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Calumniators
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CalumniatorsCivil law. Persons who accuse others, whom they know to be innocent, of having committed crimes.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
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Calendar
A list of cases scheduled for hearing in court.
Calender
1) An almanac. 2) Criminal law. A list of prisoners, containing their names, the time when they were committed, and by whom, and the cause of their commitments.
Call the plaintiff
At common law, when counsel for the plaintiff perceives that his client has not made out a case, the client may withdraw from the court room: whereupon, the crier is required to call the plaintiff. If he does not answer the call (made thrice in succession), judgment of nonsuit is entered.
Calling the docket
The public calling of the docket or list of causes at commencement of term of court, for setting a time for trial or entering orders.
Calling the plaintiff
Practice. When a plaintiff perceives that he has not given evidence to maintain his issue, and intends to become nonsuited, he withdraws himself, when the cryer is ordered to call the plaintiff, and on his failing to appear, he becomes nonsuited.
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Cambist
A person skilled in exchange; one who deals or trades in promissory notes or bills of exchange.
Camera stellata
English law. The court of the Star Chamber, now abolished.
Campartum
A part or portion of a larger field or ground, which would otherwise be in gross or common.
Canadian maritime law
The Supreme Court of Canada, in The Buenos Aires Maru (ITO -International Terminal Operators ), defined "Canadian maritime law" as having two major components: 1) the admiralty law of England received into Canada in 1934 as subsequently developed by Canadian statutes and jurisprudence; and 2) that body of law which would have been administered by the former Exchequer Court of Canada (now the Federal Court of Canada) on its admiralty side, if that Court had had an "unlimited jurisdiction in relation to admiralty and maritime matters".
Canal
A trench dug for leading water in a particular direction, and confin- ing it.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Calendar
A list of cases scheduled for hearing in court.
Calender
1) An almanac. 2) Criminal law. A list of prisoners, containing their names, the time when they were committed, and by whom, and the cause of their commitments.
Call the plaintiff
At common law, when counsel for the plaintiff perceives that his client has not made out a case, the client may withdraw from the court room: whereupon, the crier is required to call the plaintiff. If he does not answer the call (made thrice in succession), judgment of nonsuit is entered.
Calling the docket
The public calling of the docket or list of causes at commencement of term of court, for setting a time for trial or entering orders.
Calling the plaintiff
Practice. When a plaintiff perceives that he has not given evidence to maintain his issue, and intends to become nonsuited, he withdraws himself, when the cryer is ordered to call the plaintiff, and on his failing to appear, he becomes nonsuited.
Calumniators
Cambist
A person skilled in exchange; one who deals or trades in promissory notes or bills of exchange.
Camera stellata
English law. The court of the Star Chamber, now abolished.
Campartum
A part or portion of a larger field or ground, which would otherwise be in gross or common.
Canadian maritime law
The Supreme Court of Canada, in The Buenos Aires Maru (ITO -International Terminal Operators ), defined "Canadian maritime law" as having two major components: 1) the admiralty law of England received into Canada in 1934 as subsequently developed by Canadian statutes and jurisprudence; and 2) that body of law which would have been administered by the former Exchequer Court of Canada (now the Federal Court of Canada) on its admiralty side, if that Court had had an "unlimited jurisdiction in relation to admiralty and maritime matters".
Canal
A trench dug for leading water in a particular direction, and confin- ing it.
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