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
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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
CIRCADA
A tribute anciently paid to the bishop or archbishop for visiting churches. Du Fresne. … [Read more...] about CIRCADA
CIRCUMSTANDIBUS
persons, practice. Bystanders from whom jurors are to be selected when the panel has been exhausted. … [Read more...] about CIRCUMSTANDIBUS