A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

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

[L. Lat. cohaeredes participes, coparticipes.] Persons holding an estate in coparcenary. See Coparcenary. Persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it

Colpare. L. Lat. [L. Fr. copper.] To fell, cut, or chop, as wood. Spelman.

Lat. A coparcener. Co, Enir.Sll.lll.

See Partner.

See Partnership,

Sax. A hill. Co. Litt. 4 b. The top or summit of a thing, as of a house. Cowell, A tribute paid out of lead mines in England. Blount.

Lat. Opportunity or means of access. Copiam/acere; to grant opportunity of access. Sui copiam facere; to put one's self within another's reach; to grant the means of access; to app

Lat. [L. Fr. copie.] A copy. Copia libelli; the copy of a libel. Reg. Orig. 58. Breve de copia libelli deliberanda; a writ to deliver the copy of a libel. Id. ibid. Co. Litt. 57 b.

Fr. Copy. Litt, sect. 13. 76. See Copy. Co#Blatto TWhrnrmm ia4leat acee#taci«- ■•m %m —^m Mua. Coupling of words together shows that they are to be understood in the same sense. Ba

[L. Lat. copia; Fr. copie.] The transcript or double of an onginaJ writing, as a charter, roll, patent, deed, writ, pleaaing, affidavit, c&c* Termesdelaley. Cowell. Copies are of t

C(^hold, [L. Lat. tenu^ ra per copiam rotuli curies; Fr. tenure per copie de court rol^ A tenure or holding by copy of court roll. A species of estate at will, or customary estate

Copiholder. Jf L. Fr. tenant per copie de court rot] In English law. A tenant by copyhold; so called from the copy of the court roll delivered to him by the steward of the manor, a

formerly termed COPY. The exclusive right which the law allows an author (or a person purchasing from an author) of printing, publishing and selling a written composition during a

See Coraagium.

Lat. [from corus, a measure of com.] In old English law. A species of common tribute or prestation, mentioned by Bracton, as arising on certain necessary and unusual occasions, and

Lat. Before; in presence of. Applied to persons only. Towns, PL 22. Brevia coram rege, vel coram jusii Hariis de banco, vel coram justitiariis itinerantibus; writs before the king,

Lat. Before the king himself. The style of the court of King's Bench, it having been originally held before the sovereign in person. 3 Bl. Com. 41. Bract fol. 362.

Lat. (Before us.) In English practice. The name given to writs of error on judgments of the court of King's (or Queen's) Bench, so called from that clause in the old forms which de

Lat. Before one who is not a judge, or who has not jurisdiction. 3 BL Com. 111. 10 Co. 76. Where an action is brought in a court whereof the judges have not any jurisdiction, it is

Lat. Before the peers or freeholders. Feud. lib. 2, tit. 32. The attestation of deeds, like all other solemn transactions, was originally done only coram paribus. 2 BL Com. 307. Co

Lat. Before the suitors. Cro. Joe. 682.

Lat. (Before you.) In English practice. A name given to writs of error on judgments of other courts than the King's (or Queen's) Bench; especially the court of Common Pleas. See Co

Fr. Passing; running; current. Kelham,

[L. Lat. cornagium, from corn Uf a horn.] In old English law. Service of the horn. A kind of tenure in grand serjeanty, the service of which was to blow a horn, when any invasion o

Lat. [from cornu, a horn.] To wind or blow a horn. Spelman.

Rents reserved in corn, that is, in wheat or malt. Proportions of rents on college leases, [being one- third,] directed by the statute 18 Eliz. c. 6, to be reserved in wheat or mal

An abbreviation of (7om«hia, Cornwall, in old English pleadings and records. Towns, PL 147. Cowell, Appendix.

Lat. See De Corodio habendo.

Corrodium, Corredium. L. Lat. A corody. Spelman. 2 Inst. 630. See Corody.

Corrodf/. [L. Lat. corodium, corrodium.l In old English law. A right of sustenance; or a right to receive certain allotments of victual and provision for one's maintenance. Finch,

Lat. [Fr. corone.] The crown. Pladta coroncs; pleas of the crown; criminal actions or proceedings, in which the crown was the prosecutor. Sec Pleas of the crown.

See De coronatore eligendo.

See I>e coronatore exonerando.

[L. Lat. coronator, from corona, the crown. See infra.l A county officer of great antiquity at the common law, whose powers and duties are both judicial and ministerial, but princi

[Lat. corporalis, corporale, from corpus, q. v.] Bodily; personal. Corporal oath. [Lat. corporale sacramentum.] An oath taken by laying hand on the gospels, as by actual contact of

Lat. A corporal oath. Reg. Orig. 95 b. Bract, fol. 74.

Lat. [from corpus, a body.] That which has a body or material substance; corporeal. Corporales res; corporeal things; things which may be touched and seen; such as land, garments,

[L. Lat. corporatutn.] Belonging to a corporation; as a corporate name. Incorporated; as a corporate body.

[L. Lat. corporatio, corpus corporatum.] An artificial person or being, endowed by law with the capacity of perpetual succession; consisting either of a single individual, (termed

In English law. The statute 13 Car. XL st. 2, c. 1; by which it was provided that no person should thereafter be elected to ofi Bice in any corporate town, that should not» within

A collection of several individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, and having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and vested by the policy of the la

A corporation consisting of one person only, and his successors in some particular station, who are incorporated by law in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages,

A member of a corporation.

[Lat. c<yrporalis:\ That which can be touched and seen; material. Co. Litt, 9 a.

Such hereditaments as are of a material and tangible nature, and may be perceived, by the senses, consisting wholly of substantial and permanent objects, all which may be comprehen

Lat. [from corpus, a body.] That which has a body or material substance; corporeal. Corporales res; corporeal things; things which may be touched and seen; such as land, garments,

Lat. The body of a county. Molloy de Jur. Mar. 231. Cro, Jac, 514. 5 Howard's R, 452, 453, 462. 5 Mason's R. 290. The county at large, as distinguished from any particular locality

Lat. The body, substance or foundation of an offence. The substantial and fundamental fact of its having been committed. Lord Stowell, 1 Haggard's C, i?. 105. Best on Presumpturns,

Lat. A body of law. A term introduced in the middle ages to signify a book comprehending severS collections of law. There are two principal collections to which that appellation is

Lat. The body of the canon law. 1 Bl. Com. 82. See Canon law. Jus canonicum. CORPUS JURIS CI7ILIS. Lat. The body of the civil law, as composed of the Institutes, Pandects, Code and

Lat. A corody. Spelman. See Corodium, CORREL Lat. In the civil law. Costipulators; joint stipulators. Hsinecc. JEl, Jur. Civ, lib. 3, tit. 17. Hallifax Anal, b. 2, ch. 16. See Reus

Lat. In Scotch law. Two or more persons bound as principal debtors to ano Uier. Ersk, Inst, b. 8, tit. 3, § 74.

In English criminal law. The extinguishment of the inheritable quality of a person's blood in consequence of attainder for treason or other felony, so that he can neither inherit a

Lat. Corruptly. Cro. Jac, 104.

In English law. A mortuary or customary gift, due to the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner, was anciently so called from its being brought to church along with the

[from Sax. cors, a curse, and sned, a cake or piece of bread.] In Saxon law. The morsel of execration; (panis conjuratus; offa execrata.) A species of ordeal in use among the Saxon

Lat. A court or hall. Spelman, See Curtis.

Lat. A yard or court adjoining to a country farm; a curtilage. Cowell,

See Cosinage.

In old English law. An offence, mentioned in the old books, where any thing waa done deceitfully, whether belonging to contracts or not, which could not be properly termed by any s

In old English law. A feudal prerogative or custom for lords to lie and feast themselves at their tenants' houses. Cowell.

Cosenage, L. Fr. [L. Lat. consanguinitas,'] In o]d English law and practice. Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. Co. Zi«. 160a. The name of a writ (bi'eve d

[Lat. corporalis.] That which can be touched and seen; material. Co. Litt. 9 a.

Fr. Costs. Stat. Westm. 1, c. 1. Stat. Qlocest. c. 1. Britt. c. 17. Lord Coke derives this word from the verb conster, and that again from the verb consiare; "for these cosiages mu

Fr. A, or the side. De coste; from or on the side; collateral. BHtt. c. 89, 119.

Lat. [from Fr. costier; Lat. costa, a side.] In old English law. A coast; sea coast or shore; sea side; (litus; regionis pars mari finitima.) Spelman. Towns. Pl. 224. Per costeram

[L. Lat. custus, misce; Lat. expensce litis; L. Fr. costages."] In practice. The expenses which are incurred either in the prosecution or defence of an action, or m any other proce

Lat. Costs of increase. See De Incremento, In* crease.

Costs which are incurred in preparing for the trial of a cause on a specified day, consisting of witnesses' fees, and other fees of attendance. Archb, AT. Prac. 281. Holthouse.

Chota. L. Lat. [Sax. cote.] In old English law. A cot or hut, {tugurium.) Spelman. Blount.

Lat. [from cota, q.r. In old English law. A cottage; sm; " house or cot. Spelman. Skep. Touch. 10 Co. Litt. 66 b. See Cottage.

Lat. [from cote, q. v.] In old English law. A cottager, or cotter. Spelman. Domesday.

Lat. In old English law. A cottager. Considered by Spelman and others the same with cotarius. Spelman. Co. Litt. 66 b. But Cowell makes the distinction that the cotarius had a free

COTSETHLAND. In old English law. Land held by a cottager, whether in socage or vi Uenage. Cowell.

Lat. In old English law. A cotman, or cotter. Domesday. Spelman.

[from Sax. cote, a cottage, set, or seth, a seat, and land.] In old English law. The seat of a cottage, including any land belonging to it. Spelman.

COTSETHUS. L. Lat. [Sax. cotsete; the inhabitant of a cottage.] In old English law. A cottager who, by servile tenure, was bound to work for the lord. Cowell. LL. Hen. I. c. 30. Sp

[L. Lat. cotagium, q. v.] A little dwelling house, without land. Shep. Touch. 94. Co. Litt. 56 b. 1 Crabb's Real Prop. 68, 69, § 87. Cowell, voc. Cotage. Properly, however, a cotta

Fr. An enclosure. Britt. c. 71.

Fr. [from coucher, to lie down; Lat. cubans, cubantes.] In old English law. Lying down. See Levant.

Fr. Advice and direction in law. Artie, sup. Chart, c. 11.

[L. Fr. conseil, conseill, councel.] In practice. An advocate, counsellor or pleader. 3 £1. Com. 26. 1 Kent's Com. 307. One who assists his client with advice, and pleads for him i

COUNSELLOR AT

Countee. L. Fr. or Anglo- Norm. [Fr. comte; L. Lat. comes.'] In old English law. An officer who anciently was the chief or governor (prafectus vel prcepositus,) of a shire in Engla

In old English law. A count or earl. Britt. fol. 1. A county. Id. fol. 2. A county court. Mirr. c. 1, sect. 15. Kelham.

[L. Lat. contenementum.] In old English law. Credit or estimation. Cowell. 2 Inst. 28. See Contenementum.

[L. Lat. narrator.] A pleader. See Cottntor,

[L. Lat. computatorium.] The name of two prisons formerly existing in London, the Poultry Counter and Woodstreet Counter, for the use of the city, to confine debtors, peace breaker

In practice. An affidavit in opposition, or contradictory to another affidavit; an affidavit made by a party against whom a motion or application IS made to a court or judge on aff

[L. Fr. contrefait; L. Lat. contrafactum.] That which is made in imitation of something, but without lawful authority, or contrary to law; and with a view to defraud, by passing th

See Forgery,

Fr. [L. Lat. narrare.] To count; to plead. Ne soit oye en la court le roy a counter pur nulluy; shall not be heard to plead in the king's court for any man. Stat. Westm. 1, c. 29.

In the civil law. An instrument in writing, executed by the lender of money to whom property has been conveyed by an absolute deed as security, by which he agrees, on payment of a

[L. Lat. contramandatum, from contramandare, q. v.] In practice. A new or opposite direction; an order made contrary to a former one, for the purpose of avoiding or suspending it;

In conveyancing. The corresponding part of an instrument; a duplicate or copy. Where an instrument of conveyance, as a lease, is executed in parts, that is, by having several copie

[L. Lat. contraplacfdim.] In pleading. A plea of an inci« dental kind, and now of rare occurrence, diverging from the main series of the allegations in a cause. As where a party de

[L. Fr. contrerouU, conterrolle; L. Lat. contra rotulus,"] In old English law and practice. A roll kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.* Shenffe and coroners

Fr. Count, or reckon. In old practice. A direction formerly given by the clerk of a court to the crier, after a jury was sworn, to number them; and which Blackstone says was given

Fr. & Eng. [L. Lat. narratio.l In pleading. A statement of a plaintiff's case in court, being the first in the series of the pleadings in an action;• a declaration, particularly in