Category: C

A remedy created by statute in addition to one which still remains in force. Railway Co. v. Chicago. 148 111. 141, 35 N. E. 881.

Surveyors of the highways.

A system of voting, by which the elector, having a number of votes equal to the number of officers to be chosen, is allowed to concentrate the whole number of his votes upon one person, or to distribute them as he may see fit. For example, if ten directors of a corporation are to be elected,then, under this system, the voter may cast ten votes for one person, or five votes for each of two persons, etc. It is intended to secure representation of a minority. As to cumulative “Evidence,” “Legacies,” and “Sentences,” see those titles.

In Spanish law. Affinity; alliance; relation by marriage. Las Parti- das, pt. 4, tit. 6, 1, 5.

A coiner. Du Cange. Cu- neare, to coin. Cuneus, the die with which to coin. Cuneata, coined. Du Cange; Spelman.

This term applies to the oral-genital contact between the mouth and the genitals of a woman.

A common abbreviation of curia.

Lat. Care; charge; oversight; guardianship. In the civil law. A species of guardianship which commenced at the age of puberty, (when the guardianship called “tutela” expired,) and continued to the completion of the twenty-fifth year. Inst. 1, 23, pr.; Id. 1, 25, pr.; Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 1, c. 9.

One who takes care of a thing.

In ecclesiastical law. Properly, an incumbent who has the cure of souls, but now generally restricted to signify the spiritual assistant of a rector or vicar in his cure. An officiating temporary minister in the English church, who represents the proper incumbent; being regularly employed either to serve in his absence or as his assistant, as the case may be. 1 Bl. Comm 393; 3 Steph. Comm. 88; Brande.