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Twelve sacks of coals, each holding three bushels, weighing about a ton and a half. In Wales they reckon 12 barrels or pitchers a ton or chaldron, and 29 cwt of 120 lbs. to the ton. Wharton … [Read more...] about CHALDRON, CHALDERN, OR CHALDER

Fr. A receiver; a bailiff. Kelham. … [Read more...] about CESSURE. L

Consolidated Financial Statement … [Read more...] about CFS

1. To object or except to; to prefer objections to a person, right, or instrument; to formally call into question the capability of a person for a particular function, or the existence of a right claimed, or the sufficiency or validity of an Instrument 2. As a noun, the word signifies the objection or exception so advanced. 3. An exception taken against legal documents, as a … [Read more...] about CHALLENGE

Fr. That is to say, or to wit. Generally written as one word, cestascavoir, cestascavoire. C'est le crime qui fait la honte, et non pas l'echafaud. Fr. It is the offense which causes the shame, and not the scaffold. … [Read more...] about C'EST ASCAVOIR