CALL

1. In English law. The elec- tion of students to the degree of barrister at law, hence the ceremony or epoch of election, and the number of persons elected. 2. In conveyancing. A visible natural object or landmark designated in a patent, entry, grant, or other conveyance of lands, as a limit or boundary to the land described, with which the points of surveying must 3. In corporation law. A demand made by the directors of a stock company upon the persons who have subscribed for shares, re quiring a certain portion or installment of the amount subscribed to be paid in. The word, in this sense, is synonymous with "as- sessment," (q. v.) A call is an assessment on shares of stock, usually for unpaid installments of the sub- scription thereto. The word is said to be ca- pable of three meanings: (1) The resolution of the directors to levy the assessment; (2) its notification to the persons liable to pay; (3) the time when it becomes payable. 4 Exch. 543. 4. In the language of the stock ex- change, a "call" is an option to claim stock at a fixed price on a certain day. Bid. Stock- Brok. 70.

An agreement to sell, in the language of New York stock brokers. 181 U. S. 264.

(163) heir but to the State. (2) Property of any description which descends to the heir. (3) The lapse of a testamentary provision. either alphabetically by the names of the parties, or according to the preference or priority of some of the causes over the others; a "docket" (q. v.) CÆSARIAN OPERATION.-A surgical operation whereby the fœtus, which can neither make its way into the world by the ordinary and natural passage, nor be extracted by the attempts of art, whether the mother and fœtus be yet alive, or whether either of them be dead, is, by a cautious and well-timed operation, taken from the mother, with a view to save the prisoners, with a blank column to be filled up by lives of both, or either of them. dar is a list of prisoners to be tried at the assizes 23. In English criminal procedure, the calenwith which they are charged. At the end of the or Central Criminal Court, and of the offences assizes, the clerk of assize makes out a calendar, showing the verdicts and sentences passed on the the judge in cases where any prisoner is reoperation be performed after the mother's death, calendar is given to the sheriff as his warrant If this prieved, respited, or the like. A copy of this the husband cannot be tenant by the curtesy; or authority for executing the judgment against since his right begins from the birth of the issue, and is consummated by the death of the wife; but if mother and child are saved, then the husband would be entitled after her death.- Wharton. Tayl. Med. Jur. (2 edit.) 216 et seq. (Consult 2 CÆTERIS TACENTIBUS. --The others being silent. A phrase found in some of the old reports, signifying that the judges other than the one whose opinion is reported, expressed no opinion. each prisoner. 4 Steph. Com. 478. CALENDAR MONTH.---A period of time consisting of thirty days in April, June, September and November; of thirtyone days in the remainder of the months, except February, which consists of twentyeight days, unless, in leap-year, when the intercalary day is added, making twentyCÆTERORUM. - See ADMINISTRATION, nine days. See BISSEXTILE. 3. CAIRNS'S ACT (so called from the solicitor-general by whom it was introduced) is the Act 21 and 22 Vict. c. 27, enabling the Court of Chancery to award damages in addition to or in substitution for an injunction or decree for specific performance, e. g. in a suit to restrain interference with ancient lights. The jurisdiction given by the act ought not to be exercised in such a way as to enable one person to buy the property of another without his consent. Per Jessel, M. R. in Krehl v. Burrell, 7 Ch. D. 551. day of every month, being spoken of by itCALENDS.-Among the Romans the first self; or the very day of the new moon, which usually happen together. day before, be added to it, then it is the last day And if pridie, the of the foregoing month, as pridie calend. Septemb. is the last day of August. If any number be placed with it, it signifies that day in the former month, which comes so much before the month named; as the tenth calends of October is the 20th day of September; for if one reckons backwards, beginning at October, that 20th day of September, makes the 10th day before October. In March, May, July and October, the calends begin at the sixteenth day, but in other

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church. Paul . . . called to be an apostle Rom. i. 1. The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. Acts xiii. 2. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen. Now call we our high court of Parliament. Shak. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. If you would but call me Rosalind. Shak. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. Gen. i. 5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. Acts x. 15. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work. [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men. Brougham. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. [Obs.] This speech calls him Spaniard. Beau. & Fl. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. Gay. To invoke; to appeal to. I call God for a witness. 2 Cor. i. 23 [Rev. Ver. ] To rouse from sleep; to awaken. If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. Shak. To call a bond, to give notice that the amount of the bond will be paid. -- To call a party (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court, and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him. -- To call back, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon back. -- To call down, to pray for, as blessing or curses. -- To call forth, to bring or summon to action; as, to call forth all the faculties of the mind. -- To call in, (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent coin. (b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together; as, to call in neighbors. -- To call (any one) names, to apply contemptuous names (to any one). -- To call off, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the attention; to call off workmen from their employment. -- To call out. (a) To summon to fight; to challenge. (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia. -- To call over, to recite separate particulars in order, as a roll of names. -- To call to account, to demand explanation of. -- To call to mind, to recollect; to revive in memory. -- To call to order, to request to come to order; as: (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business. (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of debate. -- To call to the bar, to admit to practice in courts of law. -- To call up. (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the image of deceased friend. (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a legislative body.

To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. You must call to the nurse. Shak. The angel of God called to Hagar. Gen. xxi. 17. To make a demand, requirement, or request. They called for rooms, and he showed them one. Bunyan. To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. He ordered her to call at the house once a week. Temple. To call for (a) To demand; to require; as, a crime calls for punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which it describes. (b) To give an order for; to request. "Whenever the coach stopped, the sailor called for more ale." Marryat. -- To call on, To call upon, (a) To make a short visit to; as, call on a friend. (b) To appeal to; to invite; to request earnestly; as, to call upon a person to make a speech. (c) To solicit payment, or make a demand, of a debt. (d) To invoke or play to; to worship; as, to call upon God. -- To call out To call or utter loudly; to brawl.

The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call. "Call of the trumpet." Shak. I rose as at thy call, but found thee not. Milton. A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. Dependence is a perpetual call upon hummanity. Addison. Running into danger without any call of duty. Macaulay. A divine vocation or summons. St. Paul himself believed he did well, and that he had a call to it, when he persecuted the Christians. Locke. Vocation; employment. A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders. The baker's punctual call. Cowper. A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds. A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty. The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry. A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant reguiring or calling for a carresponding object, etc., on the land. The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. [Brokers' Cant] See Assessment, 4. At call, or On call, liable to be demanded at any moment without previous notice; as money on deposit. -- Call bird, a bird taught to allure others into a snare. -- Call boy (a) A boy who calls the actors in a theater; a boy who transmits the orders of the captain of a vessel to the engineer, helmsman, etc. (b) A waiting boy who answers a cal, or cames at the ringing of a bell; a bell boy. -- Call note, the note naturally used by the male bird to call the female. It is artifically applied by birdcatchers as a decoy. Latham. -- Call of the house (Legislative Bodies), a calling over the names of members, to discover who is absent, or for other purposes; a calling of names with a view to obtaining the ayes and noes from the persons named. -- Call to the bar, admission to practice in the courts.

To reach out with one's voice. | To request, summon, or beckon. | To reach out with one's voice. | To cry or shout. | To reach out with one's voice. | To utter in a loud or distinct voice. | To reach out with one's voice. | To contact by telephone. | To reach out with one's voice. | To rouse from sleep; to awaken. | To reach out with one's voice. | To request that one's band play (a particular tune). | To reach out with one's voice. | To scold. | To visit. | To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again). | To visit. | To stop at a station or port. | To visit. | To come to pass; to afflict. | To name, identify, or describe. | To name or refer to. | To name, identify, or describe. | Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name. | To name, identify, or describe. | To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact. | To name, identify, or describe. | To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as. | To name, identify, or describe. | To disclose the class or character of; to identify. | To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result. | To declare in advance. | To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result. | To predict. | To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result. | To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death. | To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result. | To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure. | To declare, or declare in favor of, a predicted or actual result. | To make a decision as a referee or umpire. | Direct or indirect use of the voice. | (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run. | Direct or indirect use of the voice. | (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions). | Direct or indirect use of the voice. | To tell in advance which shot one is attempting. | Direct or indirect use of the voice. | To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting. | Direct or indirect use of the voice. | To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.) | Direct or indirect use of the voice. | To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. | To require, demand. | To cause to be verbally subjected to. | To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs. | To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium. | To demand repayment of a loan. | To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

A cry or shout. | The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal. | A beckoning or summoning. | A telephone conversation; a phone call. | An instance of calling someone on the telephone. | A short visit, usually for social purposes. | A visit by a ship or boat to a port. | A decision or judgement. | The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor. | Ellipsis of call option. | The act of calling to the other batsman. | The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.) | A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call. | The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point. | A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. | The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting. | A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt. | A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty. | A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call. | An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. | Vocation; employment; calling. | A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land. | A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job. | A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year. | Need; necessity.

A surname.