Law Dictionary

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

One who sends or makes aconsignment. A shipper of goods, Consilia multorum queeruntur in magnis, 4 Inst. 1. The counsels of many are required in great things.

To send goods to a factor or agent. To deposit with another to be sold, disposed of or cared for, as merchandise or movable property; to send goods to an agent, commission merchant

See "Consign."

From co Tisignare, to seal up. In Scotch Law. The payment of money into the hands of a third party, when the creditor refuses to accept of it. The person to whom the money is given

The term “consignee” means a consignee as defined in section 1483 1 of this title. / “consignee” means the person named in a bill of lading as the person to whom the goods are to b

Consignment is a mercantile phrase, adopted to distinguish the person, to whose care a ship is addressed, and, when applied to the owners, it is merely in conformity to forms. It i

When, however, a 'consignment' device is used to cover a vast gasoline distribution system, fixing prices through many retail outlets, the antitrust laws prevent calling the 'consi

“consignor” means the person named in a bill of lading as the person from whom the goods have been received for shipment.

The advice of many is required in affairs of magnitude.

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

A counselor.

Lat. Destitute of hout legal counsel. A term api@ acls or condition of one aeting advice, as a testator drafting

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

or DIES CONSILII. A day appointed to hear the counsel of both parties. A case set down for argument. It is commonly used for the day appointed for the argument of a demurrer, or er

A day set for an argument or hearing.

In practice. A e, 24, which lay for the benefit of the rever. sioner, where a tenant by the curtesy aliene in fee or for life.

A writ by which a reversioner recovered land from the alienee of a life tenant.

Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term “consistency period” means the period consisting of— (i) the 1-year period before the beginning of the 12-month acquisition period

See Condition; Custom; Repeal.

Being composed or made up of. This word is not synonymous with "including;" for the latter, when used in connection with a number of specified objects, always implies that there ma

The state council of the Roman emperors. Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 58.

In ecclesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the pope. The consistory is either public or secret. It is public when the pope receives princes or gives audience to am

In English law. The courts of diocesan bishops held in their several cathedrals before the bishops' chancellor, or commissary, who is the judge, for the trial of all ecclesiastical

Courts held by diocesan bishops within their several cathedrals, for the trial of ecclesiastical causes arising within their respective dioceses. The bishop's chancellor or his com

In the civll law. Co.us-ins-german, in general; brothers' and sisters' children, considered in their relation to each other.

Lat An association, fellowship or partnership. Applied by some of the older writers to a corporation, and even to a nation considered as a body politic. Thomas v. Dakin, 22 Wend. (

A code of sea laws, compiled by order of the ancient kings of Arragon. It comprised the ancient ordinances of the Greek and Roman emperors, and of the kings of France and Spain, an

To unite into one distinct things or parts of a thing. In a genvarious funds. In parliamentary usage, to consolidate two bills is to unite them into one. In law, to consolidate ben

“consolidated” means consolidated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States consistently applied;

In England. A fund for the payment of the public debt.

In England. Usually abbreviated to consols. A fund for the payment of the public debt.

the term “consolidated funded debt” means the aggregate, after eliminating intercompany items, of all funded debt of the Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries, consolidated

The term “consolidated health programs” means the programs administered under the provisions of— (A) this subchapter (relating to maternal and child health and services for childre

A collection or compilation into one statute or one code or volume of ali the laws of the state in general, or of those relating to a particular subject; nearly the same as "compil

The term “consolidated local application” means an application submitted by a local educational agency pursuant to section 7845 of this title . / The term “consolidated local appli

The term “consolidated local plan” means a plan submitted by a local educational agency pursuant to section 7845 of this title . / The term “consolidated local plan” means a plan s

In subparagraph (C), the terms “metropolitan statistical area”, “consolidated metropolitan statistical area”, and “primary metropolitan statistical area” mean any area designated a

The orders regulating the practice of the English court of chancery, which were issued, in 1860, in substitution for the various orders which had previously been promulgated from t

The term “Consolidated Plan” means a comprehensive housing affordability strategy and community development plan required in part 91 of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations.

The purpose of requiring consolidated returns by affiliated corporations was, as the government contends, to impose the war profits tax, according to true net income and invested c

The term “consolidated State application” means an application submitted by a State educational agency pursuant to section 7842 of this title . / The term “consolidated State appli

The term “consolidated State plan” means a plan submitted by a State educational agency pursuant to section 7842 of this title . / The term “consolidated State plan” means a plan s

the term “consolidated tangible net worth” means the market value of the common equity of the Corporation as of the sale date, plus or minus the change from the sale date to the da

The purpose of the section was to provide a method of computing the tax upon the true net income of what is in practical effect a single business enterprise, with substantially com

The term “consolidated year” means any taxable year for which the affiliated group makes a consolidated return.

Its use is in the restricted sense of the formation of a 'single system for ownership' as well as for 'operation.' This distinction between control where separate ownership continu

In practice. The combination of several actions into one; or of several causes of action of the same nature in one declaration.* If two or more actions at law be brought by the sam

The combining of two or more actions involving the same controversy into one suit. See 1 Ala. 77.

The joining of several owners of cargo conveyed in the same ship in a libel in rem for damages done to the goods in the course of shipment, and the consolidation of libels filed se

The act or process of uniting two or more of them into one.

The union or merger into one corporate body of two or more corporations which had been separately created for similar or connected purposes. In England this is termed "amalgamation

In practice. An order of the court requiring the plaintiff to join in one suit several causes of action against the same defendant which may be so joined consistently with the rule

Funds formed by the consolidation (of which word it is an abbreviation) of different annuities, which had been severally formed into a capital. See "Consolidated Fund." CONSORTIO M

1. A companion. Consortsliip. Fellowship, companionship, consortium, q. v. S. A vessel that keeps company with another vessel. Consort-s Mp. A contract between owners of wrecking v

The companionship of the wicked makes me also wicked.

The term “Consortium” means the High-Performance Green Building Partnership Consortium created in response to section 17092(c)(1) of this title to represent the private sector in a

Society of one’s neighbors.

In maritime law. An agreement or stipulation between the owners of different vessels that they shall keep in company, mutually aid, instead of interfering with each other, in wreck

A conspiracy to accomplish what an individual is free to do may be a crime; and even more plainly a person may conspire for the commission of a crime by a third person. We will ass

in an indictment for conspiring to commit an offense—in which the conspiracy is the gist of the crime—it is not necessary to allege with technical precision all the elements essent

The Sherman Act denounces every conspiracy in restraint of trade including those that are to be carried on by acts constituting intrastate transactions.

it is not essential that such a conspiracy shall contemplate a financial loss or that one shall result. The statute is broad enough in its terms to include any conspiracy for the p

An unlawful sons to accomplish an means. Constat,;. It is clear, no doubt as to the person.

An ancient writ that lay against conspirators. Reg. Orig. 134; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 114.

Persons guilty of a conspiracy.

22, C. 4. 35 — that is, the 22d constitution Code, book 4, tit. 35. Sometimes more simply:—CW. 4.35. 22.

An ofilcer whose duty it is to keep the peace in the district which is assigned to bin). The most satisfactory derivation of the term and history of the origin of this office is th

A hiffh officer of state, established in England on the Norman Conquest, whose duties partook both of a military and civil character. He was at the same time commander in chief of

The warden or keeper of a castle; the castellan. St. Westminster I. e. 7 (3 Edw. I.); Spelman. The constable of Dover Castle was also warden of the Cinque Ports. There was besides

His office consisted in the care of the common peace of the realm in deeds of arms and matters of war. Lambard, Const. 4. He was to regulate all matters of chivalry, tournaments an

An officer who was formerly entitled to command all the king's armies, in the absence of the king, and to take cognizance of all crimes committed within four miles of the king's pe

An officer spoken of in the 51 Hen. III. stat. 5,

The jurisdiction of a constable.

The territorial Jurisdiction of a constable. 5 Nev. & M. 261. CONSTABULARIUS (Lat.) An officer of horse; an officer having charge of foot or horse; a naval commander; an officer ha

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

An officer of horse; an officer having charge of foot or horse; a naval commander; an officer having charge of military affairs generally. Spelman.

A police force of a county, state or country. CONSTAT (Lat. it appears). A certificate by an officer that certain matters therein stated appear of record. See 1 Hayw. (N. C.) 410.

those items of expense which are incurred by a business regardless of the scale of its operations — essentially the equivalent of what is commonly called overhead expenses

The term “constant rental amount” means, with respect to any section 467 rental agreement, the amount which, if paid as of the close of each lease period under the agreement, would

It is clear; a certificate that certain matters appear of record. See 2 N. C. 410.

In French Law. An affidavit made by a huissier setting forth the appearance, form, quality, color, etc., of any article upon which a suit depends. Arg. Fr. Merc. L. 554; Black, L.

To constitute or establish. "Constating instruments" is used to denote the charter, etc., of a corporation. See 37 N. J. Eq. 363. CONSTITUENT (Lat. constituo, to appoint). He who g

Documents fixing the charter of a corporation. See 37 N. J. Eq. 363.

Fr. The constitution or appointment of an attorney. Britt, c. 126.

An agent’s principal.

Minerals and standing timber are constituent elements of the land itself.

In old English law. To establish; to appoint; to ordain. Used in letters of attorney, and translated "constitute." Applied generally, also, to denote "appointment." Reg. Orig. 172;

A Latin term, signifying we constitute or appoint.

The officers properly appointed under the constitution for the government of the people. Those powers which the constitution of each people has established to govern them, to cause

In Civil Law. An establishment or settlement. Used of controversies settled by the parties without a trial. Calv. Lex. A sum paid according to agreement. Du Cange. An ordinance or

Lat. In old English law. An act, ordinance or statute; an establishment. Stat. Marlbr. c. 11. Stat. Westm. 1, pr. Stat, de Bigamis, pr. Bracton calls the statute of Merton, constit

Establishment of dower.

A constitution, from its nature, deals in generals, not in detail. Its framers cannot perceive minute distinctions which arise in the progress of the nation, and therefore confine

That which Is consonant to, and agrees with, the constitution.

They were not designed as limits upon the State governments in reference to their own citizens, but exclusively as restrictions upon Federal power.

It is a general and fundamental rule that if a statute be reasonably susceptible of two interpretations, one of which would render it unconstitutional and the other valid, it is th

if the section admits of two interpretations, each of which is within the constitutional authority of congress, that ought to be adopted, which best conforms to the terms and the o

If there is one doctrine more deeply rooted than any other in the process of constitutional adjudication, it is that we ought not to pass on questions of constitutionality—here the

The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning; where the intenti