Category: C

The portion belonging to the nation of the mulct for slaying the king, the other portion or tcera being due to his family. Blount

A mulct anciently paid by one who killed another, to the kindred of the deceased. Spelman.

Text or a message that is encrypted into a coded human unreadable form. The input must be decrypted to be read once recieved. It is also written as ciphertext.

That kind of punishment used by the ancients, and still used by the Chinese, called by Staunton the “wooden collar,” by which the neck of the malefactor Is bent or weighed down. Enc. Lond.

In Saxon law. A church

A breaking into a church, Blount

(From c-yric, church, and sceat, a tribute.) In Saxon law. A tribute or payment due to the church. Cowell.

A chirograph, (which see.)

In old English law. A cyrographer; an officer of the banc- us, or court of common bench. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 30.

The title of the emperor of Russia, first assumed by Basil, the son of Basilides, under whom the Russian power began to appear, about 1740.