A Law Dictionary and Glossary

fr. In old English law. Done with leave; done lawfully; lawfuL

An assembly of persons; an assembly of envoys, commissioners or deputies. In American law. The national legislature of the United States, consisting of the senate and the house of

2. I7i old English law. Burning; the punishment of burning, inflicted upon apostates and others. Combustio domorum: the burning of houses; house-burning; arson. Combustio pecuniae:

I In the civil law. A throwing or putting together; a putting of one fact with another, so as to show their relation, and indicate the consequence or inference; a presumption; a co

I. In the civil law. A throwing together; the putting of things together with the inference drawn therefrom; presumption. Conjectio causae: the throwing together of a cause; a summ

Supposition or surmise; the idea of a fact, suggested by another fact, as a possible cause, concomitant or result

conjuratus, I In old English law. others; a compurgator.

I I. In old English law. An associate judga

v. Restitution of conjugal rights.

Z. In old English law. Jointly. jointly and severally. Conjunctim et pro individually. Conjunctim tenens: a joint

As applied to rights, joint; as applied to per-

I In the civil law. Conjunction; a sentence.

I. To swear together; to combine oath.

/. In old English law. A swearing ministered to several together; a combination oath.

In old English law. A plot or bining by oath to do a public harm; having merce with pvil spirits, in order to discover some purpose.

A relation by which one person or or united to another; as applied to railways, as permits the passage of cars, or such an a convenient transfer of things carried.

Literally, a winking at; intentional

In English law. Cognizance or jurisdietion. Conusance of pleas. V. Cognizance.

I. fr. Against; in opposition to.

I. In the civil law. Marriage; a the marriage ceremony.

I. In modern civil law. A joint

2. 2. In feudal and old English law. quoestvs; Conquest.

conquestns, 1. 1. In feudal law. any means of acquiring an estate out of the conquest

L fr. In Norman and old English chaser of an estate; he who brought an estate

I. fr. In old English law. To acquire session of.

I. In old pleading. I complain. mihi injuste detinet — talem rem: I complain justly detains from me such a thing.

In old English and Scots law. The estate; he who brought it into the family

In feudal and Scots law. Purchase means of acquiring an estate out of the common ance; an estate itself, so purchased or acquired, acquest.

I I. In feudal law. A purchaser,

I In old. English law. An assembly; a convent Con- Tentus magnatum rel procenim: an assembly of the great men or nobles, — one of the old names of parliament. In the Roman law. Con

I. In civil and old English law. Conjunctim et divisiin: indiviso: jointly and tenant connection of words in or confederate tinder together; an oath ador confederacy under compact

Relation by blood, as opposed to afl Bnity; the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor, v. Collateral consanguinity; Lineal eonsanguirvi

courts of. Courts, not of record, in London, and other English towns, for the recovery of small debts; otherwise, called Courts of Requests, v. Requests.

I. In Scots law. Knowledge by a person in possession of property that the property belongs to another, which renders the possessor liable for what is called violent profits.

fr. In old English and French law. A counsellor. Conseillers on countours: counsellors or counters.

In the civil law. A contract formed by the mere consent of parties, as distinguished from a contract upon which something is delivered, as a contract of sale or bailment.

I. Consent Consensus est voluntas mnltorum ad quos res pertinet, siinul juncta: consent is the united will of many to whom a thing belongs. Consensus facit jus, or facit legem: con

A concurrence of wills; an agreement to something to be done or proposed to be done. v. Assent; Consensus. Consent rule: a stipulation in the form of a rule, by which the defendant

I. To consent; to agree to, or with. Cousentirc matrimonio non possunt iufra annos nubiles: parties cannot consent to man-iage within the years of marriage [i. e. before the age of

Damages following an act, but not the direct and immediate result of it.

In Scots law. Things which follow, usually by implication of law.

A protector, preserver or maintainer; an arbitrator, or umpire; in some jurisdictions, a guardian. Conservator of the peace: a preserver or keeper of the public peace. They were fo

I. I. In old English result of deliberation; to judgment shall be given for Consideratio cnrise, I. The ment of the court.

That which is rived from a contract; the a benefit accruing to him trouble or disadvantage to whom it is made. v. sideration; Executed consideration; Implied inal consideration; Pa

I. It is tions at law, the emphatic record, implying that the and declared by the court. sidered by the court The law. Consideratum fail: qno animo, quave Tolantate what intent or

I. I. It is considered.

I. In the civil law. in order to be deposited.

To deliver or transfer for sale; to transmit goods rier for sale, custody, etc.

In Scots laic. a third person when the

The transmission transmitted.

The person by whom

I. In old English siliarius et peritus in Consiliarins Tel advocatns: vel narrator: counsellor or or as a condition of the tenure of freeholders. The conservators of the latter cal

I. Counsel; advice; the act of an accessory in advising another to commit a crime; an imparlance. Consilia multornm reqnirnntnr iu magnis: the counsels of many are required in impo

In like casa A writ of entry which lay where a tenant by the curtesy, or tenant for life, aliened in fee, or in tail, or for another's life. It was brought by the reversioner again

I. The state council of the Roman emperors; a consistory.

A session, assembly or council of ecclesiastical persons; a spiritual court; the highest council of state in the papal government In English ecclesiastical law. Consistory court: a

consobrinse, I. In the civil law. Cousins german, in general; brothers' and sisters' children, considered in their relation to each other; more strictly cousins who are the childre

ital. The consulate of the sea. A collection of European sea-laws in force about the Mediterranean from the seventh century. Now considered the oldest existing maritime code.

Union; combination; amalgamation. Consolidation of actions: the combination of several actions into one; or of several causes of action of the same nature in one declaration. Conso

I. The company or society of a wife. In old English law. Company; society. In the civil law. ■ A union of fortunes; one of the names of lawful marriage, among the Romans; a union o

A combining together of two or more persons to accomplish some unlawful act, or some lawful act by unlawful means; an agreement or combination between two or more persons, falsely

A public civil of Bcer whose general duty is to keep the peace within a certain district, but who is by statute charged with certain duties in the service of process, — in this cou

In English law. The territoral jurisdiction of a constable.

Constabularius, l. Lat. A master of the horse; a commander of horse or foot; a naval commander; an officer assigned to guard or keep a place, as a castle or town; an officer whose

Z. It is clear or evident; it appears. Constat de persona: there is certainty as to the person; there is no doubt about the person. V. Nihil facit, etc.; Non constat; Quod constat,

One who appoints or constitutes; the person who appoints an attorney in fact

L In old English law. To constitute or appoint; to put in one's place; to make an appearance; to establish or ordain; to undertake to pay a debt Constitnimus: we have constituted o

I In old English law. An act, ordinance or statute; an establishment; a provision of a statute; establishment; creation, In the civil law. An imperial ordinance eflfect from the so

Estahlishment; appointment; rules, principles and maxims in accordance of sovereignty are habitually exercised; legislation by which the people, acting and mechanism of their gover

Relating to the forming of or secured or regulated by a constitution tution.

I. In the civil law. A promise any preceding stipulation, to pay money or another for whom he is surety.

v. Duress.

I. Construction. Constructio the construction of the law works [must jury-

A putting together; a putting an instrument; an arrangement or so as to extract, by a process of inference, drawing of conclusions from what is given subjects beyond, the words use

Made out or deduced by annexation: an annexation by inference the freehold. Constrnctive assent: assent Constructive brealting: a breaking law, as where a burglar gains an entry sp

To put together strument; to ascertain rangement and inference. Consuetudiiiarius, I. I. ing the rites and form monasteries. Consuetudinary law. from a remote antiquity. Consuetudi

contum, I fr. Toll or tribute.

I. A custom nating from usage. potius nsurpatio introduced against than a custom. a court Consuetudo liabentur: a custom held as nothing. law. Consuetudo best interpreter of usitat

In international law. A public agent, appointed by a government to reside in a foreign country, to watch over its commercial rights and privileges, and the commercial interests of

I. I. In old English law. Provided for. Applied to a church that was full.

In English law. A writ, in the nature of a procedendo, whereby a cause, being removed by prohibition out of the ecclesiastical court to one of the superior courts of law, is return

I. In the civil law. Designedly; intentionally.

Completed; as distinguished from initiate, or that which is merely begun.

I. fr. A contest, dispute, disturbance. Conteckonrs: brawlei-s; disturbers of the peace.

A having in view; the act of looking at or towards a thing with attention; consideration of an act or course of conduct, with the intention of doing or adopting it. Contemplation o

1. 1. Contemporary; contemporaneous. Contemporanea consuetudo optlmus interpres: contemporary custom is the best interpreter. Contemporanea expositio: contemporaneous exposition, o

Disobedience or disregard of authority; a disobedience to the rules, orders or process of a court, or a disturbance or interruption of its proceedings, v. Constructive.

I In old English law. Contempt; contempts.

I. I. In old English law. A contenement; that which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenement or thing held; countenance; appearance.

In English ecclesiastical law. That branch of the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts which is exercised on mattei-s in controversy, as brought before the court by action, or

I. fr. Against Conterminons,?. I. Having common boundaries; adjacent or adjoining.

I. fr. In old English law. A counter-roll. v. Counterroll

To defend a suit or othor judicial proceeding; to resist a claim by course of law; to litigate, on the part of a defendant v. Contestatio litis.

Lat. In old English law. The process of coming to an issue in pleading; the issue so attained. Contestatio litis eget terminos contradictarios: an issue requires terms of contradic

In actual contact; touching; near. Continens,2. In the civil law. Continued; continuous; holding togetlier;; joined together.

i. t In old English law. Continuance or connexion;; countenance, v. Contenementum.

An event that may or may not happen. Contingency frith a double aspect: a contingent remainder, limited in substitu-tion for another contingent remainder in fee-simple, v. Continge

Dependent upon the happening of that which may or may not happen. Contingent estate: an estate which depends for its effects on an event which may or may not happen. Contingent leg

I In old English law. To touch; to be connected with, or akin to.

1. I. By continuing. A word formerly used in a special declaration of trespass, by which the plaintiff recovered damages for several trespasses in the same action. Cotttinnins: con