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C.C. - Civil Code.
CC&Rs - Covenants, Conditions
& Restrictions -- detailed limitations
applying to the use or enjoyment of real
property.
C.C.P. - Code of Civil
Procedure.
c.t.a. - With will annexed.
Capita - Heads; persons.
Caption - The heading of a
title or document.
Cause - An action or a suit.
Caveat - Let him/her beware.
Caveat Emptor - Let the buyer
beware.
Certificate of Sale - Evidence
of a purchaser's acquisition of legal
title at a judicial sale, subject to
redemption rights, if any.
Certificate of Title -
Certified statement as to land ownership
based upon examination of record title.
Certiorari - A writ from a
higher court to a lower court directing
the forwarding of a certified record of
a proceeding up for review.
Cestui Que Trust - The person
for whose benefit property is held in
trust.
Cestui Que Use - The person
for whose use land was granted to
another.
Cestui Que Vie - The person
for the duration of whose lifetime an
estate has been granted.
Chain of Title - A
chronological list of documents
comprising the record history of title
to a specific parcel of real property.
Change of Venue - The removal
of a cause for trial from one county to
another.
Charter City - Generally, a
city organized under a charter.
Chattel - An item or article
of personal property.
Chattel Mortgage - Obsolete
name for mortgage of personal property.
Chattel Real - An interest in
real estate which is of a lessor degree
than a freehold estate. For example, an
estate at sufferance.
Chose in Action - A personal
right not reduced to possession but
recoverable by an action at law.
Civil Law - Law of the Roman
Empire, it is distinguished from the
Common Law of England.
Class Action - A lawsuit in
which plaintiff represents himself or
herself and all other persons similarly
situated.
Clearing House - An office
where bankers daily settle the balance
of their accounts with each other.
Cloud on Title - A semblance
or claim of title that is in fact
invalid.
Co-Administrator - One of two
or more administrators.
Code - A collection of laws.
Codicil - A testamentary
disposition subsequent to a will
altering, explaining, adding to,
subtracting from, or confirming it, but
not revoking it.
Co-Executor - One of two or
more executors.
Co-Insurance - Insurance
issued by two or more insurers.
Collateral - Property pledged
as security for a debt; also, indirect,
when referenced to blood relationship as
in 'collateral heirs'.
Collateral Assignment -
Transfer of an interest in personal
property for security purposes. A
collateral assignment is distinguished
from an absolute assignment mainly
because once the debt is paid that was
secured by the collateral assignment,
the assignment is extinguished.
Color of Title - That giving
the appearance of title.
Commercial Acre - The portion
of an acre of subdivided land remaining
after deducting areas devoted to
streets, sidewalks, etc.
Commissioner's Deed - Deed
executed by a court appointed person in
consummation of a sale ordered by the
court.
Commitment - A pledge,
promise, or firm agreement; also, a
title insurer's contractual obligation
to insure title to real property.
Common Law - The unwritten
body of English law founded upon customs
and precedents.
Community Property - Property
acquired by a husband and wife, or
either, during marriage, when not
acquired as the separate property of
either.
Competent - Legally qualified,
capable of contracting.
Composition - Agreement
between a debtor and creditors whereby
the latter mutually agree to accept a
certain percentage less than is due each
one.
Conclusive Presumption - Legal
inference that cannot be contradicted.
Condemnation - The taking of
private property for a public use. The
exercise of power of eminent domain.
Condemnation Guarantee - An
evidence of title issued to a
governmental agency naming persons to be
made defendants in an action in eminent
domain.
Condition - A qualification or
restriction annexed to a conveyance of
lands, whereby it is provided that upon
the happening of a particular event an
estate shall commence, be enlarged, or
be defeated.
Condition Precedent - A
condition that must be fulfilled before
a right accrues or an estate vests.
Condition Subsequent - A
condition that defeats a previously
accrued right or vested estate.
Conditional Sale Contract -
Contract of sale where title remains in
seller until all conditions of the
contract have been fulfilled.
Condominium - The composite of
individual ownership and exclusive
possession of a cube of space in a
multi-unit building plus a collective
ownership of and a collective right of
possession to facilities common to all
separately owned units.
Confession of Judgment - Entry
of judgment without formality of
proceedings upon debtor's admission and
with debtor's consent.
Confirmation of Sale - Court
approval of sale by a personal
representative, guardian, or
conservator.
Congressional Grant - A grant
of public land of the United States by
an act of Congress.
Conservatee - A person unable
to manage self, property, or self and
property and for whom the probate court
has appointed a conservator.
Conservator - A person
appointed by probate court to take care
of the person, property, or person and
property of conservatee.
Consideration - The value
inducing another person to enter into a
contract.
Constituent Corporation - A
corporation merged or consolidated with
one or more other corporations.
Constructive - Inferred or
implied.
Constructive Notice - Notice
given by public records.
Constructive Trust - Trust
imposed by law to redress a wrong or to
prevent unjust enrichment.
Contiguous - In actual close
contact; touching, adjacent, near.
Contingent - Dependent upon an
uncertain future event.
Contingent Beneficiary - A
person who may share in an estate or
trust depending upon the happening of an
event.
Contingent Interest - An
interest which may vest depending upon
the happening of an event.
Contour - Surface
configuration of land.
Contract - An agreement
between two or more parties to do, or
not to do a particular act.
Contract of Sale - An
agreement entered into for the sale and
purchase of property.
Convey - To transfer title to
property from one person to another.
Conveyance - A written
instrument transferring title to or an
interest in land.
Corporate Seal - A seal
attached to an instrument executed by a
corporation.
Corporation - An artificial
being created by law and endowed with
certain rights, privileges, and duties
of natural persons.
Corporation Sole - A
corporation consisting of a single
person and his/her successor in office.
Corporeal Hereditaments -
Substantial permanent objects which may
be inherited.
Corp. Code - Corporations
Code.
Corpus - Property comprising
the assets of a trust.
Cotenancy - Ownership by two
or more persons.
Co-Trustee - One of two or
more trustees.
Courses and Distances -
Description of land by metes and bounds.
Covenant - Agreement or
promise.
Curtesy - The common law
interest of a husband in estate of
deceased wife.
Custodia Legis - In the
custody of the law.
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