Concurrence

In French law. The equality of rights, or privilege which several persons have over the same thing; as, for example, the right which two judgment creditors, whose judgments were rendered at the same time, have to be paid out of the proceeds of real estate bound by them. Diet, de Jur.

In French Law. The equality of rights or privileges which several persons have over the same thing; as, for example, the right which two judgment-creditors, whose judgments were rendered at the same time, have to be paid out of the proceeds of real estate bound by them. Diet, de Jur.

In French law. The possession, by two or more persons, of equal rights or privileges over the same subject-matter.

— Concurrence deloyale. A verm of the French law nearly equivalent to "unfair trade competition;" and used in relation to the infringement of rights secured by trade-marks, etc. It signifies a dishonest, perfidious, or treacherous rivalry in trade, or any manoeuvre calculated to prejudice the good will of a business or the value of the name of a property or its credit or renown with the public, to the injury of a business competitor. Simmons Medicine Co. v. Mansfield Drug Co.., 93 Tenn. 84, 23 S. W. 165.

In the civil law. Actions or may be brought by,one and the

In Frenchlaw. The possession, by two or more persons, of equal rights or privileges over the same subjectmatter.

[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.

French law. It is the equality,of rights, or privie lege which several persons have over the same thing; as, for example, the right which two judgment creditors, whose judgments were rendered at the same time, have to be paid out of the proceeds of real estate bound by them. Dict. de Jur. h. t. is the sentence of a court of competent jurisdiction that a ship or vessel taken as a prize on the high seas, was liable to capture, and was properly and legally captured. By the general practice of the law of nations, a sentence of condemnation is, at present, generally deemed _necessary in order to divest the title ofa vessel taken as prize; until this has been done the original owner may regain his property although the ship may have been in possession of the enemy twenty-four hours, or carried infra presidia. 1 Rob. Rep. 134; 3 Rob. Rep. 97, n.; Carth. 423; Chit. Law of Nat. 99, 100; 10 Mod.79; Abb. on Sh. 14; Wesk. on Ins. h. t.; Marsh. on Ins. 402. A sentence of condemnation is generally binding everywhere. Marsh. Ins. 402. The term condemnation is also applied to the sentence which declares a ship to be unfit for service: this sentence and the grounds of it may however be re-examined and litigated by parties interested in disputing it. 5 Esp. N. P. C.65; Abb. on Shipp. 4