lay-ing up a ship in a dock, in order to be re-paired. Cowell; Blount
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For whose good; for whose use or benefit. “Cui bono is ever of great welght in all agreements.” Parker, C. J., • 10 Mod. 135. Sometimes translated, for what good, for what useful purpose
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(To whom in llfe.) A writ of entry for a widow against him to whom her husband aliened her lauds or tenements in his life-time; which must con-tain in it that duriug hls life she could not withstand it Reg. orig. 232; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 193
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A term of French mari-time law. See A Cueillettk
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