COMMON RECOVERY
justice and five (formerly four, until 31 & 32
Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)
COMMONERS
in English law. Persons having a right of common. So called because they have a right to pasture 6n the waste, in common with the lord. 2 H. Bl. 889.
COMMONS
i. The class of subjects in Great Britain exclusive of the royal family and the nobility. They are represented in parliament by the house of commons.
COMMONS HOUSE OF PARLIA
MENT. In the English parliament. The
Commonwealth, 6 Grat
696. COURT OF INQUIRY. In English
COMMUNE
bellion where there is a usurped power. 2
COMMUNIA PLACITA NON TEN
ENDA IN SCACCARIO. An ancient writ directed to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, forbidding them to hold pleas between common persons (é. e., not debtors to the king, who alone originally sued and were sued the...
COMMUNIBUS ANNIS
years; on the annual average.
COMMUNIS OPINIO
twelfth century, and formed into free corporations by grants called “charters of community.”
COMMUNIS PARIES
COMMUNIS PARIES. In the civil law.
COMMUNITAS REGNI ANGLIZ. The
general assembly of the kingdom of England. One of the ancient names of the HMnglish parliament. 1 Bl. Comm. 148.
Comp. Eq
1110; Sweet. OVER SEA. Beyond the sea; outside
Comp. Laws Nev
1900, § 4460; Ann. Codes & St. Or. 1901, § 1492; People v. Solomon, 5 Utah, 277, 15 Pac. 4; Shelby County v. Simmonds, 33 Iowa, 345.
Comp. St
1901, p. 1150.) 1901, p. 1432). See Montana Coal & Coke Co. v. Livingston, 21 Mont. 59, 52 1901, p. 3418). See REFEREE.— Register of deeds. The name given in some states to the officer whose duty is to record deeds, ...
COMPANIES CLAUSES
or by purchase, or in any other similar way, even although the purchase be only in the name of one of the two, and not of both, because in that case the period of time when the purchase is made is alone attended to, and ...
COMPANIES CLAUSES CONSOLIDA
TION AOT. An English statute, (8 Vict. c. 16,) passed in 1845, which consolidated the clauses of previous laws still remaining in force on the subject of public companies. It is considered as incorporated into all subseq...
COMPANION OF THE GARTER
undertakings of a public nature by companies, unless expressly excepted by such later acts. Its purpose is declared by the preamble to be to avoid repeating provisions as to the constitution and management of the compani...
COMPANION OF THE GARTER. One
of the knights of the Order of the Garter.
Company
2 Steph. Comm. 540, note.
COMPARISON OF HANDWRITING
A comparison by the juxtaposition of two writings, in order, by such comparison, to ascertain whether both were written by the same person.
COMPASS
Mozley & Whitley.—Public company. In English law. <A business corporation; a 80- ciety of persons joined together for carrying on some commercial or industrial undertaking.
COMPASS, THE MARINER’S. An in
strument used by mariners to point out the course of a ship at sea. It consists of a magnetized steel bar called the “needle,” attached to the under side of a card, upon which are drawn the points of the compass, and...
COMPASSING
COMPASSING. Imagining or contriving, or plotting. In English law, “compassing the king’s death” is trenson. 4 Ri.
COMPENSATIO
Lat. In the civil law. Compensation, or set-off. A proceeding re sembling a set-off in the common law, being a claim on the part of the defendant to have an amount due to him from the plaintiff deducted from his demand. ...
COMPETENCY
power of eminent domain, this term means a payment in money. Any benefit to the re, maining property of the owner, arising from public works for which a part has been taken, cannot be considered as compensation. given t...
COMPLAINT
alphabetical arrangement or some other plan of classification. Such a collection of statutes differs from a code in this, that none of the laws so compiled derives any new force or undergoes any modification in its relat...
COMPLETE, adj
1. Full; entire; including every item or element of the thing spoken of, without omissions or deficiencies ; as, a “complete” copy, record, schedule, or transcript. Yeager v. Wright, 112 Ind. 230, 13 N. B. 707; Ander...
COMPOSITIO MENSURARUM.. The
ordinance of measures. The title of an ancient ordinance, not printed, mentioned in the statute 28 Hen. VIII. c 4; establishing a standard of measures. 1 Bl. Comm. 275.
COMPOSITIO ULNARUM ET PER
TICARUM. The statute of ells and perches. The title of an English statute establishing a standard of measures. 1 Bl. Comm. 275.
COMPRA Y VENTA
peoples, this was the name given to a sum of money pald, as satisfaction for a wrong or personal injury, to the person harmed, or to his family if he died, by the aggressor. It was originally made by mutual agreement of ...
COMPRINT
COMPRINT. A surreptitious printing of another book-seller’s copy of a work, to make gain thereby, which was contrary to common law, and is illegal. Wharton.
Comptroller General
4 S. OC. 478.—Ministe~ al officer. One whase duties are purely ministerial, as distinguished from executive, legislative, or judicial functions, requiring obedience to the mandates of superiors and not involvin the exe...
COMPUTATION
cial situation from time to time. There are also officers bearing this name in the treasury department of the United States. ing, numbering,
COMPUTO
Lat. To compute, reckon, or account. Used in the phrases insimut computassent, “they reckoned together,” (see INSIMUL;) plene computarit, “he has fully accounted,” (see PLENE;) quod computeé, “that he account,...
COMPUTUS
The account or estimation of time by rule of law, as distinguished from any arbitrary construction of the parties. Cowell.
Comst. Comstock’s Reports, vols
1-4 New York Court of Appeals.
Comstock, 9 Mich
537. Specifically, in American mining law, a parcel of land constitutin
COMTE
Fr. A count or earl. In the ancient French law, the comté was an officer having jurisdiction over a particular district or territory, with functions partly military and partly judicial.
Comyns, and Bacon
(1 Steph. Comm. 54.) The term “digest” has now sepplanted that of “abridgment.” Sweet.
CON BUENA FE
With (or in) good faith.
CONCEDER
Fr. In French law. To grant. See CoNcESSION.
CONCESSIMUS
Lat. We have granted. A term used in conveyances, the effect of which was to create a joint covenant on the part of the grantors.
CONCESSION
the underwriter to know, is not to be considered as such concealment. If the fact so untruly stated or porvore’y suppressed is not material, that is, if the knowledge or ignorance of it would not naturally influence th...
CONCESSIT SOLVERE
(He granted and agreed to pay.) In English law. An ac tion of debt upon a simple contract. It lies by custom in the mayor’s court, London, and Bristol city court.
CONCILIOM
Lat. A council. Also argument in a cause, or the sitting of the court to hear argument; a day allowed to a defendant to present his argument; an imparlance.
CONCORDAT
Conclusion also denotes a bar or estoppel; the consequence, as respects the individual, — of a judgment upon the subject-matter, or of his confession of a matter or thing which the law thenceforth forbids him to deny. ...
CONCORDIA
of which he engages to pay within a certain . time a certain proportion of his debts. and by which the creditors agree to discharge the whole of. their claims in consideration of the same. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 538. Lat. ...
CONCORDIA DISCORDANTIUM
CANONUM. The harmony of the discordant canons. <A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions made. by Gratian, an Italian monk, A. D. 1151; more commonly known by the name of “Decretum Gratiani.”
CONCUBINE
(1) A woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not married. (2) A sort of inferior wife, among the Romans, upon whom the husband did not confer his rank or quality.
CONCURSUS
in the civil law. (1) A running together; a collision, as concursus creditorum, a conflict among creditors. (2)