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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. A body; a human body; an artificial as a corporation; a body or collection of laws something visible and tangible, as the subject or positive fact, as distinguished from what biguous; a corporeal act of any kind, on the to acquire a thing whereby he obtains the his power over it Corpus corporatum: a body, other than municipal. Corpus delicti: or foundation of an offense; the fact of its the body or substance of a crime as distinguished lar form given to it by its connection with subject of a crime, or its visible effect, such burned. Corpus humannm uon recipit body does not admit of valuation. Corpus term introduced in the middle ages, to signify ing several collections of law; — canonici: law; — civilis: the body of the civil law, as tutes, Pandects, Code and Novels.

Corpus body

A phrase expressing the liability of In old English laiv. Corpus cum causa: the writ which issued out of chancery, to remove record, touching the cause of a man lying ment for debt, into the King's Bench, there fied the judgment. Corpus comitatus: the county at large, as distinguished from any it V. De corpore comitatus. corporate name; incorpoendowed by law with the corporate; Body politic; Eleemosynary corpocorporation; Public corcorporation consisting of Corporation sole: a corposuccessors in some par- ' body, and by the mind; intent i; material. Corporeal of a material and tansenses, consisting wholly which may be compreland only. body created by law,; a material substance; of a right; a substantial is equivocal and ampart of one who wishes physical ability to exercise corporation; a corporate the body, substance having been committed; from the particuthe party accused; the as a body slain, a house %stimatiouem: the human juris: a body of law; a a book comprehendthe body of the canon composed of the Instipro corpore: body for manucaptors. body with the cause; a both the body and the in execution on a judgto remain until he satisbody of a county; the particular locality within in solido. Correi debendi: debtors in solido; two or more persons bound as principal debtors to another.