Category: C

the term used when a witness is examined by the opposing party in the suit before the court.

An agreement between two or more EXCHANGES that permits MARGIN requirements to be computed on a net, rather than gross, basis. Such an agreement avoids

the situation wherre land has been willed to 2 or more people and if one legatee dies the property goes to the other legatees.

A check crossed with two lines, between which are either the name of a bank or the words “and company,” in full or abbreviated. In the former case, the banker on whom it is drawn must not pay the money for the check to any other than the banker named ; in the latter case, he must not pay it to any other than a banker. 2 Steph. Comm. 118, note c.

Pilgrims; so called as wearing the sign of the cross on their upper garments. Britt. c. 122. The knights of the order of St John of Jerusalem, created for the defense of the pilgrims. Cowell; Blount.

A crofter; one holding a croft.

a common term for a thief, forger, conman or swindler.

The products of the harvest in corn or grain. Emblements. Insurance Co. v. Deliaven (Pa.) 5 Atl. 65; Goodrich v. Stevens. 5 Lans. (N. Y.) 230.

One who, having no interest in the land, works it in consideration of receiving a portion of the crop for his labor. Fry v. Jones. 2 Rawle (Pa.) 11; Wood v. Garrison (Ky.) 62 S. W. 728; Steel v. Frick. 56 Pa. 172. The difference between a tenant and a cropper is: A tenant has an estate in the land for the term, and, consequently, he has a right of property in the crops. Until division, the right of property and of possession in the whole is the tenant’s. A cropper has no estate in the land; and, although he has in some sense the possession of the crop, it is the possession of a servant only, and is, in law, that of the landlord, who must divide off to the cropper his share. Harrison v. Ricks, 71 N. C. 7.

A mark made by persons who are unable to write, to stand instead of a signature; usually made in the form of a Maltese cross. As an adjective, the word is applied to various demands and proceedings which are connected in subject-matter, but opposite or contradictory in purpose or object