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Cent
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CentMoney. A copper coin of the United States of the value of ten mills; ten of them are equal to a dime, and one hundred, to one dollar. Each cent is required to contain one hundred and sixty-eight grains.
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Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.
Coin
Commerce, contracts. A piece of gold, silver or other metal stamped by authority of the government, in order to determine its value, commonly called money.
States
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the states general.
Value
Common law. This term has two different meanings. It sometimes expresses the utility of an object, and some times the power of purchasing other good with it. The first may be called value in use, the latter value in exchange.
Dime
Money. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of one-tenth part of a dollar or ten cents.
Hundred
English law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the inhabitants tire civilly responsible to the party injured.
Dollar
Money. A silver coin of the United States of the value of one hundred cents, or tenth part of an eagle.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Cent
Money. A copper coin of the United States of the value of ten mills; ten of them are equal to a dime, and one hundred, to one dollar. Each cent is required to contain one hundred and sixty-eight grains.
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Celebration
Contracts. This word is usually applied, in law, to the celebration of marriage, which is the solemn act by which a man and woman take each other for husband and wife, conformably to the rules prescribed by law.
Cell
A small room in a prison.
Cenotaph
An empty tomb.
Censure
An official reprimand or condemnation of an attorney.
Census
An enumeration of the inhabitants of a country.
Cent
Centime
The name of a French money; the one hundredth part of a franc.
Central
Relating to the centre, or placed in the centre
Centumviri
Civil law. The citizens of Rome were distributed into thirty-five tribes, and three persons out of each tribe were elected judges, who were called centumviri, although they were one hundred and five in number.
Century
Civil law. One hundred.
Cepi
A Latin word signifying I have taken.
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Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.
Coin
Commerce, contracts. A piece of gold, silver or other metal stamped by authority of the government, in order to determine its value, commonly called money.
States
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the states general.
Value
Common law. This term has two different meanings. It sometimes expresses the utility of an object, and some times the power of purchasing other good with it. The first may be called value in use, the latter value in exchange.
Dime
Money. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of one-tenth part of a dollar or ten cents.
Hundred
English law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the inhabitants tire civilly responsible to the party injured.
Dollar
Money. A silver coin of the United States of the value of one hundred cents, or tenth part of an eagle.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Cent
Money. A copper coin of the United States of the value of ten mills; ten of them are equal to a dime, and one hundred, to one dollar. Each cent is required to contain one hundred and sixty-eight grains.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Celebration
Contracts. This word is usually applied, in law, to the celebration of marriage, which is the solemn act by which a man and woman take each other for husband and wife, conformably to the rules prescribed by law.
Cell
A small room in a prison.
Cenotaph
An empty tomb.
Censure
An official reprimand or condemnation of an attorney.
Census
An enumeration of the inhabitants of a country.
Cent
Centime
The name of a French money; the one hundredth part of a franc.
Central
Relating to the centre, or placed in the centre
Centumviri
Civil law. The citizens of Rome were distributed into thirty-five tribes, and three persons out of each tribe were elected judges, who were called centumviri, although they were one hundred and five in number.
Century
Civil law. One hundred.
Cepi
A Latin word signifying I have taken.
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