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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A convention; a pact; an agreement. The term is generally confined to the agreements made between independent governments, and most usually applied to those between the pope and some prince. CONCORDIA (Lat.) In old English law. An agreement, or concord. Fleta, lib.

5, c. 3, § 5.

The agreement or unanimity of a jury, compellere ad concordiam. Fleta, lib.

4, c. 9, § 2.

CONCORDIA DISCORDANTIUIVI CANOnum

The harmony of the discordant canons. A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions made by Gratian, an Italian monk, A. D. 1151; more commonly known by the name of Deoretum Gratiani.

1 Bl. Comm. 82.

CONCORDIA PARVAE RES CRESCUNT et opulentia lites. Small means increase by concord, and litigations by opulence.

Coke, 4th Inst. 74.