Coupons

Those parts of a commercial instrument which are to be cut, and which are evidence of something connected with the contract mentioned in the instrument. They are generally attached to certificates of loan, where the interest is payable at particular periods, and, when the interest is paid, they are cut off and delivered to the payor. • COUR DE CASSATION. In French law. The supreme judicial tribunal and court of final resort. It is composed of forty-nine counsellors and judges, including a first president and three presidents of chamber, an attorney general and six advocates general, one head registrar and four deputy registrars appointed by the head registrar, and a certain number of ushers. Jones, Fr. Bar, 22; Guyot, Rep. Univ. The jurisdiction of the court is only on error shown in the proceedings of the lower courts in matters of law, taking the facts as found by the lower courts.