Colony & N. R. Co
10 Allen (Mass.) 373, 87 Am. Dec. 644; Wilson v. New York, N.
Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)
COLOR OF TITLE
clans, and early adopted into the language of pleading. It was an apparent or prima facie right; and the meaning of the rule that pleadings in confession and avoidance should give color was that they should confess the m...
Colorado and vols
10-18 Colorado Appeals.
COLORE OFFICII
Lat. By color of office.
COM
exactly equivalent to “Co.” 51 Ill. 142.
Com., 13 Pa
632; State v. Crook, 16 Utah, 212, 51 Pac. 1091.
Com., 25 Grat
(Va.) 896; Leigh v. People, 113 lil. 379.—Apparent defects, in a thing sold, are those which can be discovered by simple inspection. Code La. art. 97.—Apparent easement. See EASEMENT.—Apparent heir. In English law....
Com., 31 Pa
198; Hotema v. U. S., 186 U.
Com., 78 Va
485; Rosenbaum v. Newbern, 118 N. C. 83, 24 S. BR. 1,32 L. R. A. 123; Galveston County v. Gorham, 49 Tex. 285; In re Cameron, etc., Ins. Co. (D. C.) 96 Fed. 757;
Com., 93 Pa
418, 39 Am. Rep. 762; Fulcher v. State, 82 Tex. -Cr. R. 621, 25 S. W. 65.
Com'rs, 21 Pa
20. As an adjective, “individual” means pertaining or belonging to, or characteristic of, one single person, either in opposition to a firm, association, or corporation, or considered in his relation thereto.- ~—In...
Com'rs, 54 How. Prac
(N. ¥.) 331: Carpenter v. Taylor, 1 Hilt. (N. Y.) 193: Cromwell vy. Stephens, 2 Daly (N. Y.) 23.
Com’n (C. C.) 19 Fed
701.—Interstate commerce. Such as is carried on between different states of the Union or between points lying in different states. See INTERSTATE COMMERCE.— Intrastate commerce. Such as is begun, carried on, and comp...
Com’n (C. C.) 32 Fed
255. But these two terms are to be distinguished; for there may be
Com’n, 45 N. J. Law
115; Curry v. District
Com’n, 68 N. J. Law, 523, 53 Atl
612. Not to be confounded with “common of fishery,” as to which see CoMMON, n.—Eishe laws. A series of statutes passed in England for the regulation of fishing, especially to prevent the destruction of fish during ...
Com’rs (C. C.) 19 Fed
701.—Interstate come merce act. The act of congress of February 4, 1887 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3154), designed to regulate commerce between the states, and particularly the transportation of persons and property, by...
Com’rs, 202 Ill
427, 67 N. EB. 5, 63 L. R. A. 264, 95 Am. St. Rep. 258; Columbus vy.
Comb
186.—Cseterorum. When a limited administration has been granted, and all the property cannot be administered under it. administration ceterorum (as to the residue) may be
Combs v. Jackson, 2 Wend
(N. Y.) 157, 19 Am. Dec. Natural guardian. The father of a child, or the mother if the father be dead.
Comin
31. rd Coke defines time of memory to be ‘“‘when no man alive hath had any proof 16 the contrary, nor hath any conusance to the contrary.” Oo. Litt. 866, 86).—Time out of memory. Time beyond memory; time out of...
COMINUS
Lat. Immediately; hand-tohand; in personal contact.
COMITAS
Lat. Comity, courtesy, civility. Comittas inter communitates; or comt tas inter gentes; comity between communi- . ties or nations; comity of nations. 2 Kent,
COMITATU ET CASTRO COMMISSO
A writ by which the charge of a county, together with the keeping of a castle, is conmitted to the sheriff.
Comm
108, 184. No right to the spoil vests in the piratical captors; no right is derivable from them to any recaptors in prejudice of the original owners. 2 Wood. Lect. 428. 76. A knight who forcibly assaulted and detained o...
Comm, 377; Statler v. U. S
157 U. 8. 277. 15 Sup. Ct. 616. 389 L. Ed. 700; Day v. Webb, 28 Conn. 144: Wallingford v. Dunlap, 14 Pa. 32;
Comm, 65: 4 B). Comm
411: 1 Stenh. Comm. 42.
Comm. : teph. Comm
23.—Sheriff elerk. The clerk of the sheriff's court in Scotland.—Sheriff depute. In Scotch law. The principal sheriff of a county, who is also a pt EP en yr amen A rent formerly Bains by a: sheriff, and it is prayed ...
Comm., 114 Ky
787, 71 S. W. 916; Bannon v. Burnes (C. C.) 39 Fed. 898.
Comm., 34 Pa
284; Branch v. Glass Works, 95 Ga. 573, 23 S. BE. 128
COMMANDERY
OCOMITY. Courtesy; complaisance; respect; a willingness to grant a privilege, not as a matter of right, but out of deference and good will.
COMMANDITAIRES
mander,” who could not dispose of it, but to the use of the priory, only taking thence his own sustenance, according to his degree. The manors and lands belonging to the priory of St. John of Jerusalem were given to
COMMENDATORY... He who holds
a church living or preferment in commendam.
COMMERCIAL |
New York and San _ Francisco.—-Internal commerce. Such as is carried on between individuals within the same state, or between different parts of the same state. Lehigh Val.
Commercial Security Co
vy. McPherson, 7 Oki. 832, 54 Pac. 489.—jPrimary Rowers. The principal authority given by a principal to his agent. It differs from “mediate powers.” Story, Ag. § 58..
COMMEROE
12 How. 209, 13 L. Ex. 906; Trade-Mark Cases, 100 U. S. 96, 25 L. Ed. 550; Gibbons v.
COMMISSAIRES-PRISEURS. In
French law. Auctioneers, who possess the exclusive right of selling personal property at public sale in the towns in which they are established; and they possess the same right concurrently with notaries, grefficrs. and ...
COMMISSION
Office or duty as the representative of his superior; an officer of the bishop, who exercises spiritual jurisdiction in distant parts of the diocese. given with the commission. Pen. Code Cal. 3 1351,
COMMISSIONER
es, to revise the sentence of the court of dele gates. 3 Bil. Comm. 67. ‘Now out of use, the privy council] being substituted for the court of execute a commission of bankruptcy, (9. v. ame
Commissioners of circuit courts
fiicers appointed by and attached to the circuit courts of the United States, performing functions partly ministerial and partly judicial. To a certain extent they represent the judge in his absense. In the examination o...
COMMITTITUR
COMMITMENT. In practice. The warrant or mittimus by which a court or magistrate directs an officer to take a person to prison. ;
COMMIXTIO '
COMMIXTIO. In the civil law. The mixing together or confusion of things, dry or solid, belonging to different owners, as distinguished from confusio, which has relation to liquids.
COMMODATI AOTIO
Lat. In the civil law. An action of loan; an action for
COMMON
though there be no deed or instrument to prove the original contract. 4 Coke, 37; 1 cliff, 10 Wend. (N. Y.) 648.—Common of fishery. The same as Common of piscary. See énfra.—Common of fowling. In some parts of the ...
Common and ordinary
duties with the lord’s court.
COMMON BAR. In pleading
(Otherwise called. “blank bar.”) A plea to compel the plaintiff to assign the particular place where the trespass has been committed.
Common Council, 58 Mich
213, 24 N. W. 887, 55 Am. Rep. 675; People v. Hoffman, 116 Ill. 587, 5 N. EB. 596, 56 Am. Rep. 793; Rogers v. Buffalo, 51 Hun, 687, 8 N. Y. Supp. 674.
COMMON LAW
prayer prescribed by the Church of England to used in ail churches and chapels, and which the clergy are enjoined to use under a certain po Common repute. The prevailing lief in a given community as to the existence of a...
COMMON PLEAS
38 Or. 584, 56 Pac. 275, 44 L. R. A. 266, 72
Common Pleas, 19 Wend
(N. Y.) 73; Sterling v. Sims, 72 Ga. 53; Bank v. Holland, 99