A Law Dictionary and Glossary

In old English law. A formal claim by a party entitled to enter upon lands or tenements, but deterred by menaces or bodily fear,made for the purpose of preserving or keeping alive

The postponement of the proceedings in a cause, as putting oflf a trial, etc.; an entry on the record of a cause for the purpose of formally continuing it in court, or for the purp

Disobedience to the rules or orders of a court, especially a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned; open or persistent contempt

2. Against; contrary to. Contra bonos mores: against good morals. Contra forinam: contrary to the form; — feoffamenti: contrary to the form of the feoffment; a writ that formerly l

Against law or treaty; prohibited; goods exported from prohibited from carrying during war to the which by the law of nations a belligerent has ing a neutral from furnishing to an

A promise from a person or persons actual or implied in law, to do or to refrain from thing, such promise being under seal, or reduced or accompanied by a valid consideration, or f

Z. Contract; a contract; contracts. actus contra actnm: a contract is, as it were, tractus ex turpi cansa, vel contra bones contract founded on a base consideration, or null. V. Pa

I. In old English lau\ To oppose tradict

conterfacere, 1. 1. In old English or imitate; to devise, v. Oontrofacere.

I. I. In old English law. A facere; Controfactura.

'. To contract to draw together; to liability to or with another, v. Furiosus nultum, Contrahitur obligatio: obligation is conti-acted.

I. L In old English law. Counter ally, counter-binding.

Z. I In old English law. To countermand.

I. L In old English law. A tramandatio placiti: countermanding a plea; defendant or giving him further time to answer, ing the day fixed for him to plead, and appointing

1. 1 In old English taw. A terplea.

I. I In old English law. A plea or position.

1. 1 In old English law. A counter roll.

1. 1 In old English law. A tulator custumarum: controller of the customs. belligerent parties, or the right of preventas arms and munito another or others, doing some lawful to a j

I. I. In old English law. A counter-tally.

To oppose; to conflict. Contravening equity: a right which militates with another is sometimes so called.

I In old English law. To contravene; to go against; to violate.

In Scots law. The act of breaking through any restraint imposed by deed, covenant or court; an action founded on the breach of law burrows. Contraxisse unnsgnisqne in eo loco intel

I. In old English law. To treat. In the civil law. To handle; to take hold of; to meddle with.

I. A handling or meddling with; the improper or unauthorized use of a thing. Contrectatio rel alienge, animo farandi, est fnrtum: the touching of another's property with intent to

I Average; otherwise called tributum and collatio. In the civil law. Contribution.

The making up, by several persons jointly interested or indebted, of a loss sustained, or payment made by one for the benefit of aU; the providing by several persons in a common in

A member of a company being wound up who may be compelled to contribute to the assets for the purpose of paying creditors.

contributive. Helping or promoting the same end or purpose. Contributory negligence: negligence of an injured person which combines with that of the injurer to produce the injury.

1. 1 In old English law. To counterfeit

{. Z. In old English law. A counterfeiting.

An ofl Scer who has the inspection, examination or controlling of the accounts of other ofl Boers; one who keeps a counterregister of accounts. In old English law. An officer who t

In old English law. The controlling or checking of an-

L fr. To contriva Controvee: contrived.

A dispute; a civil action or proceeding. Controvert To dispute; to deny; to take issue on.

2. In the Roman law. The marriage of slaves; a permitted cohabitation.

I. In the civil law. A co-tutor, or co-guardian.

I. In old English law. To make firm, or strong; to give additional strengtli or validity. Couflrmare nemo potest prins quam jus ei arciderit: no one can confirm before the right ac

A person who enters into a recognizance for debt Connsee: the person to whom such a recognizance is given.

I. In the civil and old English law. To gain strength, force or validity; to become valid. Convalescit donatio facta a furioso: a gift made by a lunatic becomes valid, etc. v. Quod

corenable. In old English law. Suitable; agreeable; fitting.

Proper: just; suitable.

I. In old English law. To covenant Convenit, promisit et agreavit: he covenanted, promised and agreed. In the civil and old English law. To sue; to prosecute; to agrea Conveniri: t

I. In the civil and old English law. It is agreed; it was agreed. Convenit, promisit, et agreavit ad et cnm, etc.: he covenanted, promised and agi-eed to and with, eta

A private assembly for religious worship. First applied, as a term of reproach, to the religious assemblies of Wickliffe, but now usually applied, in England, to a meeting of disse

convencio, Lat. In old English law. A covenant; an agreement. Conventio duplicata: an agreement executed in duplicate, or in two parts. Conventio legi derogat: agreement derogates

In English law. An assembled parliament, before any act is passed, or bill signed; more properly, an extraordinary assembly of both houses, without convocation by the sovereign.

That which is produced by, or depends upon, agree-

2. 2. In old English law. Conversant or dwelling; commorant

To pass from one to another; to transfer property, or the title to property, by an instrument in writing; strictly to transfer by deed or instrument under seal; to carry or cdiiduc

A transfer of the title of property, usually realty, from one person to another; an instrument in writing by which such transfer is made; more strictly an instrument in writing und

A person who makes it his business to draw instruments of conveyance.

conveier, I. fr. In old English law. To derive title; to derive by descent; to show in pleading.

I. In the civil law. An injury done by words. A species of injury which consisted in charging a person with some act against good morals.

A person who is found guilty of an offense by the verdict of a jury, or other legal decision. In English law. Convict recusant: a person legally prosecuted, indicted and convicted

The finding of a person guilty of an offense vpith which he has been charged, either by decision of any competent tribunal, or on his own confession; a record of thd proceedings by

In English law. An assembly of all the clergy, for the purpose of consulting on ecclesiastical matters.

In international law. A naval force under the command of an ofl Scer appointed by government, or under its authority, for the protection of its merchant vessels on a voyage or a pa

A changing from one state or condition into another; a changing of partnership debts by consent of creditors from the joint debts of all the partners to the separate debts of the s

The business of drawing instruments of conveyance; the science and art of transferring titles by instruments of conveyance,— a science, as it embraces an acquaintance with the law

A joint obligor; one who is jointly bound with another in a bond or obligation.

Time for passion to subside and for reason to interpose after provocation.

co-opertorinm, I. I. In old English law. A covering or exterior coat, as the bark of a tree.

co-operta, 1 1. In old English law. Covered; covert, v. Covert.

A species of estate or tenancy in which there is unity of title, possession and interest. It arises where lands of inheritance descend to two or more persons so that they form one

Persons holding an estate in coparcenary.

I. I. In old English law. A coparcener.

copartnership, v. Partner; Partnership.

In Scots laic. The contract of copartnership.

COppe, saa:. A hill; the top or summit of a thing, as of a house; a tribute paid out of lead mines in England.

I. In civil and old English law. Opportunity or means of access. Copiam facere: to grant opportunity of access. Copiani habere: to have access, or the means of inspection. Copiam p

1. 1. In old English law. A copy. Copia libelli: the copy of a libel. V. Copy.

I. I. In old records, to cover. Coppire domum: to cope a house, or to lay on the roof and covering on the top of it Copnlatio verbornm indicat acceptationein in eodein sensn, I. Co

A transcript of an original writing, as a charter, patent, deed, writ, pleading, afl Bdavit, etc. Copies are of two principal kinds: copies under seal, which are called exemplifica

copihold. In English law. A tenure or holding of manor lands by copy of court-roll, originally a holding at the will of the lord, according to the custom of the manor, — a tenure o

copiholder. In English law. A tenant by copyhold.

The exclusive right of printing, publishing and selling a w^ritten composition during a certain period of time. The right extends to maps, charts, prints and musical compositions.

I. I. In old English law. A species of common tribute or prestation, arising on certain necessary and unusual occasions, and in that respect distinguished from ^ordinary services a

I. Before; in presence of. Applied to persons only. Coram nobis: before us; the name of a writ of error where proceedings of a court are to be reviewed by itself. Coram non judice:

I In old English law. To appear. pears. Comperuit: (he) appeared. Comperuit peared at the day; a plea to the action on a runt ad diem: they appeared at the day. appear. Comparentib

The person charged with adultery with the husband or wife in a proceeding for divorce on that ground.

In English law. Grain; including wheat, rye, oats and barley, and, in the common memoi'andum in policies of insurance, malt, peas and beans, but not rice. Corn rents: rents reserve

In old English law. Service of the horn; a kind of tenure in grand serjeanty, the service of which was to blow a horn, to alarm the country when an invasion by the northern enemy w

I. I In old English law. To wind or blow a horn.

An angle made by two boundary Unes; a manipulation of the market to make an article of commerce scarce or plenty at the will of the manipulators.

1. I. In old English law. A corner or angle.

v. De corodio habendo.

corrodium, corredluni, I. l, Corody, corrody. In old English law. A right of sustenance; the right of the founder of a religious house to an allowance of victuals, clothing, etc.,

I The crown. Flacita coronse: pleas of the crown; criminal actions or proceedinga v. Pleas of the arown.

I. I. A coroner.

v. De coronatore, eta Coronatore exonerando. V. De coronatore, etc.

A county magistrate of great antiquity at the common law, whose peculiar office is to inquire into the causes of violent or sudden deaths, by a jury of proper persons, upon view of

Bodily; personal. Corporal oath: an oath taken by laying hand on, or, it would seem, by otherwise touching, the gospels, i. e. by actual contact of the person.

I I. In old English law. A corporal oath.

corporale, I. In old English laiv. Having a body or material substance; corporeal; relating to or affecting the body; bodily; personal. Corporalis injuria non recipit sestiinatione

Belonging to a corporation, as a rated, as a corporate body.

An artificial person or being, capacity of perpetual succession, v. Body Civil corporation; Ecclesiastical corporation; ration; Municipal corporation; Private poration. Corporation

A member of a corporation.

That which can be touched and seen hereditaments: such hereditaments as are gible nature, and may be perceived by the of substantial and permanent objects, all hended under the gen

I In the civil law. By the by the physical act, and by the mental

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 bi