Cone And Key

A woman at fourteen or fifteen years of age may take charge of her house, and receive cone and key, — that is, keep the accounts and keys. Cowell. Said by Lord Coke to be "cover and keye," meaning that at that age a woman knew what in her house should be kept under lock and key. Coke, 2d Inst. 203.

A woman at fourteen or fifteen years of age may take charge of her house and receive cone and key (that is, keep the accounts and keys). Cowell. Said by Lord Coke to be cover and keye, meaning that at that age a woman knew what in her house should be kept under lock and key. Co. 2d Inst. 203. C0NFECTI0 (Lat. from conficere). The

In old English law. A women at fourteen or fifteen years of age m Inay take charge of her house and receive cone and ey; that is, keep the accounts and keys. Cowell. Said by Lord Coke to be cover and k Acye, meaning that at that agea woman knew what in her house should be Kept under lock and key. 2 Inst. 203.

(Accounts to receive cone and key keeping — at fourteen Condition compulsory or single: one some special thing to be done. Condition in fact: one made by special words, paropposed to condition in la Tw, or implied Condition inherent: one previously; as to pay the rent anciently reserved modem grant of land. Condition insenone contradictory to the main act, or incon-; impossible. Condition precedent which is to happen before the main act or from subsequent or resolutory. limitation. limited to descend to a particular class of Statute de Bonis into fee-taU. v. Fee. The limitation of an estate by deed under a third person on the happening of a cercutting short the previous estate in the from an estate on condition, or base or his heirs could alone take advantage of and the estate reverted to them; and where the estate was only expressed to happening of a certain event, and hence was reverted to the grantors as upon a natural detunc inspicere debemus cum signatempore: we ought to consider the comas at the time when they subscribed, not forgiveness. In cases of divorce, express or implied from actions, of a on condition that the fault shall not be paid a witness for his travelling exv. Locatio. and keys.) A woman was deemed fit — that is, to assume the cares of houseor fifteen, by the Saxon law.

[Cone or colne, Sax. an account.] A phrase (partly Saxon, or early English,^ used by Bracton in describing the privileges which a certain age gave a female in his time. Femina in tali cetate, (i. e. li vel 15 annorum,) potest disponere domui suce, et habere Cone et Keye. Bract, fol. 86 b. A woman at such an age, (14 or 16,) may take charge of her house, and have cone and key; (that is, keep the accounts and keys.) Spelman, A somewhat similar qualification in the son of a burgess is mentioned by Glanville, (lib. 7, c. 9;) and also by Bracton in another passage. Bract, fol. 86 b. fl 2. Some copies read cover et keye, as to which Spelman expresses a doubt. His own MS. copy of Bracton had cone aut keye. According to Lord Coke, "cover et keye" is the true reading, that is, cqfer and keye; meaning that a woman at the age mentioned was able to discern what things were in a household, fit to be kept in c<^er, under lock and key, 2 Injst, 203. See 1 Reeves' ffist, Eng, Law, 284, note. See Key,