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Concurrence

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[Lat. cancursus, q. v.] In the civil law. A term applied to actions where two or more meet in, or may be brought by one and the same person.

1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 196, § 198.

It has not been adopted in the common law, though the participle " concurrent" is constantly used in expressing the same idea. See Concurrere, Concourse is the term used in Scotch law, although a concourse of actions is not allowed in that law, except in special cases. £rsk. Inst. b.

4« tit. 1, § 64.