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Those authorized to divide profits with persons other than the stockholders.

The term “cooperative education” means a method of education for individuals who, through written cooperative arrangements between a school and employers, receive instruction, incl

The term “cooperative electric company” means a mutual or cooperative electric company described in section 501(c)(12) or section 1381(a)(2)(C), or a not-for-profit electric utilit

The term “Cooperative Extension” means the extension services established at the land-grant colleges and universities under the Smith-Lever Act of May 8, 1914 [ 7 U.S.C. 341 et seq

The term “cooperative extension services” means the organizations established at the land-grant colleges and universities under the Smith-Lever Act of May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 372–374

The term “cooperative grant” means a grant that assists groups of nonprofit accredited colleges and universities to work together to conduct a science improvement program.

The term “cooperative housing corporation” has the meaning given to such term by section 216(b)(1). / The term “cooperative housing corporation” means a corporation— (A) having one

The term “Cooperative Management and Protection Area” means the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area designated by part A.

The term “cooperative project” means a jointly managed arrangement, described in a written cooperative agreement entered into by the participants, that— (A) is undertaken by the pa

“cooperative property” means the real estate and personal property subject to cooperative ownership and all other property owned by the cooperative association;

the term “cooperative research and development” means research or research and development conducted jointly by a small business concern and a research institution in which not les

The term “cooperative research and development agreement” has the meaning given that term by section 12(d) of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 ( 15 U.S.C. 371

The term “cooperative research and development project” means a project involving joint participation by the United States and one or more countries and organizations referred to i

As employed in this chapter, the term “cooperative”, or “cooperatives”, means any form of nonprofit-making organization or organizations of citizens supplying, or which may be crea

The term "Cooperative Threat Reduction funds" means funds appropriated pursuant to an authorization of appropriations for the Program, or otherwise made available to the

“cooperative unit” means a part of the cooperative property which is subject to exclusive use and possession by a cooperative unit owner. A unit may be improvements, land, or land

“cooperative unit owner” means the person having a membership or share interest in the cooperative association and holding a lease, or other muniment of title or possession, of a c

The term “cooperator” means any State or local government, public or private agency, organization, institution, corporation, individual, or other entity. / The term “cooperator” me

In old English law. The head or branches of a tree cut down; though coopertio arborum is rather the bark of timber trees felled, and the chumps and broken wood. Cowell.

Lat. A covering. Cowell. See Coopertio.

or CO-OPERTURA (Law Lat. from co-operire, to cover). In forest law. A covert; a thicket (dumetum) or shelter for wild beasts in a forest. Cart. de Foresta, c. 12; Reg. Orig. 258; S

In forest law. A thicket or covert of wood.

Covert; covered.

Covered.

A concurring choice; the election, by the members of a close corporation, of a person to fill a vacancy.

Of the same order, rank, degree or authority; concurrent; without any distinction of superiority and inferiority; as, courts of "co-ordinate jurisdiction." See Jurisdiction. Co-ord

the term “coordinated program” means the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program established by section 5311(a) of this title;

In this section, the term “Coordinated Universal Time” means the time scale maintained through the General Conference of Weights and Measures and interpreted or modified for the Un

That which is possessed by courts of equal rank, degree, or authority, equally competent to deal with the matter in question, whether belonging to the same or different systems; co

The term “Coordinating Committee” means the National Rural Development Coordinating Committee established by subsection (c).

The term “coordinating group” means the interagency aquaculture coordinating group established by section 2805 of this title .

The term “Coordination Area” means a wildlife management area that is made available to a State— (A) by cooperative agreement between the United States Fish and Wildlife Service an

The term “Coordination Office” means the National Quantum Coordination Office established under section 8812(a) of this title .

The term “Ashanti Alert Coordinator of the Department of Justice” or “Coordinator” means the employee designated by the Attorney General to act as the national coordinator of the A

ESTATES IN. Estates of which two or more persons form one heir. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 414. The title to such an estate is always by descent. The shares of the tenants need not be equ

Estates inherited by two or more 3ointly.

Persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as an entire estate. 2 Bl. Comm. 187. In the old English and the American sense, the term includes

Colpare. L. Lat. [L. Fr. copper.] To fell, cut, or chop, as wood. Spelman.

In old English law. A coparcener. Co. Entr. 377, 711.

One who is a partner with one or more other persons; a member of a partnership {q. v.)

A partnership (q. v.)

the fact that real property is held in the joint names of several owners, or in the name of one for the benefit of all, is no evidence of copartnership between them with respect to

In Scotch law. The contract of copartnership; a contract by which the several partners agree concerning the communication (sharing) of loss or gain, arising from the subject of the

or COPPE (Saxon). A hill. Co. Litt. 4b. The top or summit of a thing, as of a house. Cowell. A tribute paid out of lead mines in England. Blount.

or COPESMAN. A chapman (q. V.)

A merchant; a partner In merchandise. COPIA (Lat.) In civU and old Etaglish law. Opportunity or means of access.

A copy; opportunity.

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

Lat. [L. Fr. copie.] A copy. Copia libelli; the copy of a libel. Reg. Orig. 58. Breve de copia libelli deliberanda; a writ to deliver the copy of a libel. Id. ibid. Co. Litt. 57 b.

The name of a writ that lay where a man, could not get a copy of a libel at the hands of a spiritual judge, to have the same delivered to him. Reg. Orig. 51.

The name of a writ that lay where a man could not get a copy of a libel at the hands of a spiritual judge, to have the same delivered to him, leg. Orig. 51.

(Eccles.) A writ commanding the defendant to furnish the ‘plaintiff with a copy of the complaint.

In Scotch practice. A true copy; words written at the top of copies of instruments. 3 How. St. Tr. 427, 430, 432.

Fr. Copy. Litt, sect. 13. 76. See Copy. Co#Blatto TWhrnrmm ia4leat acee#taci«- ■•m %m —^m Mua. Coupling of words together shows that they are to be understood in the same sense. Ba

“Copies” are material objects, other than phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, o

“copilot” means an employee whose duties include assisting or relieving the pilot in manipulating an aircraft and who is qualified to serve as, and has in effect an airman certific

In English law. A crop or cock of grass, hay, or corn, divided into titheable portions, that it may be more fairly and justly tithed. Wharton.

See Mancipatio.

the same thing at New York as at Boston.

or COPSE. A small wood, consisting of underwood, which may be cut at twelve or fifteen years' growth for fuel.

or COPSE. A small wood, consisting of underwood, which may be cut at twelve or fifteen years’ growth for fuel,

A thicket.

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

In medical jurisprudence. A disposition or habit of using obscene language, developing unexpectedly in the particular individual or contrary to his previous history and habits, rec

Sexual intercourse; the consummation of marriage. COPULATIO VERBORUM INDICAT ACceptatlonem in eodem sensu. Coupling words together shows that they ought to be understood in the sam

Coupling of words indicates their use in the same sense. See 11 Allen (Mass.), 470.

A condition depending upon the happening of each of several events.

One which Is placed between two or more others to join them together.

What is meant by a copy? We have already referred to the common understanding of it as a reproduction or duplication of a thing. A definition was given by Bailey, J., in West v. Fr

A clergyman who assists rectors in preach- Assistants appointed to tbe rectors of churches. They are chosen by the vestry or chief Inhabitants. Within the meaning of the term a rea

A tenure by copy of courtroll; any species of holding by particular custom of the manor; the estate so held.

Commissioners appointed to carry into effect various acts of parliament, having for their principal objects the compulsory commutation of manorial burdens and restrictions, (fines,

A tenant by copyhold tenure (by copy of court roll). 2 Bl. Comm. 95.

A tenant by copyhold tenure, (by copy of court-roll.) 2 Bl. Comm. 95.

The copyright is an exclusive right to the multiplication of the copies, for the benefit of the author or his assigns, disconnected from the plate, or any other physical existence.

The dichotomy of protection for the aesthetic is not beauty and utility but art for the copyright and the invention of original and ornamental design for design patents

A term implying that the protection applicable to copyrights has been secured. See 16 Colo. 388, 25 Am. St. Rep. 279, 26 Pac. 556.

Absent copying there can be no infringement of copyright

while no action can be maintained before copies are actually deposited, mere delay will not destroy the right to sue. Such forfeitures are never to be inferred from doubtful langua

Definition.—As used in this section, the term “copyright management information” means any of the following information conveyed in connection with copies or phonorecords of a work

Every reproduction of a copyrighted work must bear the statutory notice. The thing protected and the only thing was the painting, the whole of which was reproduced in a single squa

the terms “audiovisual work”, “computer program”, “copies”, “copyright owner”, “digital transmission”, “financial gain”, “motion picture”, “motion picture exhibition facility”, “pe

As used in this section the word “copyrights” includes copyrights, claims of copyrights, rights to copyrights, and rights to copyright renewals. / As used in this section the word

And upon this question of the annexation of the copyright to the plate it is to be observed, first, that there is no necessary connection between them. They are distinct subjects o

A tenure by the service of blowing a horn to warn of a Scotch invasion.

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

Measures of com. An unusual and extraordinary tribute, arising only on special occasions. They are thus distinguished from services. Mentioned in connection with hidage and carvage

Measures of corn. An unusual and extraordinary tribute, arising only on special occasions. They are thus distinguished from services. Mentioned in connection with hidage and carvag

The term "coral" means species of the phylum Cnidaria, including— (A) all species of the orders Antipatharia (black corals), Scleractinia (stony corals), Alcyonacea (soft

The term "coral products" means any living or dead specimens, parts, or derivatives, or any product containing specimens, parts, or derivatives, of any species of coral.

The term "coral reef" means calcium carbonate structures in the form of a reef or shoal, composed in whole or in part by living coral, skeletal remains of coral, crustose

The term "coral reef ecosystem" means— (A) corals and other geographically and ecologically associated marine communities of other reef organisms (including reef plants a

The term "coral reef ecosystem services" means the attributes and benefits provided by coral reef ecosystems including— (A) protection of coastal beaches, structures, and

Lat Before; in presence of. Applied to persons only. Townsh. PL 22. —Coram domino rege. Before our lord the king. Coram domino rege ubicumque tunc fuerit Anglue, before our lord th

Before our lord the king. Coram domino rege ubicumque tunc fuerit Anglue, before our lord the king wherever he shall then, be in England.

Before our lord the king wherever he may then be in England.

In the presence of the king himself.

In summary proceedings, where a Court exercises an extraordinary power under a special statute prescribing its course, we think that course ought to be exactly observed, and those

Before me or my justices.

A writ of error on a judgment in the king's bench is called a coram nobis, before us. So called because the record and proceedings were stated in the writ to remain "before us." 1