Conge

In French Law. A clearance. A species of passport or permission to navigate. CONGE D'ACCORDER (Fr. leave to accord). A phrase used in the process of levying a fine. Upon the delivery of the original writ, one of the parties immediately asked for a conge' d'accorder, or leave to agree with the plaintiff. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.

See Ltcentta Concordandi; 2 Bla. Com. 350.

CONGE D'ELIRE (Fr. leave to elect). The king's permission royal to a dean and chapter in time of vacation to choose a bishop, or to an abbey or priory of his own foundation to choose the abbot or prior. Originally, the king had free appointment of all ecclesiastical dignities whensoever they chanced to be void. Afterwards he made the election over to others, under certain forms and conditions: as, that at every vacation they should ask of the king cong6 delire ', Cowell; Termes de la Ley; 1 Bla. Com. 379, 382. The permission to elect Is a mere form; the choice Is practically made by the crown. A letter missive accompanies the authority to elect, CONGE D'EMPARLER (Ft. leave to imparl). The privilege of an imparlance (Jicentia loqucndi).

3 Bla. Com. 299.

CONGEABLE (Fr. congt, permission, leave). Lawful, or lawfully done, or done with permission; as, entry congeable and the like.

Littleton, § 279.