CIVIL LIST

In Elnglish public law. An annual sum granted by parliament, at the commencement of each reign, for the expense of the royal household and establishment, as distinguished from the general exigencies or the state, being a provision made for the crown out of the taxes in lieu of its proper patrimony, and in consideration of the as- ■ignment of that patrimony to the pu.bllc use. 2 Steph. Comm. 591; 1 BI. Comm. 332. CIVIL SERVICE, This term properly includes all functions under the government, exeept military functions. ·In general it ls confined to functions 1n the great administrative departments of state. See Hope v. New Orleans, 106 La. 345, 30 South. 842; People v. Cram, 29 Misc. Rep. 359, 61 N. Y. Supp.858. [s. 210]