2. Curtesy
widower's right to an interest in his deceased wife's real property
3. Culpa Lata
Latin, gross negligence
4. Cuius Est Solum Ejus Est Usque Ad Caelum
Latin, "who owns the land, owns down to the center of the earth and up to the heavens"
5. Crumbling Skull Rule
a legal theory, companion to the thin skull rule, which limits a tort defendant's exposure to a plaintiff's injuries to the plaintiff's condition at the time of the tort
6. Cruelty
conduct that causes bodily or mental injury, or apprehension to such injury, to a person or an animal, without legitimate purpose
7. Cross Examination
in trials, each party calls witnesses; ask questions of the other party's witness(es) allowing considerably more latitude then when you question your own witnesses (called an 'examination-in-chief
9. Criminal Libel
a criminal offense; deliberate publication of defamatory lies which the publisher knows to be false
10. Criminal Law
body of law that deals with conduct considered so harmful to society as a whole that it is prohibited by statute, prosecuted and punished by the government