Category: C

A curate has no title, [to tithes.] 3 Bulst. 310.

In old records. A parsonage-house, or manse. Cowell.

The rectification or rendering nugatory of a defect in the pleadings by the rendition of a verdict; the court will presume, after a verdict, that the particular thing omitted or defectively stated in the pleadings was duly proved at the trial. State v. Keena, 63 Conn. 329, 28 Atl. 522; Alford v. Raker, 53 Ind. 279; Treanor v. Houghton, 103 Cal. 53, 36 Pac. 1081.

The king’s court. A term applied to the aula regis, the bancus, or communis bancus, and the iter or eyre, as being courts of the king, but especially to the aula regis, (which title see.)

One which can be committed only by a repetition of acts of the same kind but committed on different days. The offense of being a “common seller” of intoxicating liquors is an example. Wells v. Com.,12 Gray (Mass.) 328.

In the civil law. A guardian for this purpose; a special guardian.

PREFERRED STOCK that includes a feature allowing any foregone or suspended DIVIDEND payments to automatically accumulate. When the company restarts its program, cumulative preferred stock investors are entitled to receive all accumulated dividends before dividends can be paid to COMMON STOCK or NONinvestors.

Guardian for the suit. In English law, the corresponding phrase is “guardian ad litem.”

An increased punishment inflicted for a second or third conviction of the same offense, under the statutes relating to habitual criminals. State v. Hambly, 12G N. C. 10G6, 35 S. E. 614. To be distinguished from a “cumulative sentence,” as to which see SENTENCE.

In the civil law. A guardian or trustee appointed to take care of property in certain cases; as for the benefit of creditors. Dig. 42, 7. In Scot’s law. The term is applied to guardians for minors, lunatics, etc.