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mother, whose former affection is restor- 

 ed : a final separation speedily takes 

 place, however, soon after this return, 

 between the fawns of the season preced- 

 ing- the last and their dam, and the for- 

 mer remove to a distance, constituting a 

 distinct establishment, and rearing an off- 

 spring of their own. When the female is 

 about to bring forth, she secludes her- 

 self in some remote recess of the fo- 

 rest, from which she returns at the end of 

 about ten days, with her fawns, just able 

 slowly and weakly to follow her steps: in 

 cases of danger, she hides them in a place 

 deemed by her most secure from the 

 enemy, and attracts the attention of the 

 latter from them to herself; happy, by 

 her own perils, or even destruction, to 

 effect the security of her offspring. In 

 winter these animals feed on brambles, 

 broom, heath, and catkins ; and in spring 

 they eat the young wood and leaves of 

 almost every species of trees, and are 

 said to be so affected, as it were with in- 

 toxication, by the fermentation of this 

 food in their stomachs, that they will ap- 

 proach men and other enemies, whom 

 they generally shun with extreme care, 

 without apprehension or suspicion. The 

 flesh of these animals is excellent, though 

 after two years of age that of the males is 

 ill-flavoured and tough. Some roes have 

 been found perfectly white, and in the 

 forest of Lucia, in the duchy of Lunen- 

 burgh, a race of jet black roes is to be 

 met with, in every other respect but this 

 marked peculiarity of colour, (which is 

 also stated to be an invariable distinc- 

 tion,) resembling the common roe. 



Roes may be tamed to a certain degree, 

 but never so as to be completely familiar- 

 ized. The share of nai ural wildness which 

 they ever retain is connected, especially 

 in males, with much caprice, and even 

 antipathy to particular individuals, whom 

 they will assault with their horns, and af- 

 terwards violently trample on with their 

 feet. The roe exists now in no part of 

 Ireland, and, in Great Britain, only in a 

 few districts of the Highlands. 



C. axjp, or spotted axis, is a most beau- 

 tiful animal, marked with numerous spots : 

 it is described by Pliny, and is said to have 

 been sacred to Bacchus among the anci- 

 ents. Fig. 3. 



CERTIFICATION of assize of novel dis- 

 seisin, a writ granted for the re-examina- 

 tion or review of a matter passed by as- 

 size before any justices; as where a man, 

 appearing by his bailiff to an assize 

 brought by another, hath lost the day, 

 and having something more to plead for 



himself, as a deed of release, &c. which 

 the bailiff did not or might not plead for 

 him, desires a farther examination of the 

 cause, either before the same justices or 

 others, and obtaineth letters patent to 

 that effect. 



CERTIORARI, writ of, is an original 

 writ, issuing out of the Court of Chancery 

 of the King's Bench, directed, in the 

 King's name, to the judges or officers of 

 inferior courts, commanding them to cer- 

 tify or to return the records of a cause 

 depending before them, to the end that 

 the party may have the more sure and 

 speedy justice before the King, or such 

 justices as he shall assign to determine 

 the cause. 



A certiorari lies in all judicial proceed- 

 ings in which a writ of error does not lie ; 

 and it is a consequence of all inferior ju- 

 risdictions erected by act of parliament, 

 to have their proceedings returnable in 

 the King's Bench. 



In particular cases, the court will use 

 their discretion to grant a certiorari, as, 

 if the defendant be of good character, or 

 if the prosecution be malicious, or at- 

 tended with oppressive circumstances. 



The Courts of Chancery and King's 

 Bench may award a certiorari to remove 

 the proceeding from any inferior courts, 

 whether they be of ancient or newly 

 created jurisdiction, unless the statute or 

 charter which creates them exempts them 

 from such jurisdiction. 



CESARE, among logicians, one of the 

 modes of the second figure of syllogisms ; 

 the minor proposition of which is an uni- 

 versal affirmative, and the other two uni- 

 versal negatives : thus, 



CE No immoral books ought to be 

 read : 



SA But every obscene book is immo- 

 ral : 



HE Therefore no obscene book ought 

 to be read. 



CESSION, in law, an act by which a 

 person surrenders and transmits to ano- 

 ther person, a right which belonged to 

 himself. Cession is more particularly 

 used in the civil law for a voluntary sur- 

 render of a person's effects to his credi- 

 tors, to avoid imprisonment. 



CESSION, in the ecclesiastical law, is 

 when an ecclesiastical person is created a 

 bishop, or when a parson of a parish takes 

 another benefice without dispensation, 

 or being otherwise qualified. In both 

 these cases their first benefices become 

 void by cession, without any resignation ; 

 and to those livings *hat the person had, 

 who was created bishop, the King may 



