Black's Law Dictionary

In ecclesiastical law. That which consists of regniar clerks, professing some order or religion; or of dean and chapter; or other societies of spiritual men.

Religious men united in a convent or religious house. Cowell.

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

In the Roman law. A court of sessions held in the Roman provinces, by the president of the province, assisted by a certain number of counsellors and assessors, at fixed periods, to

One who is in the habit of being in a particular place is said to be conversant there, Barnes, 162. Acquainted ; familiar.

In old English law. Conversant or dwelling; commorant.

Manner of living; habits of life; conduct; as in the phrase "chaste life and conversation." Bradshaw v. People, 153 III. 156, 38 N. E. 652. "Criminal conversation" means seduction

The transposition of the subject and predicate in a proposition, as: "Everything is good in its place." Converse, "Nothing is good which is not in its place." Wharton.

In equity. The transformation of one species of property into another, as money into land or land into money; or, more particularly, a fiction of law, by which equity assumes that

To pass or transmit the title to property from one to another; to transfer property or the title to property by deed or instrument under seal. To convey reni estate is, by an appro

In pleading. Introduction or inducement. In real property law. The transfer of the title of land from one person or class --of persons to another. Klein v. McNkmard, 54 Miss. 105;

One whose business it is to draw deeds, bonds, mortgages, wills, writs or other legal papers or to examine titles to real estate. 14 St at Large, 118. He who draws conveyances; esp

Extraordinary assurances; such as private acts of parliament and royal grants.

Ordinary conveyances bstween two or more persons in the country; i. e., upon the land to be transferred.

A term including both the science and act of transferring titles to real estate from one man to another. Conveyancing is that part of the lawyer's business which relates to the ali

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 matte

n. One who has been condemned by a court. One who has been adjudged guilty of a crime or misdemeanor. Usually spoken of condemned felons or the prisoners in penitentiaries. Molineu

This term has a definite signification in law, and means that a judgment of final condemnation has been pronounced against the accused. Gallagher v. State, 10 Tex. App. 469.

In practice. In a general sense, the result of a criminal trial which ends in a Judgment or sentence that the prisoner is guilty as charged. Finding a person guilty by verdict of a

Such as is sufficient to establish the proposition in question. beyond hesitation, ambiguity or reasonable doubt, in an unprejudiced mind. Evans v. Rugee, 57 Wis. 623, 16 N. W. 49;

A tenure by which a tenant was bound to provide meat and drink for his lord at least once in the year. Cowell.

In ecclesiastical law. The general assembly of the clergy to consult upon ecclesiastical matters.

A naval force, under the command of an officer appointed by government, for the protection of merchant-ships and others, during the whole voyage or such part of it as is known to r

In the civil law. The name of a species of slander or injury uttered to public, and which charged seme one with some act contra bonos mores.

A joint obligor; one bound jointly with another or others in a bond or obligation.

In the law of homicide. Calmness or tranquillity; the undisturbed possession of one's faculties and reason; the absence of violent passion, fury or uncontrollable excitement.

Time to recover "cool blood" after severe excitement or provocation; time for the mind to become so calm and sedate as that it is supposed to contemplate, comprehend, and coolly ac

In economics. The combined action of numbers. It is of two distinct kinds: (1) Such co-operation as takes place when several persons help each other in the same employment; (2) suc

In old English law. The head or branches of a tree cut down; though coopertio arborum is rather the bark of timber trees felled, and the chumps and broken wood. Cowell.

In forest law. A covert; a thicket (dumetum) or shelter for wild beasts in a forest. Spelman.

In forest law. A thicket or covert of wood.

Covert; covered.

A concurring choice; the election, by the members of a close corporation, of a person to fill a vacancy.

Of the same order, rank, degree or authority; concurrent; without any distinction of superiority and inferiority; as, courts of "co-ordinate jurisdiction." See Jurisdiction. Co-ord

That which is possessed by courts of equal rank, degree, or authority, equally competent to deal with the matter in question, whether belonging to the same or different systems; co

A species of estate or tenancy, which exists where lands of inheritance descend from the ancestor to two or more persons. It arises in England either by common law or particular cu

Persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as an entire estate. 2 Bl. Comm. 187.

In old English law. A ceparcenor.

One who is a partner with one or more other persons; a member of a partnership.

A partnership.

In Scotch law. The contract of copartnership. A contract by which the several partners agree concerning the communication of loss or gain, arising from the subject of the contract.

A custom or tribute due to the crown or lord of the soll, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire; also a hill or the roof and covering of a house; a church vestment.

A merchant; a partner in merchandise.

Lat. In civil and old English law. Opportunity or means of access. In old English law. A copy. Copia libelli, the copy of a libel. Reg. Orig. 58. —Copia libelli deliberanda. The na

The name of a writ that lay where a man, could not get a copy of a libel at the hands of a spiritual judge, to have the same delivered to him. Reg. Orig. 51.

In Scotch practice. A true copy. Words written at the top of copies of instruments.

In English law. A crop or cock of grass, hay or corn, divided into titheable portions, that it may be more fairly and justly tithed.

See Mancipatio.

A small wood, consisting of underwood, which may be cut at twelve or fifteen ycars' growth for fuel.

In medical jurisprudence. A disposition or habit of using obscene language, developing unexpectedly in the particular individual or contrary to his previous history and habits, rec

The corporal consummation of marriage. Copula, (in logic,) the link between subject and predicate contained in the verb.

Coupling of words together shows that they are to be understood in the same sense. 4 Bacon's Works, p. 26; Broom, Max. 588.

One which is placed between two or more others to join them together.

The transcript or double of an original writing; as the copy of a patent, charter, deed, etc. Exemplifications are copies verified by the great seal or by the seal of a court. West

A species of estate at will or customary estate In England, the only visible title to which consists of the copies of the court rolls, which are made out by the steward of the mano

Commissioners appointed to carry into effect various acts of parliament, having for their principal objects the compulsory commutation of manorial burdens and restrictions, (fines,

A tenant by copyhold tenure, (by copy of court-roll.) 2 Bl. Comm. 95.

The right of literary property as recognized and sanctioned by positive law. A right granted by statute to the author or originator of certain literary or artistic productions, whe

Measures of corn. An unusual and extraordinary tribute, arising only on special occasions. They are thus distinguished from services. Mentioned in connection with hidage and carvag

Lat Before; in presence of. Applied to persons only. Townsh. PL 22. —Coram domino rege. Before our lord the king. Coram domino rege ubicumque tunc fuerit Anglue, before our lord th

Before our lord the king. Coram domino rege ubicumque tunc fuerit Anglue, before our lord the king wherever he shall then, be in England.

Before the king himself. The old name of the court of king's bench, which was originally held bsfore the king in person. 3 Bl. Comm. 41.

Before us ourselves, (the king, i. e., in the king's or queen's bench.) Applied to writs of error directed to another branch of the same court, e. g., from the full bench to the co

In presence of a person not a judge. When a suit is brought and determined in a court which has no jurisdiction in the matter, then it is said to be coram non judice, and the judgm

Before the peers or freeholders. The attestation of deeds, like ali other solemn transactions, was originally done only coram paribus. 2 Bl. Comm. 307. Coram paribus de vicineto, b

Before you. A writ of error directed by a court of review to the court which tried the cause, to correct an error in fact. 3 Md. 325 ; 3 Steph. Comm. 642.

A measure of wood, containing 128 cubic feet Kennedy v. Railroad Co., 67 Barb. (N. Y.) 177.

A person summoned to answer a bili, petition or libel, together with another respondent Now chiefly used to designate the person charged with aduitery with the respondent in a suit

To forfeit one's skin, applied to a person condemned to be whipped; anciently the punishment of a servant. Corium perdere, the same. Corium redimere, to compound for a whipping. Wh

In English law, a general term for any sort of grain; but in America it is properly applied only to maize. Sullins v. State, 53 Ala. 476; Kerrick v. Van Dusen, 32 Minn. 317, 20 N.

A spectes of tenure in England, by which the tenant was bound to blow a horn for the sake of alarming the country on the approach of an enemy. It was a species of grand serjeanty.

A combination among the dealers in a specific commodity or outside capitalists, for the purpose of buying up the greater portion of that commodity which is upon the market or may b

A commlssioned officer of cavalry, abolished in England in 1871, and not existing in the United States army.

The name of a writ to exact a corody of an abbey or religious house.

In old English law. A corody.

In old English law. A sum of money or allowance of meat, drink, and clothing due to the crown from the abbey or other religious house, whereof it was founder, towards the sustentat

In logic. A collateral or secondary consequence, deduction or inference.

The crown. Placita coronce; pleas of the crown; criminal actions or proceedings, in which the crown was the prosecutor,

In old English law. The clergy who abuse their character were so called. Blount.

In old records. To give the tonsure, which was done on the crown or in the form of a crown; to make a man a priest. Cowell. —Coronare filium. To make one's son a priest. Homo coron

To make one's son a priest. Homo coronatus was one who had received the first tonsure, as preparatory to superior orders, and the tonsure was in form of a corona, or crown of thorn

The oath administered to a sovereign at the coremony of crowning or investing him with the insignia of royalty, in acknowledgment of hls right to govern the kingdom, in which he sw

A coroner, (q. v.) Spelman. —Coronatore eligendo. The name of a writ issued to the sheriff, commanding him to proceed to the election of a coroner. —Corona-tore exonerando. Ini Eng

The name of a writ issued to the sheriff, commanding him to proceed to the election of a coroner.

Ini English law. The name of a writ for the removal of a coroner, for a cause which is to be therein assigned, as that he is engaged in other business, or incapacitated by years or

The name of an ancient officer of the common law, whose office and functions are continued in modem English and American administration. The coroner is an officer belonging to each

In England. A tribunal of reconi, where a coroner holds his inquiries. Cox v. Royal Tribe, 42 Or. 365, 71 Pac. 73, 60 L. R. A. 620, 95 Am. St. Rep. 752.

See CORONER.

Relating to the body; bodily. Should be dlstingulshed from corporeal, (q. n.) —Corporal imbecility. Physical inability to perform completely the act of sexuai intercourse; not nece

In old English law. A corporal oath. Corporalis injuria non recipit aestimationem de futuro. A personal injury does not receive satisfaction from a future course of proceeding, (is

Physical inability to perform completely the act of sexuai intercourse; not necessarily congenital, and not invariably a permanent and incurable impotence. Griffeth v. Griffeth 162

See Corporal.

An oath, the external solemnity of which consists in laying one's hand upon the Gospels while the oath ls administered to him. More generally, a solemn oath. The terms "corporal oa

Physical punishment as distinguished from pecuniary punishment or a fine; any kind of punishment of or inflicted on the body, such as whipping or the pillory ; the term may or may

Bodily touch; actual physical contact; manual apprehension.

Belonging to a corporation; as a corporate name. Incorporated; as a corporate body. —Corporate authorities. The title given in statutes of several states to the aggregate body of o

The title given in statutes of several states to the aggregate body of officers of a municipal corporation, or to certain of those officers (excluding the others) who are vested wi

This term, or its equivalent "body corporate," is applied to private corporations aggregate; not including municipal corporations. Cedar County v. Johnson, 50 Mo. 225 ; East Oaklan

The right to exist and do business as a corporation ; the right or privilege granted by the state or government to the persons forming an aggregate private corporation, and their s

When a corporation is erected, a name is always given to it, or, supposing none to be actually given, will attach to it by implication, and by that name alone it must sue and be su