A type of modem that connects a computer or local network to broadband Internet service through the same cable that supplies cable television service or the service connection made via […]

Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters. It is a compound term formed from the Greek words far and write. Radiotelegraphy or wireless telegraphy […]

Brush-wood, or more properly windfall-wood.

Restriction of the operation of sea, air, or other transport services within or into a particular country to that country’s own transport services.

A collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place or a hidden or inaccessible storage place for valuables, provisions, or ammunition.

An inferior bailiff, or catchpoll. Jacob.

Letters issued and signed by the kings of France, and countersigned by a secretary of state , authorizing the imprisonment of a person. Abollished during the revolution of 1789.

In Spanish-American law. Property entailed on the caciques, or heads of Indian villages, and their descendants. Sehm. Civil Law, 309.

In Spanish law. An official statement of the quantity and value of real property in spy district, made for the purpose of justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. […]

In French law . An official statement of the quantity and value of realty made for purposes of taxation; same as cadastre, (q. v.)

A dead human body; a corpse. Cadaver nulling in bonis, no one can have a right of property in a corpse. 3 Co. Inst. 110, 2 Bl. Comm. 429; Griffith […]

Certain guidelines that are specified by the UK’s Cadbury Committee. The rules are for Corporation Governance’ which submitted their report in 1992. The objective of the report is to raise […]

Lat. To end; cease; fail. As in the phrases cadit actio, (or breve.) the action (or writ) falls; cadit assisa, the assise abates ; cadit quwstio, the discussion ends, there […]

In the United States laws, students in the military academy at West Point are styled “cadets;” students in the naval academy at Annapolis, “cadet midshipmen.” Rev. St.

The name of a Turkish civil magistrate .

Lat. It falls, abates, fails, ends, ceases. See CADEBE.

A chemical element with the symbol Cd and atomic number 48. This soft, bluish-white metal is chemically similar to the two other stable metals in group 12, zinc and mercury. […]

In the civil law . Property of an inheritable quality; property such as descends to an heir. Also the lapse of a testamentary disposition or legacy. Also an escheat ; […]

Relating to or of the nature of escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation , 2 Bl. Comm. 245.

When a limited administration has been granted, and all the property cannot be administered under it. administration ewtcrorum (as to the residue) may be granted.

A plan that allows employees to choose the allocation of their premiums and the composition of their benefits.

A cafeteria plan is a type of employee benefit plan offered in the United States pursuant to Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code. Its name comes from the earliest […]

In old French law. A list of grievances prepared for deputies in the statesgeneral. A petition for the redress of grievances enumerated.

An interest group of 19 agricultural exporting countries, composed of Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, South […]

An English statute for enabling the court of chancery to award damages. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 27.