Code Ala
1886. § 4407. 18986, § 1892.
Terms beginning with "C" (875 total)
Code Cal
1903, § 94. Either personal violence or the reasonable apprehension there of, or a systematic course of ill treatment affecting health and endangering life. -Morris v. Morris, 14 Cal. 79, 73 Am. Dec. 615; Harratt v. Har...
Code Cal. § 917; Code Ala
1886, § 4364. And see Grin v. Shine, 187 U. 8. 181, 23 Sup. Ct 08, 47 L. Ed. 180; State v. Walker, 82 N. O 236; Ex parte Hart, 63 Fed. 259, 11 C. C. A. 165, 28 L. R. A. 801; Ex parte Bain, 121 U.
Code Civ. Pro
(or Proo.). Code of Civil Procedure.
Code Civ. Proc. Mont
1895, § 3469.—Judicial separation. A separation of man and wife by decree of court, less complete than an absolute divorce: otherwise called a “limited divorce.” —Judicial statistics. In English law. Statistics,...
Code Ga
1882, § 4306. People v. Schwartz, 82 Cal. 160: Fixmer vy. People. 1538 Hl. 123, 38 N. E. 667: State v. Berger. 121 eels 581. 96 N. W. 1094; People v. Ah Ping, 27 Cal. 489; United States v. Hartwell, 26 Fed. Cas. 198. 1...
Code La
1900, art. Also one who may accept the succession. Succession of Gusman, 86 La. Ann. 299. . ee art. 1227; Miller v. Miller, 105 La. 257, 29 South. 802. art. 1761; Fisk v. Police Jury, 34 art. 1764. art. 50. art. 352...
Code La, art
3484; vis v. Gaines, 104 U. 8. 400. 26 I. Ed. 757: Sunol v. Hepburn, 1
Code Mont
1895, § 1110; Rev. Codes N. D. 1809, § 3288; Civ. Code S. D. 1903, § 204. —Present use. One which has an immediate existence, and is at once operated upon by the statute of uses,
Code noir
Fr. The black code. A body of laws which formerly regulated the institution of . slavery in the French colonies.—Code of Juse tinfianmn. The Code of Justinian (Coder Justinianeus) was a collection of imperial constitue...
Code Or. Pro
iss Proc.). Code of Crim-
Code, and an appeal will lie
lLovinier v. Pearce, 70 N. C. 171. :
Codes & St. Or
1901, § 689.—Legal evidence. A broad general term meaning all admissible evidence, including both oral and documentary, but with a further implication that it must be of such a character as tends reasonably and substa...
COFFERER OF THE QUEEN’S
HOUSEHOLD. In English law. A principal officer of the royal establishment, next under the controller, who, in the countinghouse and elsewhere, had a special charge and oversight of the other officers, whose wages he paid...
Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym
909; Adams v. Mortgage Co., 82 Miss. 263, 84 South. 482, 17 L. R. A. (N. S.) 138, 100 Am. St. Rep. 633; 909. Jones,
COGNATES
(Lat. cognati.) Relations
COGNATI
Lat. In the civil law. Cognates; relations by the mother’s side. 2 BI.
COGNATIO
whether he would become to her a paterfamilias, (master of a family.) On his replying in the affirmative, she delivered her piece of money and herself into his hands, and so became his wife. Adams, Rom. Ant. 501. Lat. I...
COGNATION
COGNATION. In the civil law. Signifiles generally the kindred which exists between two persons who are united by ties of blood or family, or both.
COGNATUS
Lat. In the civil law. A relation by the mother’s side; a cognate. A relation, or kinsman, generally.
COGNITIONES
Ensigns and arms, or a military coat pene with arms. Mat.
COGNITIONIBUS MITTENDIS.. In
English law. A writ to a justice of the common pleas, or other, who has power to take a tine, who, having taken the fine, defers to certify it, commanding him to certify it.
COGNOVIT ACTIONEM
(He has confessed the action.) A defendant’s written confession of an action brought against him, to which he has no available defense. It is usually upon condition that he shall be allowed: a certain time for the paym...
COH ARES
- the command of one who was entitled to
Coite v. Lynes, 33 Conn
115; Bell v. Josselyn, 3 Gray (Mass.) 311, 63 Am. Dec. 741.
COJUDICES
Lat. In old English law. Associate judges having equality of power with others.
Coke, 39, 43; 2 Inst
511; 2 Bl. Comm. 350. —King’s widow. In feudal law. A widow of the king’s tenant in chief, who was obliged to take oath in chancery that she would not marry without the king’s leave.
Coke, 54; Shep. Touch
90; 2 BI. Comm. 18; 3 Bl Comm. 217; Broom, Max. 395.
Col
0.0. Collyer’s English Chancery Cases.
Colburn v. Groton, 66 N. H. 151, 28 Atl
98, 22 L. R. A. 768; Treitschke v. Grain Co., 10
Cold
(fTenn.) 461, 465, 78 Am. Dec. 499. (or Coldw.). Reports,
Cole v. White, 26 Wend
(N. EO ee Greel vy Smith, 10 Fed. Cas. 1077; 9 Wall. 135, 19 L. Ed. 651. (N. Y.) 516; Snowdon vy. Guion, 50 N. Y. Super. Ct. 143.
Cole, 57 Mo. App
11; Knight v. Indiana Coal
Cole, 6 Mod
212; Trust Co. v. Tod, 170 N. Y. 233, 68 N. E. 285; Boyce v. Brockway, 31 N. Y. 490; University v. Bank, 96 N.. G 280, 3 8. E. 359; Webber v. Davis, 44 Me. 147, 69 Am. Dec. 87; Gilman v. Hill, 36 N.
Cole, 80 Va
701; Black v. Caldwell (C. C.
Coleman’s Reports, vols
99, 101-106, 110- 129 Alabama.
Colgate (C. C.) 15 Fed
603; Robinson vy. Millard, 133 Mass. 230; United States Trust
Coll
(or ©.C.). Collyer’s English = cery Cases.
COLLATERAL
‘ sort of people, who, having a cord tied about such’ as sre not within, the statute of frauds. Eider vy. Warfield, 7 Har. & J. (Md.) 391.
COLLATION TO A BENEFICE. In ec
elesiastical law. This occurs where the bishop and patron are one and the same person, in ‘which case the bishop cannot present the clergyman to himself, but does, by the one act of collation or conferring the benefice...
COLLATIONE FAOTA UNI POST
MORTEM ALTERIUS. A writ directed to justices of the common pleas, commanding them to issue their writ to the bishop, for the admission of a clerk in the place of another presented by the crown, where there had been a dem...
COLLEGE
king may bestow his presentation on anothor.
College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat
691, 4 L. Ed. A20. :
College, 177 Ill
280, 52 N. E. 432, 42 L. R. A 797, 69 Am. St. Rep. 242; Warner v. Bennett, $1 Conn. 475; Blean v. Messenger, 33 N. J. Law, 503. A condition subsequent is one annexed to an estate already vested, by the per formance of wh...
COLLEGIA
pany or society of men, having certain privfleges, and endowed with certain revenues, founded by royal license. An assemblage of several of these colleges is called a “univer-
COLLEGIUM
Lat. In the civil law. A word having various meanings; é. g., aD &ssembly, society, or company; a body of bishops; an army; a class of men. But the principal idea of the word was that of an association of individuals of...
COLLIGENDUM BONA
See Ap COLLIGENDUM, etc.
Colo
210, 6 Pac. 816; Keiser v. Smith, 71 243; Halbert v. Alford (Tex.) 16 8S. W. 814. 285, 21 Pac. 483; Savannah v. Kelly, 108 U. 8. 184, 2 Sup. Ct. 468, 27 L. Ed. 696; 412; St. Louis Smelting & Refining Co. v. 486.—Ni...
Colo, 343
8 Pac. 575.—Estoppel by judgment. The estoppel raised by the rendition of a valid judgment by a eourt having jurisdiction which prevents the parties to the action, a all who are in privity with them, from afterwards di...
Colo. App
49, 59 Pac. 954. 377, .60 Pac. 186; Evans’ Appeal,