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An English statute for enabling the court of chancery to award dam~ ages. 21 & 22 Vict. c. ZT. J 1 CALABOOSE..A term used vulgarly, and occasionally in judicial proceedings and law reports, to designate a jail or prison, particuarly a town or city jail or lock-up. Supposed to be a corruption of the Spanish calabozo, K a dungeon. See Gilham v. Wells, 64 Ga. 194. CALCETUM:, [s. 167]