CONDEDIT
claimants in presenting a demand against an insolvent estate.
Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)
CONDEMN
CONDEMN. To find or adjudge guilty. 8 Leon. 68. To adjudge or sentence. 8 BI.
CONDITION
the execution of the agreement depend on an event which it is in the power of the one or the other of the contracting parties to bring about or to hinder. Civ. Code La. art. 2024 They are either erpress or implied, the ...
CONDUCTOR OPERARUM
pecially those which are against [in re straint of} marriage and commerce. Lofft, Appendix, 644.
Cone, 2 Johns. Cas
(N. Y. 59; Brinley v.
Conf. Conference Reports
(by Cameron and Norwood), North Carolina.
CONFESSIO
Lat. <A confession. Confessto in judicio, a confession made in or before a court.
CONFESSION
CONFERENCE. A meeting of several persons for deliberation, for the interchange of opinion, or for the removal of differences or disputes. Thus, a meeting between a counsel and solicitor to advise on the cause of their cl...
CONFESSO, BILL TAKEN PRO. In
eguity practice. An order which the court of chancery makes when the defendant floes not file an answer, that the plaintiff may take such a decree as the case made by his bill warrants. ,
CONFESSORIA AOCTIO
Lat. In the civil law. An action for enforcing a servitude. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 824.
CONFIRMATIO
enlarged. Shep. Touch. 311; 2 Bl. Comm. 325.
CONFIRMATIO CHARTARUM
Lat Confirmation of the charters. A _ statute passed in the 25 Edw. I., whereby the Great Charter is declared to be allowed as the common law; all judgments contrary to it are declared void; copies of it are ordered to b...
CONFIRMATTO
word is considered peculiarly appropriate to create a trust. “It is as applicable to the subject of a trust, as nearly a synonym, a8 the English language is capable of. Trust is a confidence which one man reposes in an...
CONFIRMAVI
Lat. I have confirmed. The emphatic word in the ancient deeds of confirmation. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 14, § 5.
Confl. Laws, § 507; 3 Bl. Comm
CONFLICT OF LAWS
CONFISCABLE. Capable of being confiscated or suitable for confiscation; liable to forfefture. Camp v. Lockwood, 1 Dall. (Pa.) 393, 1 L. Ed. 194. 1. An opposition, conflict, or antagonism between differ- ent laws of the...
CONFLICT OF PRESUMPTIONS. In
this conflict certain rules are applicable, viz.: (1) Special take precedence of general presumptions; (2) constant of casual ones; (8) presume in favor of innocence; (4) of legality; (5) of validity; and, when these rul...
CONFRAIRIE
Fr. In old English law. A fraternity, brotherhood, or society. Cowell.
Cong. El. Cas
ee Election Cases, '
Congdon, 86 Fed
228, 29 C. C. A. 670
CONGE
Fr. In the French law. Permission, leave, license; a passport or clearance to a vessel; a permission to arm, equip, or navigate a vessel.
CONGEABLE
L. Fr. Lawful; permissible; allowable. ‘“Disseisin is properly where a man entereth into any lands or tenements where his entry is not congeable, and putteth out him that hath the freehold.” Litt. § 279. See Ricar...
Conger v. Lowe, 124 Ind
368, 24 N. E. 889; 9 L. R. A. 165; Moody v. Snell, 81 Pa. 362.< Legitimate heirs. Children born in lawful wedlock and their descendants, not including collateral heirs or issue in indefinite succession. Lytie v. Ble Spe ...
CONGREGATION
CONFUSION. This term, as used in the civil law and in compound terms derived from that source, means a blending or intermingling, and is equivalent to the term “merger” as used at common law. Palmer y. Burnside, 1 Wo...
CONGREGATION 246
e principal supporters of a particular parish, or habitually meet at the same church for religjous exercises. Robertson v. Bullions, 9
CONJUNCTIM
Lat. In old English law. Jointly. Inst. 2, 20, &.
CONJUNOTIM ET DIVISIM
L. Lat. In old English law. Jointly and severally.
Conklin, 1 N. J. 353, 22 Am. Dec
519. —Equitable ejectment. A sooesding in use in Pennsylvania, brought to enforce specific performance of a contract for the sale of land, and for some other purposes, which is in form an action of ejectment, but is in...
Conn
261, 2 Atl. 325, 5 Atl. 682: Merrill v. 443. 479: Fuller v. Bradley, 25 Pa. 120; Mc- 584; Grame v. Assur. Soc., 112 U. S. 273, 5 Sup. Ct. 150, 28 L. Ed. 716; Spruill v. Insurance Co., 46 N. QO. 127. 487; Woods vy. Ra...
Connecticut Mut
L. Ins. Co. v. Groom, 86 Pa.
Connelly v. Telegraph Co., 100 Va
51, 40 8. E. 618, 56 L. R. A. 663, 98 Am. St. Rep. 919.
Connor v. Com., Ky
fae gtate Vv. Miller, 9 Houst. ‘(Del.) BOL 32 Atl.
CONSANGUINEUS
Lat. A person related by blood; a person descended from the same common stock.
CONSCIENCE °
CONQUESTOR. Conqueror. The title given to William of Normandy.
CONSCIENTIA REI ALIENI. In
Scotch law. Knowledge of another’s property; knowledge that a thing is not one’s own, but belongs to another. He who has this knowledge, and retains possession, is chargeable with ‘“‘violent profits.”
CONSEILS DE PRUDHOMMES. In
French law. <A species of trade tribunals, charged with settling differences between masters and workinen. They endeavor, in the first instance, to conciliate the parties. In default, they adjudicate upon the questions i...
CONSENSUS TOLLIT ERROREM
Consecratio est periodus electionis;
CONSENSUS YOLUNTAS
’ Gomsensus voluntas multorum ad quos res pertinet, simul juncta. Consent is the united will of several interested in one subject-matter. Davis, 48; Branch, Princ.
CONSEQUENTIAL CONTEMPT. The
ancient name for what is now known as “constructive” contempt of court. Bx parte
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE. Such
damage, loss, or injury as does not flow di- . Fectly and immediately from the act of the party, but only from some of the consequences or results of such act. Swain v. Copper Co., 111 Tenn. 430, 78 S. W. 93; Pearson v. ...
Consideration
of the act complained of. Eaton v. Railroad
CONSIDERATION 250
promisor, is a good consideration for a prom-
CONSIDERATUR
L. lat. It is considered. Held to mean the same with constderatum est. 2 Strange, 874. .
CONSIGNMENT
as distinguished from such as are illegal or immoral. The term is also sometimes used. as equivalent to “good” or “sufficient” consideration. See Sampson v. Swift, 11 Vt. 315; Albert Lea College v. Brown, 88 Minn...
CONSIGNOR
one person in one place to another person in another place. See CoNnsIGN.
CONSOLIDATION
celona) in the fourteenth century, which comprised the maritime ordinances of the Roman emperors, of France and Spain, and of the Italian commercial powers. This compilation exercised a considerable influence in the form...
CONSOOCIATIO
Lat. An association, fellowship, or partnership. Applied by some of the older writers to a corporation, and even to a nation considered as a body politic.
Const
1387; 8 Phillim. Ecc. Law, 586. 254.—Liberty of the rules. A privilege to go out of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons within certain limits, and there reside.
Const. Law (3d Ed.) p
404, et seg.—Public service. A term applied in modern usage to the objects and enterprises of certain kinds of corporations, which specially serve the needs of the general public or conduce to the comfort and convenien...
Const. U. S. art
1, § 9. But to “draw a warrant” igs not to draw the money; it is to make or execute the instrument which authorizes the drawing of the money. Brown v. Fleischner, 4 Or. 149. 2, 3 3.