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;538 THE WEDDERBURN BOOK.Glossary. Burgess ticket, the document conferring thefreedom of a burgh.By, apart from, e.g., "be and by the law," accordingto and apart from the law.Byronis, arrears.Calsat, causeway, street.Canny, canvas ; e.g., canny lynt, canny dammas.Casting up the heretaqe, i.e., taking up peats onthe estate (see vol. i., p. 148, n. 5).Caus win and lead away, cause to dry and castaway ; to " win peats " is to dry them.Cautioner, surety ; cautioner, caurie, suretyship.Chakkeraw, the Exchequer Row ; and also achequered cloth or chess board.Chalder, a measure of sixteen bolls.Chamber iron chimney, an iron grate for a room.Chamlet, dyced, camlet in squares.Chaplain, ehaplainry. See vol. i., p. 109, n. 1.Charter, a document of title, grant from the crownor superior, the conveyance of an estate.Check wheel, a wheel for spinning lint, with acheck inserted to stop the wheel when so muchis spun.Chimney crewkes, hooks for hanging pots over thefire.Chimney gallowes, projecting beam on which tohang cooking vessels.Chimney raxes. See s. Raxes.Chimney speel, a spit for roasting.Chirurgeon, surgeon. Gr., x^'povpyos, worker withwith the hand.Chopin (chappin), quart measure.Chopis bak, back shops.Chymna, chimney.Cinquefoil, a charge in heraldry, consisting of fiveleaves.Clare constat, precept of, a writ granted by asubject superior for entering in a property anheir, whose right clearly appears (clare constat)from documents.Clayth (claith, clath), cloth.Clerk of the bills, the official who takes chargeof the bills of complaint presented to the court.Coad (cod), pillow or cushion ; coadwair (codwair),pillow slip, cushion cover. Anglo-Saxon, codd,a bag ; viaer, protection.Coble (cobel), e.g., of salmon, a small craft orfishing boat ; or of a kiln, a vessel for steepingmalt.Cocket (cocquet, coket, coquet), a certificate underthe seal of the proper officer that the customshave been paid on goods exported from such andsuch a post. Clerk of cocquet, or coqueter, theofficer granting the certificates.Coft, bought ; cp, German, katifen, and Eng.,coffer.Cognition, the magisterial act of recognizing anheir, as entitled to be seized in property. Thusto be " cognosced heir " is to be formally recognisedas such.Comburges, co-burgess, fellow-burgess.Commissariot, local registry for confirmation orprobate of wills and for grants of administration.Commissary, the officer making the confirmationor grant.Comite of states, committee of estates.Compear, to appear, generally in a legal proceedingbefore the Court.Comprysing, lit. comprehending, but legally aprocess similar to apprysing, q.v.Compt (accompt), account.Condescend, to state the facts. Condescendance, aBummary of the facts in a legal proceeding.Confirmation of a grant, confirmation of acharter by an overlord or subject superior.Confirmation of a will ; see s. Commissariot.Conjunct, joint ; e.g., conjunct fee, ownership ofland by more than one person jointly.Connexis, appurtenances, things connected with anestate ; cp. Annexis.Conqueish, to conquer ; to acquire property bypurchase, donation or exchange, as opposed toby inheritance.Conquest, heir of, an heir succeeding not bydescent from the predecessor but by ascent, asrepresenting an older line, e.g., when the secondof three brothers or his heir dies, the youngestsucceeded to the heretable but the eldest to theconquest property. The distinction betweenheritage and conquest was abolished in 1874.Contorar, contrary.Contracted, betrothed, and in Scotland legallyequivalent to marriage ; consent being legallyenough, and the public ceremony of marriagebeing introduced in order to make so importanta contract known, though not essential to itsee Stair.Coper guis pan, copper pan for cooking geese.Cordiner, cordwainer, shoemaker.Coronicles (cornicles, corniclis), chronicles.Cot, coat.Councillor, counsellor, town councillor, or sometimesadvocate.Cours (linen), coarse.Courten-roads, curtain-rods.Cranca, qua?re crance, a garland ; also a stuff madeof hair.Cranis, a crane of herrings is a barrelful ofunsalted herrings.Creel, wicker basket for fish.Creep (a hood of), crape, crepe.Croft, a small piece of land adjoining a house ;cp. Crofter.Cross dwelling, or lodging.Crownes of the sun (sone). French coins, socalledfrom the mint mark ; value aboutfourteen shillings.Cruk, circle, hook.Crukit hauche, winding low ground beside a river.Cuch bed, a couch bed.Cumptour, A, counter, accountant.Cunzehous, the mint ; cunzeour, master of the mint.Curator, guardian of an infant between fourteenand twenty-one years of age, as opposed totutor, guardian of a child under fourteen.Curator ad litem, guardian of a minor in a suit,or of a wife in a process v. her husband.Cussing, cousin.Customar, collector of the customs.Dative, testament or tutor, i.e., granted by theCourt, as distinct from testamentar, made orappointed by the testator himself. Thus testamentdative is a grant of administration asopposed to probate of a will.Deall, a board of deal or pine wood.Dean of gild, president of the gnildry. He isalso judge of the dean of guild's court in referenceto buildings, and has to see that theyare erected according to law and do not encroachon the rights of neighbours.Decerned, decreed.Decreet, judgment of the Court ; cp. decreetarbitral, award of an arbitration ; decreet ofremoval, judgment ordering the defenders toremove from lands.Defender, defendant in a law suit.