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Compassing

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Imagining or contriving. COMPATERNITAS (Eng. compaternity). In the canon law. A kind of spiritual relationship {cognatio spiritualis) contracted by baptism. It was a ground of divorce. Bracton, fol.

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CO M PATI Bl L ITY

Capability of harmony or accord. Of Offices. Such harmony between the duties of two offices that they may be discharged by one person. In Divorce Law. Incompatibility of temper is a ground of divorce in one or two states.