Comstock, 9 Mich
537. Specifically, in American mining law, a parcel of land constitutin
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CONDEDIT
claimants in presenting a demand against an insolvent estate.
Confl. Laws, § 507; 3 Bl. Comm
224. Otherwise called “heres eA testamento.” and ‘hares institutus.” Inst. 2, 9, 7; Id. 2. 14.—Heeres fideicommissarius. In the civil law. The person for whose benefit an estate was _ given to another (termed “heres fiductarius,” (q. vw...
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 Ricard v. Williams, 7
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.”
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 convenience of an entire community, suc...
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 where he may have his habitation a...
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.
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. Wharton; Cowell.
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 them, and in other cases of mora...
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, or a stranger, authority to r...
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 conveyancing. Mozley & Whitley.
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 gift or conveyance an estate is...
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
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 eee tort. A tort committed upo...
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 Pa. Dist. R. 89; Schaeffer v. 9...
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 owned the entire stock, as in the...
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 touch,” “corporal oath,” ...
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 of the day. Costs which are i...
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.
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, 85 Neb
381, 53 N. W. 211. —Collect on deli - See C. O. D.—Cole lector. One authorized to receive taxes or other impositions; as “collector of taxes.” A person appointed by a private person to collect the credits due him —Oollector of decedent's es...
Coup
(or Coup. Just.). clary Reports, Scotland.
COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRI
MONIAL CAUSES. This court was established by St. 20 & 21 Vict. c. 85, which transferred to it all jurisdiction then exercisable by any ecclesiastical court in England, in matters matrimonial, and also gave it new powers. The court consisted of the lo...
COURT FOR THE TRIAL OF IM
PEACHMENTS. A tribunal empowered to try any officer of government or other person brought to its bar by the process of impeachment. In England, the house of lords constitutes such a court; in the United States, the senate; and in the several states, ...
COURT OF APPEAL, HIS MAJ
ESTY’S. -The chief appellate tribunal of England. It was established by the judieature acts of 1873 and 1875, and is invested with the jurisdiction formerly exercised by the court of appeal in chancery, the exchequer chamber, the judicial committee...
COURT OF AUGMENTATION
COURT OF APPEALS. In American law. An appellate tribunal which, in Kentucky, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and New York, is the court of last resort. In Delaware and New Jersey, it is known as the “court of errors and appeals;” in Virginia ...
COURT OF AUGMENTATION. An
English court created in the time of Henry VIII., with jurisdiction over the property and revenue of certain religious foundations, which had been made over to the king by act of parliament, and over suits relating to the same. ,