Additional; heaping up; increasing; forming an aggregate. The word signifies that two things are to be added together, instead of one being a repetition or in substitution of the other. People v. Superior Court 10 Wend. (N. Y.) 285; Regina v. Eastern Archipelago Co., 18 Eng. Law & Eq. 183. Cumulative dividend. See STOCK. Cumulative offense. One which can be committed only … [Read more...] about CUMULATIVE
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CULPRIT
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. Blackstone believes it an abbreviation of the old forms of arraignment, whereby, on the prisoner's pleading not guilty, the clerk would respond, "culpabilis, … [Read more...] about CULPRIT
CUMULATIVE LEGACY
Vide Legacy accumulative; … [Read more...] about CUMULATIVE LEGACY
CULRACH
In old Scotch law. A species of pledge or cautioner, (Scottice, back horghy) used in cases of the replevin of persons from one man's court to another's. Skene. … [Read more...] about CULRACH
CUMULATIVE OFFENSE
One which can be committed only by a repetition of acts of the same kind but committed on different days. The offense of being a "common seller" of intoxicating liquors is an example. Wells v. Com.12 Gray (Mass.) 328. … [Read more...] about CUMULATIVE OFFENSE