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===== County directory  =====

*An index to a group of records covering a single county. For example, a countywide index may cover one county of a state within a federal census.

     French word for "paralytic stroke."

     French word for "court."

     French word for "current."

*A list of city officers, government officials, and private residents.

     The area of land over which a court has authority.

     Recorded actions taken by a New Jersey court of chancery.

*A court in Alabama with statewide jurisdiction over civil cases appealed from lower courts.

     A court with jurisdiction over criminal cases.  

*One of the four superior courts at Westminster. It heard civil cases between commoners. In 1873 it became the Common Pleas division of the High Court of Justice, which was merged with the Queen's Bench division in 1880.

     A countywide court, usually having civil and criminal jurisdiction.  

*A division of a provincial superior or supreme court in Canada. The court hears serious civil and criminal cases and has the authority to grant divorces. Also called Court of King's Bench if the reigning monarch is a king and also called Trial Division.

     A court used to recover small debts, intended originally for use by the poor. It was abolished in 1642, and its function was taken over by county Quarter Sessions courts.

*The highest court in Scotland. It handles cases that deal with revenue, including debt to the Crown, and cases that lower courts refer to it.

     A high court, under the direct authority of the king, that mostly handled cases involving riots, perjury, and serious misdemeanors. It was abolished in 1642.

*A court in New Jersey with countywide jurisdiction over minor criminal cases, such as desertions, vice, apprenticeship disputes, and bastardy. Before 1704 these courts also had jurisdiction over civil cases. These courts were dissolved in 1947. They are also called county courts.

     A court of Common Law that handled matters of direct interest to the King or which were to be tried by his court. It was one of three courts that evolved from the earlier Curia Regis.

     A high court, under the direct authority of the king, which handled cases of inheritance of land. It was abolished in 1646.

*A record of a court’s decision on a case. Also called a court decree or court judgment.

===== Court Records, Family History Library Catalog™  =====

*Records kept by courts of law.

     A record type used in the Locality and Research Methodologies sections of the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) to identify articles that contain information about court records.  

*A building that houses a court of law or county offices and county records.

     French word for "cousin."

     French word for "first cousin."

*An old French law system, used in the area surrounding Paris in 1664, on which civil law in Québec (Canada) was based.

     French word for "roofer."

     Portuguese word for "grave."

*A legally binding agreement between two or more parties.

===== Coyote  =====

*A term used in Catholic Church registers to describe a person from Spanish-speaking Latin America whose ancestry is a mix of Indian (3/8), African (1/8), and Spanish Caucasian (1/2). Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.

===== Creek War (1836-1837)  =====

*A descendant of the original Spanish, Portuguese, or French settlers of the Americas.

===== Crimean War (1854-1856)  =====

*A Spanish word for chrism, or holy oil used in Latin and Greek churches for baptisms, confirmations, and other rites.

===== Cromwellian period (1649-1660), England  =====

*An incomplete but valuable list of Latter-day Saint pioneers who crossed the plains before 1869, when the railroad arrived in Utah. Its official name is the Utah Immigration Card Index.

===== Crown colony land grants  =====

*A contract that allows a person to use land held by the British Crown in return for money or some other form of recompense.

===== Cuarteado  =====

*A term used in Peruvian Catholic Church registers to describe a person whose ancestry is a mix of Indian, African, and Caucasian. Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.

===== Cuatrero  =====

*A term used in Catholic Church registers to describe a person from Spanish-speaking Latin America whose ancestry is a mix of Indian (3/4) and Spanish Caucasian (1/4). Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.

===== Cumberland Gap  =====

*A highland area that covers parts of eastern Tennessee and Kentucky. The Cumberland Plateau is bounded on the east by the Appalachian Mountain range.

===== Curation  =====

*Guardianship over a child who is old enough to marry but not yet 21 years of age.

===== Curtesy  =====

*The right a husband had to his deceased wife's real property. The husband received all of his wife's property, providing they had legitimate children who were born alive.

===== Customs passenger list  =====

*Passenger lists that masters of ships submitted to United States customs officials when ships arrived in the United States.

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