Cause proximo non remota spectator. The im mediate and not the remote cause is to be consid ered. Bacon, Max. Reg. 1 ; Broom, Max. 216 ; Story, Bailm. 515 ; 3 Kent 374 ; 2 East 348 ; 10 Wall. (U. S.) 191, 19 L. Ed. 909 ; L. R. 1 C. P. 320 ; 4 Am. L. Rev.
See CAUSA PROXIMA.
Cause vaga et incerta non est cause retionabilis. A vague and uncertain cause is not a reasonable cause. 6 Co. 57.
Causes dotia, vitce, libertatia, fled aunt inter favorabilia in lege. Causes of dower, life, liberty, revenue, are among the things favored in law. Co. Litt. 311.
Causes ecclesice pub lids causis cequiparantur. The cause of the church is equal to a public cause. Co. Litt. 34L Caveat emptor. Let the buyer beware. 110 U. S. 116, 3 Sup. Ct. 637, 28 L. Ed. 86.
Caveat emptor qui ignorare non debuit quod jus alienum emit. Let a buyer beware : for he ought not to he ignorant of what they are when be buys the rights of another. Hob. 99 ; Broom, Max. 768 ; Co. Litt. 132 a; 3 Taunt. 439 ; Sugd. V. & P. 328 ; 1 Story, EQ. JUT. Oh. 6. See CAVEAT EMPTOR. Caveat venditor. Let the seller beware. Lofft 328 ; 2 Barb. (N. Y.) 323 ; 6 N. Y. 73.
Caveat viator. Let the wayfarer beware. Broom, Max. 387. n. : 10 Exch. 774.
Cavendum est a fragmentis. Beware of frag ments. Bacon, Aph. 26.
Certe debet esse intentio, et narratio et certum fundamtentum, et certa res quce deducitur in judic ium. The intention, declaration, foundation, and thing brougat to judgment ought to be certain. Co. Litt. 303 a.
Certum est quad certum read% potest. That is cer tain which can be made certain. Noy, Max. 481 ; Co. Litt. 45 b, 96 a, 142 a ; 2 Bla. Corn. 143 ; 2 M. & S. 50 ; Broom, Max. 623 ; 3 Term 463 ; 3 M. & K. 353 ; 11 Cash. (Mass.) 380.
Cessante causa, cessat effectus. The cause ceae ing, the effect must cease. 1 Exch. 430 ; Broom, Max. 160.
Cessante ratione legis cessat et ipsa lee. When the reamn of the law ceases, so does the law itself. 4 Co. 38 : 7 id 69 ; Co. Litt. 70 b, 122 a ; Broom, Max. 159 ; 13 East 348 ; 4 Bingh. N. c. 388 ; 11 Pa. 273 ; 54 id. 201. See Dig. 35. 1. 72. 6. The doctrine is criticised by Austin, lect. 37.
Cessante statu primitivo, cessat derivativus. The primary state ceasing, the derivative ceases. 8 Co. 34 ; Broom, Max. 495 ; 4 Kent 32.
C'est le crime qui fait /a honte, et non pea Yecha faud. It is the crime which causes the shame, and
not the scaffold.
Cestuy que dolt inheriter al pere dolt inheriter al fits. He who would have been heir to the father of the deceased shall also be heir of the eon. Fitz. Abr. Descent 2; 2 Bla. Corn. 239, 250.
Chacea est ad communem legem. A chace ie by common law. Reg. Brev. 806.
Charta de non ente non valet. A deed of a thing not in being is not valid. Co. Litt. 36.
Chartarum super fidem, mortuis testibus, ad pa triam de necessitudine recurrendum est. The wit nesses being dead, the truth of deeds must, of ne cessity, be referred to the country. Co. Litt. 36.
Chirographum apud debitorem repertum prcesumi tur solutum. Where the evidence of a debt is found In the possession of the debtor it is presumed to he paid. Halk. Max. 30. See 14 M. & W. 379.
Chirographum non extens prcesumitur solutum. Where the evidence of a debt is not in existence it is presumed to have been discharged. Trayner, Max. 73.
Circuitus est evitandus. Circuity Is to be avoided. Co. Litt. 384 a ; Wing. Max. 179 ;• Broom, Max. 343 ; 5 Co. 31 a ; 15 M. & W. 208; 5 Exch. 829.
Citatio est de juri naturali. A summons is by natural right. Cases in Banco Regis Will. 111. 453. Citationes non concedantur priusquam exprima tur super qua re fteri debet citatio. Citations should not be granted before it is stated about what mat ter the citation is to be made. (A maxim of eccle siastical law.) 12. Co. 44.
Clausula generalis de residue non ea complectitur quo non ejusdem sint generis cum its quo speciatim dicta fuerant. A general clause of remainder does not embrace those things which are not of the same kind with those which had been specially mentioned. Lofft 419.
Clausula generalis non refertur ad expresso. A general clause does not refer to things expressed. 8 Co. 154.
Clausuld (lute abrogationem excludit ab initio non valet. A clause In a law which precludes its abro gation is invalid from the beginning. Bacon, Max. Reg. 19, p. 89 ; 2 Dwarris Stat. 673 ; Broom, Max. 27. Clausula vel dispositio inutilis per preesumptio nem remotam vel causam, ex post facto non fulci tur. A useless clause or disposition is not supported by a remote presumption, or by a cause arising afterwards. Bacon, Max. Reg. 21; Broom, Max. 672.