CONSTABLE
cuse another of a crime punishable by law; or wrongfully to injure or prejudice a third ‘per: son, or any body of men, in any manner; or to commit any offense punishable by law; or to do any act with intent to prevent ...
Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)
Constable of England
(Called, also, “Marshal.’”) His office consisted in the care of the common peace of the realm in deeds of a and matters of war. Lamb. Const. 4.—Constable of Scotland. An officer who was formerly entitled to comma...
CONSTITUTED AUTHORITIES. Of
ficers properly appointed under the constitution for the government of the people.
CONSTITUTIONAL
constitutes another his agent or invests the other with authority to act for him.
CONSTITUTIONAL 254
the constitution or fundamental law of the state. Dependent upon a constitution, or secured or regulated by a constitution; as “constitutional monarchy,” “constitutional rights.”
CONSTITUTO, NON ELIGENDO IN OF
FICIUM. A writ directed to those who had thrust a bailiwick or other office upon ‘one in holy orders, charging them to release ‘nim. Reg. Orig. 143.
CONSTRUCTION
Constitutum esse eam domum unicuigue nostrum debere existimari, ubi quisque sedes et tabulas haberet, suar~ umgue rerum constitutionem fecisset. It is settled that that is to be considered the home of each one of us wher...
CONSUETUDINES FEUDORUM
([at. feudal customs.) A compilation of the law of feuds or fiefs in Lombardy, made A. D. 1170.
CONSUETUDINIBUS ET SERVICIIS
In old English law. A writ of right close, which lay against a tenant who deforced his lord of the rent or service due to him. Reg.
CONSUETUDO
Lat. A custom; an established usage or practice. Co. Litt. 58.
CONSUETUDO LOCI
CONSUETUDINES. In old English law. Customs. Thus, consuetudines et assisa foreste, the customs and assise of the forest.
CONSUETUDO MANERII ET LOCI
' Consuetudo manorti et loci observanda est. 6 Coke, 67. A custom of a manor and place is to be observed.
CONSULTO
Lat. Inthe civillaw. Designedly; intentionally. Dig. 28, 41. oe
CONSUMMATE
generic sense, embracing all consular officera,
CONSUMMATION
GCONSUMMATION. The completion of a thing: the completion of a marriage between two afflanced persons by cobabitation. Shar on v. Sharon, 79 Cal. 633, 22 Pac. 26.
Cont. Sale, nn
256, 308. So called because the bnyer acts without particular examination or discrimination, turning his face, as it were, away. Calvin.
CONTEK
L. Fr. turbance, opposition. Conteckours; brawlers; peace. Britt. c 29.
CONTEMPORANEA EXPOSITIO
Contemporaneous exposition,
CONTEMPT
tion; a construction drawn from the ct#me when, and the circumstances under which, the subject-matter to be construed, as a statute or custom, originated.
CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS, LEGIS
LATURE, or PARLIAMENT. Whatever obstructs or tends to obstruct the due course -of proceeding of either house, or grossly reflects on the character of a member of elther house, or imputes to him what it would be a libel t...
CONTENTMENT, CONTENEMENT. A
man’s countenance or credit, which he has together with, and by reason of, his freehold; or that which is necessary for the support and maintenance of men, agreeably to their several qualities or states of life. Wharto...
CONTINENCIA
in the house of lords, express assent to a bill; the “not” or ‘‘non contents” dissent. May, Pari.
CONTINUING
committed at divers days and times within a given period or on a specified day and on divers other days and times between that day and another. This is called “laying the time with a continuando.” Benson v. Swift, 2 ...
CONTRACAUSATOR
mon law. Bract. fol. 48b—Contra legem terrse. Against the law of the land.—Oontra omnes gentes. Against all people. Formal words in old covenants of warranty. Fieta, lib. 3, ec 14, § 11—Contra pacem. Against the e...
Contract
COMMUTATIVE JUSTICE. See Jus- 2 Bl. Comm. 443; 2 Kent, Comm. 450; Linn v. .
CONTRADICTION IN TERMS. A
phrase of which the parts are expressly inconsistent, as, €. g., “an innocent murder ;” “a fee-simple for life.”
CONTRAINTE PAR CORPS
but is commonly reserved to designate one who, for a fixed price, undertakes to procure the performance of works on a large scale, or the furnishing of.goods in large quantities, whether for the public or a company or in...
CONTRAINTE PAR CORPS. In
French law. The civil process of arrest of the person, which is imposed upon vendors falsely representing their property to be unincumbered, or upon persons mortgaging property which they are aware does not be long to th...
CONTRAOT
é sides. The entire fulfillment of the promise by either is a condition precedent to the fulfillment of any part of the promise by the other. Whenever, therefore, there is a contract to pay the gross sum for a certain ...
CONTRAOTUS
Lat. tract; contracts. . —Contractus bone fidei. In Roman law. Contracts of good faith. Those contracts which, when brought into litigation, were not deter-
CONTRECTARE
Lat. In the civil law. To handle; to take hold of; to meddle with.
CONTRIBUTION
CONTRAVENTION. In French law. An act which violates the law, a treaty, or an agreement which the party has made. That infraction of the law punished by a fine which does not exceed fifteen francs and by an imprisonment n...
CONTRIBUTIONE FAOCIENDA. In
old English law. A writ that lay where tenants in common were bound to do some act, and one of them was put to the whole burthen, to compel the rest to make contribution. Reg. Orig. 175; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 162.
CONTUTOR
Lat. In the civil law.
CONUSANCE
nizance or jurisdiction. Termes de la Ley.
Conv
183), which might be accomplished either by investiture or by livery of seisin. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 33. See Thatcher v. 110. 157. <A proviso, In a conveyance under the statute of uses, giving to the grantor or grantee,...
CONVENIENT
tempt in the spiritual courts is discontinued by 53 Geo. III. c.-127, § 2, and in lieu thereof, where a lawful citation or sentence has not been obeyed, the judge shall have power, after a certain period, to pronounce s...
CONVENIT
Lat. In civil and old English law. It is agreed; it was agreed.
CONVENTIONS
words, convention was the informal agreement of the parties, which formed the basis of a contract, and which became a contract when the external formalities were superimposed. See Maine, Anc. Law, 313.
CONVENTUAL CHURCH
eign countries as to the apprehension and ex-
CONVENTUS
Lat. A coming together; a convention or assembly. Conventus magnatum vel procerum (the assembly of chief men or peers) was one of the names of the English parliament. 1 Bl Comm. 148.
Convers v. Railway Co., 18 Mich
468; Taylor v. Gardiner, 11 R. I. 184; Ex parte Mc
CONVEYANCING COUNSEL TO THE
COURT OF OCHANCERY. Certain counsel, not less than six in number, appointed by the lord chancellor, for the purpose of assisting the court of chancery, or any judge thereof, with their opinion in matters of title and con...
CONVICTION
CONVIOT, v. To condemn after judicial investigation; to find a man gullty of a criminal charge. The word was formerly used also in the sense of finding against the defendant in a civil case. State v. Ellsworth, 181 N. C...
Cook v. Cook, 18 Fla
687.—Rule in Shel~ ley’s Case. A celebrated rule in English law, ropounded in Lord Coke’s reports im the folowing form: That whenever a man, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold, and in the same g...
Cook v. Equitable B. & L. Ass’n, 104 Ga
814, 30 S. E. 911. :
Cook v. Rogers, 31 Mich
396; Adams v. Storey 1 Fed. Cas. 141; Vanuxem v. Hazelhursts, 4
Cook, 159 Ii
800, 42 N. E. 796, 50 Am. St.
Cooke & Al
(or Alc.). Cooke & Alcock’s Reports, [irish "King’s: Bench. __. ~ Oooley. Cooley’ 8 Heports, vols. 5-12 Michigan.
Cooley v. Board of Wardens, 12 How
299, 138 L. Ed. 996; Blake v. Baker, 115 Mass, 188. :