- C.
c. is an
abbreviation which may have several meanings depending on the context in which it is used:* Circa: in
geneaology and historical writing, "c." means "circa ", and is used when the dates of events are "approximately" known.
* Chapter: inlegal citation , "c." means "chapter", and is used to refer to the specific chapter number which a statute has been assigned in a volume.
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