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Chaplain
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ChaplainA clergyman appointed to say prayers and perform divine service.
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Service
1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
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Chapete
A Southern Mexican word used to disrespect Northern California gang members.
Chapman
One whose business is to buy and sell goods or other things.
Chapter
Ecclesiastical law. A congregation of clergymen.
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Chance
Accident. As the law punishes a crime only when there is an intention to commit it, it follows that when those acts are done in a lawful business or pursuit by mere chance or accident, which would have been criminal if there had been an intention, express or implied, to commit them, there is no crime.
Chance-medley
Criminal law. A sudden affray.
Change
The exchange of money for money.
Change of venue
A change of judges when one side one side feels the present judge is prejudice.
Change ticket
The name given in Arkansas to a species of promissory notes issued for the purpose of making change in small transactions.
Chaplain
Chapman
One whose business is to buy and sell goods or other things.
Chapter
Ecclesiastical law. A congregation of clergymen.
Character
The qualities impressed by nature or habit on a person, which distinguish him from other persons. These constitute his real character; while the qualities he is supposed to possess constitute his estimated character or reputation. "Reputation" may be evidence of character, but is not character itself. 8 Barb. 608 (1850). That which a person really is, in distinction from that which he may be reputed to be.
Character evidence
The testimony of witnesses who know the general character and reputation of a person in the community in which he or she lives. It may be considered by the jury in a dual respect: (1) as substantive evidence upon the theory that a person of good character and reputation is less likely to commit a crime than one who does not have a good character and reputation, and (2) as corroborative evidence in support of a witness's testimony as bearing upon credibility.
Characteristic performance
The essential contact of the rebuttable presumption of the Rome Convention, 1980, to the effect that the most closely connected country is the one in which the party who is to carry out the characteristic performance has his habitual residence or its central administration and, in some cases, its principal place of business.
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Service
1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
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Chapete
A Southern Mexican word used to disrespect Northern California gang members.
Chapman
One whose business is to buy and sell goods or other things.
Chapter
Ecclesiastical law. A congregation of clergymen.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Chance
Accident. As the law punishes a crime only when there is an intention to commit it, it follows that when those acts are done in a lawful business or pursuit by mere chance or accident, which would have been criminal if there had been an intention, express or implied, to commit them, there is no crime.
Chance-medley
Criminal law. A sudden affray.
Change
The exchange of money for money.
Change of venue
A change of judges when one side one side feels the present judge is prejudice.
Change ticket
The name given in Arkansas to a species of promissory notes issued for the purpose of making change in small transactions.
Chaplain
Chapman
One whose business is to buy and sell goods or other things.
Chapter
Ecclesiastical law. A congregation of clergymen.
Character
The qualities impressed by nature or habit on a person, which distinguish him from other persons. These constitute his real character; while the qualities he is supposed to possess constitute his estimated character or reputation. "Reputation" may be evidence of character, but is not character itself. 8 Barb. 608 (1850). That which a person really is, in distinction from that which he may be reputed to be.
Character evidence
The testimony of witnesses who know the general character and reputation of a person in the community in which he or she lives. It may be considered by the jury in a dual respect: (1) as substantive evidence upon the theory that a person of good character and reputation is less likely to commit a crime than one who does not have a good character and reputation, and (2) as corroborative evidence in support of a witness's testimony as bearing upon credibility.
Characteristic performance
The essential contact of the rebuttable presumption of the Rome Convention, 1980, to the effect that the most closely connected country is the one in which the party who is to carry out the characteristic performance has his habitual residence or its central administration and, in some cases, its principal place of business.
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