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and the marks of genius are difcoverable in his works. 
They are flight, and executed with the graver alone in an 
open ftile, fb as greatly to referable defigns made with a 
pen. He was eftabliflied at Haerlem ; and there purfuing 
his favourite ftndies in literature, he was made fecretary 
to that town, from whence he was fent feveral times as 
amballador to the prince of Orange, to whom he ad- 
drefled a famous nianifeflo, which that prince publiflied 
in 1566. His works were publiflied in three volumes, 
folio, in 1630. He died at Dergoude in 1390, aged fix- 
eight years. It is no fmall addition to the honour of 
this Angular man, that he was the inftrudtor of that juftly 
celebrated artift Henry Goltzius. 
CUERNABA'CA, or Cornavaca, a town of North 
America, in the province of Mexico: twenty miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Mexico. 
CUER'PO,/. [Span.] To be in cuerpo, is to be with¬ 
out the upper coat or cloke, fo as to difeover the true 
lhape of the cuerpo, or body : 
Expos’d in cuerpo to their rage, 
Without my arms and equipage. Hudibras. 
CU'ERS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Var, and chief place of a canton, in the diflricl of Hye- 
res : three leagues north-north-eafl of Toulon. 
CU'FA, a town of Aliatic Turkey, in the Arabian 
Irak, near the frontiers of Arabia Deferta, on the Eu¬ 
phrates : fixty miles from Bagdad. 
CUFF,/ [ zuffa , a battle; ziffdre, to fight, Ital.] A 
blow with the lilt; a box ; a ftroke.—He gave her a cuff 
on the ear, and (he would prick him with her knitting- 
needle. Arbutknot. —It is ufed of birds that fight with 
their talons. 
To CUFF, v. n. To fight; to fcuflle : 
Clapping farces added by the court, 
While the peers ciff to make the rabble fport. Dryden. 
To CUFF, v. a. To Al ike with the fill.—Were not 
you, my friend, abufed, and cuffed, and kicked : Congreve. 
I’ll after him again, and beat him.- 
Do, cuff him fuundly; but never draw thy fword. Shakef. 
To firike with the talons : 
Thcfe lazy owls, who, perch’d near fortune’s top, 
Sit only watchful with their heavy wings 
To cuff down new-fledg’d virtues, that would rife 
To nobler heights, and make the grove harmonious. Otw. 
To flrike with the wings. Thisfeems improper; 
Nov’ring about the coafls, they make their moan, 
And cujf the cliffs with pinions not their own. D~yden. 
CUFF,/i [coffe, Fr.] Part of the fleeve.—He railed 
at fops ; and, inftead of the common fafhion, he would 
vilit his miftrefs in a morning gown, band, fhort cuffs, and 
a peaked beard. Arbutknot. 
CUGNIE'RES (Peter de), one of the firfl who ven¬ 
tured to oppofe ecclefiaftical ufurpation in civil matters, 
was advocate-general to the parliament of Paris in the 
reign cf Philip de Valois, and bore a high character for 
legal knowledge and integrity. He undertook, in 1329, 
to defend, in prefence of the king, the regal rights agabnft 
the clergy, who had alfumed jurifdidtion in many c.iufes 
purely civil, fuch as every thing concerning widows, or¬ 
phans, the poor, and the !ick, under pretext of charity ; 
.and had multiplied the cenfures of the church on frivo¬ 
lous occafions, merely to extort money. He was an- 
fwered by Peter Bertrand and another prelate ; and, 
though their arguments were of little folidity, they had 
much weight in a:i ignorant and fuper.. i.tious age. Phi- 
.lip himfelf gave judgment agaipfi his own advocate, who 
gained nothing by his zeal but the ridicule and abufe 
of the clergy, and the imputation of herefy. However, 
he merits the thanks of oofterity for having made a com¬ 
mencement of thofe retrencliments of clerical pov. e.r, 
wltjch have been equally ferviceable to true religion, 
and to the civil interefls of Rates. 
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CU'I AN'TE DIVOR'TIUM,/in law, a writ for a- 
woman divorced from her hufband to recover her lands 
and tenements which Ate had in fee-flmple, or in tail, or 
for life, from him to whom her hufband did alienate them 
during the marriage, when fhe could not gainfay it. Reg. 
Orig. 233. And the heir Audi have a fur cui ante divor- 
tium, where the wife dieth before the action brought; as 
well as he fhall have a fir cui invita. F. N. B. 193. But 
of an eflate-tail, the heir fhall not have /hr tui in vita, or 
ante divot tium, but fhall be put to his for mt don in the de— 
feendhr. New Nat. Br. 454.. 
CU'I IN VI'TA, J. in law, a writ of entry for a wi¬ 
dow againft him to whom her hufband aliened her lands 
or tenements in his life-time ; which mud contain in it, 
that during his life fhe could not withftand it. Re<r. Orig. 
232. If hufband ar.d wife be joint-tenants before the 
coverture, and the hufband alieneth all the land, and 
dieth, fi e fhall have a cui in vita for a moiety, and no 
more ; but if they are j int-purchafers during the cover¬ 
ture, and he alien all the land, and dierh, his wife fhall 
have a cui in vita of the whole land ; bccaufe that, during 
the coverture, as to purchafe, they are but one perfon 
in law. And for this reafon, if hufband and wife, and a 
third perfon, purchafe jointly, and the hufband alieneth 
all in fee, and dieth, the wife fhall have a cui in vita of a 
moiety. Where the hufband and wife exchange the lands 
of the wife for ether lands, if the wife agree unto the ex¬ 
change after the imfband’s death, (he (hall not have a 
cui in vita. Alfo if the wife accept of parcel of the 
land in dower, of which (he hath a cui in vita, by that 
acceptance, (lie (hall be barred of therefidue. New Nat. 
Br. 430. If the hufband and wife lofe by default the 
wife’s land;,, after the death of her hufband, Ate (h«ll 
have a cui in vita to recover thofe lands fo loft by de¬ 
fault. F. N. B. 1S7- By 13 Edw. I. c. 3. cui in vita is 
given to the wife where tire rieceafed hufband loft her 
lands by default in his life-time; and Ate Atall be ad¬ 
mitted to defend her right during hisdife, if fhe come 
in before judgment. Likewife if tenant in dower, by 
the curtefy, or for life, do make default, &c. the heirs 
and they to whom the revarfton belongeth, (hall be ad¬ 
mitted to their anfwer, if they come before judgment; 
and, if on default judgment happen to be given, fuch 
heirs, See. Aiall have a writ of entry for recovery of the 
fame, after the death of fuch tenants. See Booth on real 
actions, and F. N. B. 
CU'JAS (James), the moft celebrated jurift of his 
time, w'as.born of parents of mean condition at Xouloufe 
in 1520. By great natural abilities he furmounted the 
obftacles of his birth, and, with fcarcely any inftrudtion, 
made himfelf mafter of the Greek and Latin languages, 
and the feveral branches of polite literature. He ftudied 
law under Arncul Ferrier ; but the great progrefs he 
made in the knowledge of ancient jurifprudence was 
chiefly the refult of his own refearches. After having 
taught for fome time in his native city, he was invited 
to ttie univerlity of Cahors, and then to chat of Bourges. 
He was next removed to Valence, where he had permif- 
fion from the king to take it feat among the counfellors 
of the parliament of Dauphine, as an illuftrious inter¬ 
preter of the law. Emanuel-Philifcert, duke of Savoy, 
prevailed upon him to occupy the profeflorial chair at 
■Turin, and treated him with great refpedt. He finally 
returned to Bourges, whence he declined an invitation 
to Bologna from \ ope Gregory XIII. Cujas was a man 
of a facial difpofition, and lived upon the mull familiar 
terms w'ith his pupils. He died at Bourges in 1390, at 
the age of feventy. It is (aid that he never gave a lec¬ 
ture without tire premeditation of (lx or feven hours, an 
example worthy the imitation of all public teachers. His 
works, which have been highly valued for the cl'earnefs 
of their elucidation of the Roman law, were printed at 
ParL in 15S4, in five volumes.folio. '1 hey were after¬ 
wards rep'rintea, with all his additional tradts, by Fa- 
brot, in ten vo. times, 1638-9. Cujas directed by his 
