L. Lat. A horse for the chase, or a hound, dog, or courser. … [Read more...] about CHACURUS
C
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
An association (which may or may not be incorporated) comprising the principal merchants, manufacturers, and traders of a city, designed for convenience in buying, selling, and exchanging goods, and to foster the commercial and industrial interests of the place. … [Read more...] about CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
CETERIS PARIBUS
Latin for other things being equal. … [Read more...] about CETERIS PARIBUS
CHAFEWAX
Eng. law. An officer in chancery who fits the wax for sealing, to the writs, commissions and other. instruments then made to be issued out. He is probably so called because he warms (chaufe) the wax. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition An officer in the English chancery whose duty was to fit the wax to seal the writs, commissions, and other instruments thence issuing. … [Read more...] about CHAFEWAX
CHAMBER SURVEYS
At an early day in Pennsylvania, surveyors often made drafts on paper of pretended surveys of public lands, and returned them to the land office as duly surveyed, instead of going on the ground and establishing lines and marking corners; and these false and fraudulent pretenses of surveys never actually made were called "chamber surveys." Schraeder Min. & Mfg. Co. v. … [Read more...] about CHAMBER SURVEYS