Legal Maxim's

Cadit quaestio
— The matter admits of no further argument.
Cassetur billa (breve)
— Let the writ be quashed.
Casus fortuitus non est spectandus; et nemo tenetur divinare
— A fortuitous event is not to be foreseen and no person is bound to divine it.
Catalla reputantur inter minima in lege
— Chattels are considered in law among the minor things.
Causa proxima, non remota spectatur
— The immediate, and not the remote cause is to be considered.
Caveat emptor
— Let the purchaser beware.
Caveat venditor
— Let the seller beware.
Cepi corpus et est languidum
— I have taken the body and the prisoner is sick.
Cepi corpus et paratum habeo
— I have taken the body and have it ready.
Ceteris paribus
— Other things being equal.
Consensu
— Unanimously or, by general consent.
Consensus ad idem
— Agreement as to the same things.
Consuetudo loci observanda est
— The custom of the place is to be observed.
Contemporanea expositio est optima et fortissima in lege
— A contemporaneous exposition is best and most powerful in law.
Contra
— To the contrary.
Contra bonos mores
— Against good morals.
Contra non valentem agere nulla currit praescriptio
— No prescription runs against a person not able to act.
Contractus est quasi actus contra actum
— A contract is an act as it were against an act.
Conventio et modus vincunt legem
— A contract and agreement overcome the law.
Conventio privatorum non potest publico juri derogare
— An agreement of private persons cannot derogate from public right.
Coram Domino Rege
— In the presence of our Lord the King.
Coram non judice
— Before one who is not a judge.
Corpus
— Body.
Corpus delicti
— The body, i.e. the gist of crime.
Crescente malitia crescere debet et poena
— Vice increasing, punishment ought also to increase.
Crimen omnia ex se nata vitiat
— Crime vitiates every thing, which springs from it.
Crimen trahit personam
— The crime carries the person.
Cujus est dare, ejus est disponere
— He who has a right to give has the right to dispose of the gift.
Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelam; et ad inferos
— He who owns the soil owns it up to the sky; and to its depth.
Cum duo inter se pugnantia reperiuntur in testamentis ultimum ratum est
— When two things repugnant to each other are found in a will, the last is to be confirmed.
Cursus curiae est lex curiae
— The practice of the court is the law of the court.
Custos morum
— A guardian of morals.