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A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.

One who make charts or maps.

The act business of forming chart's or maps.

Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorus and insipid. Castor-oil plant. Same as Palma Christi.

etimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic.

and beneficial interest in property, the legal interest in which is vested in a trustee. Wharton. -- Cestuy que use ( Etym: [Norm. F.], a person for whose use land, etc., is granted to another.

parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.

ependent on circumstances for its support. All testimony is more or less circumstantial. Wharton.

nd which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion. Wharton.

One who is related to another on the female side. Wharton.

Relatives by the mother's side. Wharton.

ons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in t…

watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. Wharton.

eral constitution has been styled a compact between the States by which it was ratified. Wharton.

ocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. Bouvier. Wharton.

Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known. Wharton.

An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position. Wharton. Conclusion to the country (Law), the conclusion of a pleading by which a party "puts himself upon the country," i.e., appeals to the verdict of a jury. Mozley & W. -- In conclusion. (a) Finally. (b) In short. -- To try conclusions, to mak…

To force (a person) to do something, or give up something, by intimidation; to coerce. Wharton.