BYE-BIL-WUFFA
or town. But of late the tendency isto employ the word “ordinance” exclusively for this class of enactments, reserving “by-law” for the rules adopted by private corporations.
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C. A. 89; Walker v. Giddings, 103 Mich
344, 61 N. W. 512.-Fraternal insurance. The form of, life (or accident) insurance furnished by a fraternal beneficial association, consisting in the payment to a member, or his heirs in case of death, of a stipulated sum of money, out of funds raised...
CAS FORTUIT
Fr. In the law of insurance. <A fortuitous event; an inevitable accident.
Casey, 26 Pa
287, 318; Railroad Commission v. Houston, etec., R. Co., 90 Tex. 340, 38 8. ‘W. 750; People v. Atlantic Ave. R. Co., 125 N.
CHAMBER BUSINESS
same as a challenge to the array. See supra.
CHECKER
The old Scotch form of exchequer. _
CHOSE IN ACTION
person to whom the debt is due. When it is said that a chose in action cannot be assigned, it means that a thing to which a right of action is annexed cannot be transferred to another, together with such right. Brown.
Clerk of the market
2 Inst. 543.—Olericus be overseer or su-
Co., 138 S. ©
267. Local customs are such as prevail only in some particular district or locality, or in some city, county, or town. ‘Bodfish v. Fox, 23 Me. 95, 39 Am. Dec. 611; Clou v. Wing, 2 Ariz. 371, 17 Pac. 457. Part r customs are nearly the same, being su...
Co., 39 N. Y. 45, 100 Am. Dec
400; Whipple v. Insurance Co., 11 R. I. 139.
Co., 45 Ill
808. And see Insurance Co. v.
Co., 6 Mo. App
235; Mark v. Insurance Co., 24 Hun (N. Y.) 569.
Co., 8 Cranch, 49, 3 I. Ed
481; Atkinson v. Insurance Co., 65 N. Y. 538; Atkinson v. Insurance Co., 4 Daly (N. Y¥.) 16; Patapsco
Coast Warehouse Co
(C. C.) 123 Fed. 750;
Code Ga
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 tions, compiled, by order of ...
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 the same rank and station, or...
Commercial Security Co
vy. McPherson, 7 Oki. 832, 54 Pac. 489.—jPrimary Rowers. The principal authority given by a principal to his agent. It differs from “mediate powers.” Story, Ag. § 58..
COMMEROE
12 How. 209, 13 L. Ex. 906; Trade-Mark Cases, 100 U. S. 96, 25 L. Ed. 550; Gibbons v.
COMMUNIS OPINIO
twelfth century, and formed into free corporations by grants called “charters of community.”
Company
2 Steph. Comm. 540, note.
CONDUCTOR OPERARUM
pecially those which are against [in re straint of} marriage and commerce. Lofft, Appendix, 644.
CONSUETUDINES FEUDORUM
([at. feudal customs.) A compilation of the law of feuds or fiefs in Lombardy, made A. D. 1170.
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.
Cont. Sale, nn
256, 308. So called because the bnyer acts without particular examination or discrimination, turning his face, as it were, away. Calvin.
Contract
COMMUTATIVE JUSTICE. See Jus- 2 Bl. Comm. 443; 2 Kent, Comm. 450; Linn v. .
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 individual, (McCarthy v. Second
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.
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corporation, ete., register their acts, 3 & 4