A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Mutuality; unity; a species of ing upon marriage under the laws of some one subject and anpleas of the crown, or nostram, sed teneantur not follow our court, but subditos, ex jure

Substitution, as, of a money payment tax for a personal service, or, after conviction, for another, particularly of a lesser punishment

In the civil law. A of the parties receives as much as he gives, what he gives.

An agreement or contract, usually of solemn kind; a contract or engagement between or the individuals of a community.

An association of persons for the some commercial or industrial undertaking, or ness.

I. In the civil law. or handwritings, v. Collatio signorum;

I. I. In old English law. Appearance.

A mode of proving a by comparing it with another, in order to were written by the same person.

I. I. Belonging to commonage, v.

h In the canon law. A kind of contracted by baptism.

compeir, I. I. In Scots law. To appear.

In Scots law. Appearance; an fendant; an appearance by counsel.

/. An abridgment Compendia sunt ments are losses or wastes [of labor or time].

Z. In the civil law. Compensation, ing resembling a set-oflf in the common law. In practice. Compensatio criminis: set-oflf of of recrimination in a suit for a divorce, v.

Eemuneration, recompense, as for attorney or oflficer; remuneration for disability, by express agreement property. for tithes, or of a of one punishment for a greater. contract in

Damages equivalent to the actual loss in respect to which they ai-e allowed.

I In the Roman law. The adjournment of a cause, in order to hear the parties or their advocates a second time; a second hearing.

I. I. In old English law. A judicial inquest by delegates or commissioners, to find out and relate the truth of a cause.

Legal ability, fitness or qualification; admissibility in evidence; propriety or sufficiency as a legal remedy.

v. Competency. In Scots law. Competent and omitted: a plea which might have been urged, by a party but was omitted.

I. In the civil and common law. To be proper, as a legal remedy; to lie, as an action; to be proper or available, as a pleading. Competit assisa: an assise lies. Competnnt hseredi

In Scots practice. The contest among creditors claiming on their respective diligences, or their securities.

A collection of parts of a book or books into a separate work.

To represent facts constituting a supposed injury or offense, to a court or officer having jurisdiction.

One who complains; the party suing in equity.

Representation of facts constituting a supposed injury or offense, to a court or officer having jurisdiction; in some jurisdictions the first pleading in a civil action.

I. I. Fullness of justice; full justice.

I. Having power, capacity or control. Compos mentis: having capacity of jnind; of sound mind. Compos sni: having power of one's self; having the use of one's limbs, or the power of

An agreement between a debtor and creditor by which of certain as in pounding or putting together; a mixture; in the law of copyright, an inventing or putting together of the parts

In old English law. A person accounting.

I. I. In old English law. An account; a statement of account; a book of accounts; the household book of a religious house, containing the items of its expenditure and income. Compo

To put together; to add, as, interest; to abate a portion upon agreement to render the residue, as. a debt or demand, v. Composition. Componnding a felony: taking a reward for forb

Composed of elements or parts. Compound interest: interest due an4 unpaid added to the principal to make a new pi-incipal for future computation. Compound larceny: a theft from the

In old English law. To print together; the surreptitious printing by one bookseller of another's copy.

I In the civil law. Children by a former marriage (individually called privigni or privignce), considered relatively to each other.

A mutual agreement between persons at difference, to put an end to such difference upon terms agreed on; a mutual agreement to submit matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrat

I. In the civil law. Relating to a compromissum or submission to arbitration.

I. In the civil and the canon law. A submission to arbitrators. ^

I. In the civil law. To submit to arbitration.

In Scots law. An accounting party.

v. Controller.

I In old European law. One who purged another from an accusation or charge, as in the trial by wager of law, or in the trial of a clerk for felony, by swearing with or after him, t

I. I. An account,

comyn, I. fr. a common thief or a

To secrete, hide, closure or discovery of information of a matter as, to conceal stolen to conceal a cause of stance in the making tract of insurance, v.

In old English lands; lands, i. e. which withheld from the crown.

v. Conceal

I. I. In old cealed. Concelamentnm:

I. In the civil was searched for, and nesses.

I. In old English of conveyance, properly without deed, and one of concedentem latam to have a broad interpretation

consilium, 1. I. of a court to hear Concilium non dedit advice, v. Dies concilii; In old English law. A council; another name mllitare: the king's privatum: the king's the king's s

I. In old practice, to draw a legal instrument.

To end, to determine; to

Decisive, final. Conclnsiye does not admit of explanation or itself, whether contradicted or plained, determines the matter at a presumption of law which cannot sumptio juris, etc.

Z. In the civil law. To extort from the fears of & person.

In old practice, an agreement by way of amends or satisfaction; ties to a fine, how and in what fine itself, v. Accord and satisfaction;

I lu old practice, agreed, agreed or unanimous, — said of the

L In old English law. agreement of a jury. v. Concord. In the canon law. Concordia mony of the discordant canons; a tutions made A. D. 1151.

The cohabitation of a is not married ', a plea or exception the claimant was not lawfully married sought to be endowed. In the civil law. A sort of half or

Awoman with whom a In the civil law. Awoman taken to the character of a wife, but without

I. In old English law. To foot Conculcavit et cousumpsit:

To meet; to unite; to co-exist, as in opinion; to claim jointly with

I. In the civil law. A

In the civil law. Actions or may be brought by,one and the

L In the civil law. To equally available for attaining a currens, concurrentes: concurrent.

I. In the civil law. A running currence; a collision or conflict. rence or concourse of actions, v. conceive; to express in words; to estop, to bar or shut out. inference or deduct

To adjudge guilty; to declare customs or revenue laws; to adjudge of war; to adjudge necessary for less or unfit for service, as a vessel.

v. Condemn. one is adjudged to pay; the damages tion is adjudged to pay.

I. To make or establish. ing a will which avers that the sound mind.

t In the civil law. A the person, in which the plaintiff to be given to him. Condictio certi: do a thing, where the promise is sonal action, arising from a particular action to rec

I. A condition. Conditio strait, benigne, secundum Terbornm tanda; odiosa autem, quae statnm yerborum proprietatem est which creates an estate is to be the intention of the words;

Mode or state of being; cation annexed to a right, an interest, be created, enlarged or defeated. tion which consists in doing a thing. dition where the act to be done compulsory:

Dependent upon condition; as, a conditional contract, deed, liability, obligation, etc. Conditional fee: a fee restrained to some particular heirs exclusive of others. Conditional

I. Conditions. Cbnditiones qus Blibet odiosae; maxlme autem contra matrimonium et commercium: any conditions are

l. In the civil law. To hira

I. In old English law. To forgive; to remit.

Forgiveness; the forgiveness, express or implied, by a husband or wife, of a breach of marital duty on the part of the other, — express when signified by words or writing, and impl

V. Safe conduct. Conduct! actio, I. In the civil law. An action which the hirer of a thing might have against the letter, v. Conductio.

t In the civil law. A hiring, v. Locatio.

In English law. Money paid to a witness who has been subpoenaed, for travelling expenses and maintenance.

I. In the civil law. A hirer. Conductor militum: a presser of soldiers. ''

I. Hired. Condnctum: a thing hired. Cone and key or Cofer and key. Accounts and keys, or lock and key. An old phrase, in part Saxon or early English, used to express the fitness of

confexion, confectloun, I. fr., Confectio, t I. In old English law. The making or execution of a written instrument. Confeccion d'la chartr': the making of the charter.

A combination between two or more persons to do any hurt or damage to another, or to do any unlawful thing; a conspiracy.

Union by league or mutual contract; federal compact

I. A confession. Confessio in judicio: a confession made in or before a court; — omni probatione major est: a confession made in court is of greater effect than any proof. Confessu

Acknowledgment, admission. Confession and avoidance: the admission of the truth of an averment in the pleading of the opposite party, coupled with an averment of a fact, which obvi

v. Pro confesso.

v. Confirmare; Confirmation.

I. In old English law. A confirmation. Conflrmatio chartai'um: confirmation of the claarters; a statute passed 25 Edw. I. confirming Magna charta and the Carta de Foresta. Conflrma

A conveyance of an estate or right in esse, by which a voidable estate is made sure and unavoidable, or whereby a particular estate is increased and enlarged.

To adjudge to be forfeited to the public treasury; to condemn private forfeited property to public use.

Confiscated; forfeited to the treasury of the king or state; seized as forfeited, v. Bona confiseata.

The act of condemning and adjudging to the public treasury. of a person who has acquired rightp, or become subject to duties, within the limits of more than one state or country.

I. In civil and old English law. To make or execute, as a deed or other written instrument Conllciendus: to be made. Confectus: made.

I. In the civil law. Confusion; a pouring or fusing together; a mixture of liquids belonging to different persons, v. Commixtio; Confusion.

The intermixture of the goods of two persons, so that the several portions cannot be distinguished; the blending of the characters of debtor or creditor in the same person; the uni

v. Bill in equity.

The bringing of a witness into presence of an accused person against whom he testifies, that he may be objected to, and also that he may identify the accused.

connge, congy, I. fr. In old English law. Leave; liberty or permission. Conge d'accorder: leave to accord or agree. One of the formalities anciently observed in levying a fine. v.