The name of a system of courts of the United States , invested with general original jurisdiction of such matters and causes as are of Federal cognizance , except the […]
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CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS
A system of courts of the United States (one in each circuit) created by act of congress of March 3, 1S91 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 4S8), composed of […]
CIRCUIT JUDGE
The judge of a circuit court Crozier v. Lyons, 72 Iowa, 401. 34 N. W. ISO.
CIRCUIT JUSTICE
In federal law and practice. The juslice of the supreme court who is allotted to a given circuit. U. S. Com p. St. 1901, p. 4S0
CIRCUIT PAPER
In English practice. A paper containing a statement of the time and place at which the several assises will be held, and other statistical information connected with the assises. Holthouse.
CIRCUITY OF ACTION
This occurs where a litigant, by a complex, indirect, or roundabout course of legal proceeding , makes two or more actions necessary, in order to effect that adjustment of rights […]
CIRCULAR CAUSATION
An action that is controlled or affected by its own status-change or result This is a common situation in complex systems that have several interconnected causes and effects.
CIRCULAR CREDIT
Credit documented to allow the maker or writer (drawer) of a bill of exchange (BOE) to get the BOE honored at two or more payer banks.
CIRCULAR MERGER
Merging companies with different product offerings, increasing the market for product and service offerings to the same group of targeted customers.
CIRCULAR NOTES
Similar instruments to “letters of credit.” They are drawn by resident bankers upon their foreign correspondents, in favor of persons traveling abroad. The correspondents must be satisfied of the identity […]
CIRCULATING CAPITAL
Assets that continually flow within an organization , such as raw materials, work in process , finished goods , and cash at hand.
CIRCULATING MEDIUM
This term is more comprehensive than the term “money.” as it is the medium of exchanges, or purchases and sales, whether it be gold or silver coin or any other […]
CIRCULATION
As used in statutes providing for taxes on the circulation of banks, this term includes all currency or circulating notes or bills, or certificates or bills intended to circulate as […]
CIRCULATION EXPENSES
Financial expenses for the developing, maintaining and increasing circulation of a periodical . Associated financial expense for the circulation of a periodical activities of creating, maintaining and increasing sales.
CIRCUMDUCTION
In Scotch law. A closing of the period for lodging papers, or doing any other act required in a cause. Paters. Comp.
CIRCUMDUCTION OF THE TERM
In Scotch practice. The sentence of a judge, declaring the time elapsed within which a proof ought to have been led, and precluding the party from bringing forward any further […]
CIRCUMSPECTE AGATIS
The title of a statute passed 13 Edw. I. A. D. 1285, and so called from the initial words of it, the object of which was to ascertain the boundaries […]
CIRCUMSTANCES
A principal act. or event being the object of investigation , the circumstances are the related or accessory facts or occurrences which attend upon it. which closely precede or follow […]
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
Evidence directed to the attending circumstances ; evidence which inferentially proves the principal fact by establishing a condition of surrounding and limiting circumstances , whose existence is a premise from […]
CIRCUMVENTION
In Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet. It has the same sense in the civil law . Dig. 50, 17. […]
CIRIC
In Anglo-Saxon and old English law q church
CIRIC-BRYCE
Any violation of the privileges of a church.
CISTA
A box or chest for the deposit of charters, deeds, and things of value. CITACION 202 CITIZEN
CITACION
In Spanish law. Citation; summons; an order of a court requiring a person against whom a suit has been brought to appear and defend within a given time
CITATIO
Lat A citation or summons to court