In Scotch law. A closing of the period for lodging papers, or doing any other act required in a cause. Paters. Comp. Circumduction of the term. In Scotch practice. The sentence of a judge, declaring the time elapsed within which a proof ought to have been led. and precluding the party from bringing forward any further evidence. Bell. … [Read more...] about CIRCUMDUCTION
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CIPHER
An arithmetical character, used for numerical notation. By cipher is also understood a mode of secret writing. Public ministers and other public agents frequently use ciphers in their correspondence, and it is sometimes very useful so to correspond in times of war. A key is given to each minister before his departure, namely, the cipher for writing ciphers, (chiffre chiffrant,) … [Read more...] about CIPHER
CIRCUMSPECTE AGATIS
The title of a statute passed 13 Edw. I. A. D. 1285, and so called from the initial words of it, the object of which was to ascertain the boundaries of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in some particulars, or, In other words, to regulate the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical and temporal courts. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 215, 216. … [Read more...] about CIRCUMSPECTE AGATIS
CIPPI
An old English law term for the stocks, an instrument in which the wrists or ankles of petty offenders were confined. … [Read more...] about CIPPI
CIRCUMSTANCES
A principal fact or event being the object of investigation, the circumstances are the related or accessory facts or occurrences which attend upon it, which closely precede or follow It which surround and accompany it, which depend upon it or which support or qualify it Pfaffenback v. Railroad, 142 Ind. 246, 41 N. E. 530; Clare v. People, 9 Colo. 122, 10 Pac. 799. The terms … [Read more...] about CIRCUMSTANCES