Cooley, Const. Lim
8. 441. hatever difficulty may be experienced in giving to those terms a definition which will embrace every permissible exertion of power affecting private rights, and exclude such as is forbidden, there can be no doub...
Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)
Coop
0.& P:R. Cooper’s Chancery and Practice Reporter, Upper Canada. t. Br. Cooper's Oases tempore Brougham. , t. Cott. Cooper’s Cases tempore Cottenham, English Chancery. - t. Eld. Cooper’s Cases tempore EBdon, Bngl...
Cooper y. Harter, 2 Ind
253. And see Bryan v. ngdon, 86 Fed. 221, 20 C. C. A. 670;
Cooper, 56 N. J. Eq
48, 38 Atl. 198) or an estate in lands not subject to be defeated upon any condition. In this phrase the word ‘“absolute” is not used legally to distinguish a fee from a life-estate, but a qualified or conditional
Cooper, 64 Conn
536, 30 Atl. 760; Smyth v. Lynch, 7 Colo. App. 383, 43 Pac. 670. This is where a person adopts a contract or other transaction which is not binding on him, because it was entered into by an une
COPARCENARY
may be termed “simple co-operation” and “complex co-operation.” Mill, Pol. Ec. 142.
Cope v. Vallette Dry-Dock Co
(C. C.) 16 Fed. §25.—Maritime state, in English law, consists of the officers and mariners of the British navy, who are governed by express and permanent laws, or the articles of the navy, established by act of paren ...
COPIA
Lat. In civil and old English law. Opportunity or means of access.
CORAM
Lat. Before; in presence of.
CORIUM FORISFACERE. To
forfeit one’s skin, applied to a person condemned to be whipped; anciently the punishment of a servant. Corium perdere, the same. Oorium rcedimere, to compound for a whipping. Wharton.
Corkle vy. Maxwell, 6 Fed. Cas
555.—Involuntary servitude. The condition of one who is compelled by force, coercion, or imprison- Taent, and against his will, to labor for another, whether he is paid or not. See State
Cormick, 10 Neb
1, 4 N. W. 312; Cagger v.
Corning v. Burden, 15 How
268, 14 L. Ed. 683; Westinghouse v. Boyden Power-Brake
COROLLARY
the king’s servants in an abbey; a pension being given to one of the king’s chaplains, for his better maintenance, till he may be provided with a benefice. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 250. See 1 Bl. Comm. 283.
Corp., 68 N. J. Eq
809, 58 Atl. 68; Falley v.
CORPORALE SACRAMENTUM. In
old English law. <A corporal oath.
CORPORATE
ure trove, who were the finders, and where it is, and whether any one be suspected of having found and concealed a treasure. 1 49 N. E. 424; State v. Andrews, 11 Neb. 523, 10 N. W. 410: Com. v. Upper Darby Auditors, 2 P...
CORPORATION
vy. Turley, 142 Mo. 403, 44 S. W. 267; Barber y. International Co., 73 Conn. 587, 48 Atl. 758; Sovereign Camp v. Fraley, 94 Tex. 200, 59 S. W. 905, 51 L. R. A. 898; Sellers v. to corporations of which the government own...
CORPORE ET ANIMO
Lat. By the body and by the mind; by the physical act und by the mental intent. Dig. 41, 2, 3.
CORPUS
(Lat.) Body; the body; an
CORPUS CHRISTI DAY
notes the nature or physical existence of a body; corporal denotes its exterior or the co-ordination of it with some other body. Hence we sperk of “corporeal hereditaments,” but of “corporal Dunenment “corporal t...
CORPUS HUMANUM
Corpus humanum non recipit sstimationem. The human body does not admit of valuation. Hob. 59.
CORREI
Lat. In the civil law. Costipulators; joint stipulators.
CORREOTOR OF THE STAPLE. In
old English law. A clerk belonging to the staple, to write and record the bargains of merchants there made.
CORSNED
then the verdict would stand not on the con-. fession, but upon those independent circumstances. To corroborate is to strengthen, to confirm by additional security, to add strength. The testmony of a witness is said to b...
CORTES = 278
Eng. Law, 30; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 21; 4 Bi.
CORTULARIUM, or CORTARIUM. In
old records. A yard adjoining a country farm.
COSTS
. Day v. Woodworth, 18 How. 872, 14 L. 181. Those extra expenses incurred which do not appear on the face of the proceedings, such as witnesses’ expenses, fees to counsel, attendances, court fees, etc. Wharton.—Costs...
Cotting, 178 Mass
68, 58 N. BD. 158; In re
COUCHER
OCOTERELLUS. In feudal law. A ser vile tenant, who held in mere villenage; his person, issue, and goods were disposable at the lord’s pleasure.
COUNCIL 280
corporation, ete., register their acts, 3 & 4
Council v. Fairman, 62 How. Prac
(N. Y.) 390. A physical disability is a disability or incapacity caused by physical defect or infirmity, or bodily imperfection, or mental weakness or aljenation; as distinguished from civil disability. whch relates to t...
Council, 59 N. J. Eq
321, 45 Atl. 111; Rector v. Drury, 8 Pin. (Wis.) 298.
COUNSEL
1. In practice. An advocate, counsellor, or pleader. 3 Bl. Comm. 26; 1 Kent, Comm. 307. One who assists his client with advice, and pleads for him in open court. See COUNSELLOR.
COUNSELLOR
purpose of advising as to the points of law involved, or preparing the case on its legal side, or arguing questions of law to the court, or preparing or conducting the case on its appearance before an appellate tribuhal,...
COUNT
rect the special pleadings, to manage the cause on trial, and, during the whole course of the suit, to apply established principles of law to the exigencies of the case. 1 (Fr.
COUNTER-CLAIM
COUNT-OUT. In English parliamentary law. Forty members form a house of commons; and, though there be ever so many at the beginning of a debate, yet, if during the course of it the house should be deserted by the members,...
COUNTER-PLEA. See PLEA
COUNTER-ROLLS. In English law. The rolls which sheriffs have with the coroners, containing particulars of their .proceedings, as well of appeals as of inquests, etc. 8 Edw. Lc. 10.
COUNTRY
when the court has jurisdiction of the cause by reason of the fact that some of the defendants are residents of the county or found therein. White v. Lea, 9 Lea (Tenn.) 450.
County v. Gwin, 136 Ind
562, 36 N. E. 237, 22 L. R. A. 402.
County v. Railroad Co., 167 Pa
102, 31 Atl. 474; Broughton v. Haywood, 61 N. C. 383.
County v. Wilgus, 42 Kan
457, 22 Pac. 615; Warde v. Manchester, 56 N. H. 509, 22 Am.
County v. Wood County, 109 Wis
330, 85 N W, 387; City of Lynchburg v. Slaughter, 75
County vy. Railroad Co., 81 Ky
227; Barnes vy. District of Columbia, 91 U. 8. 552, 23 L.
County, 105 Pa
303, 51 Am. Rep. 205; Hoyt v. U. S., 10 How. 135, 13 L. Ed. 348; Vansant v. State, 96 Md. 110, 53 Atl. 711.
County, 105 U. 8
650, 26 L. Ed. 1136.
County, 108 Cal
223, 387 Pac. 203, 26 L. R. 273, 41 Pac. 305; Landis v.
County, 108 Mass
202; Butchers’, etc., Ass’n v. Boston, 139 Mass. 290, 30 N. E. 94.—Right of way. See that title.
County, 108 Wis
330, 85 N. W. 387; Sayres v. Springfield, 8 N. J. Law, 169.
County, 118 Ga
570, 38 S. BE. 980, 54 LR. A. 202