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since his jurisdiction was strictly special and limited, it is essential to the validity of his judgment, and of the proceedings under it, that the record should show that he acted

In presence of a person not a judge. When a suit is brouglit and determined in a court which hag no jurisdiction in the matter, then it is said to be coram non judice, and the judg

Before the peers or freeholders. The attestation of deeds, like all other solemn transactions, was originally done only coram pa Hbiis. 2 Bl. Comm. 307.

Before his peers in the neighborhood.

Before the suitors. Cro. Jac. 582.

A writ of error on judgments of other courts than the king's bench. 2 Tidd, Prac. 1056, 1137. So called because the record was stated to remain "before you," i. e., before the just

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

Fr. Passing; running; current. Kelham,

A measure of wood, containing 128 cubic l Vet. See Kennedy v. R. Co., 67 Barb. (N. Y.) 169.

The term “cordage” includes yarns, twines (including binding twine described in paragraph 1622 1 of section 1201 of title 19), cords, cordage, rope and cable, tarred or untarred, w

The term “core academic subjects” means English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, and geography.

Core capacity improvement project.—The term "core capacity improvement project" means a substantial corridor-based capital investment in an existing fixed guideway system

Unless the Comptroller prescribes a more stringent definition, the term “core capital” means core capital as defined by the Comptroller of the Currency for national banks, less any

The term “core data elements” means data elements relating to financial management, administration, or management that— (A) are not program-specific in nature or program-specific o

The term “core labor standards” means— (A) freedom of association; (B) the effective recognition of the right to bargain collectively; (C) the elimination of all forms of compulsor

The term “core logistics capabilities” means the core logistics capabilities identified under section 2464(a) of this title. / The term “core logistics capabilities” means the core

The term “core network” means the core network described in section 1422(b)(1) of this title .

The terms “core program”, “individual with a barrier to employment”, “local area”, “local board”, “one-stop operator”, “outlying area”, “State”, “State board”, and “supportive serv

The term “core program provision” means— (A) subparts 2 and 3 of part B of subchapter I (relating to youth workforce investment activities and adult and dislocated worker employmen

The term "core programs" means a program authorized under a core program provision.

For purposes of this subchapter, the term “core qualifying activities” means activities in operating qualifying vessels in United States foreign trade.

the term “core requirements”— (A) means the requirements described in paragraphs (11), (12), (13), and (15) of section 11133(a) of this title ; and (B) does not include the data co

The term “core services” means— (A) educational and support services provided to assist parents in acquiring parenting skills, learning about child development, and responding appr

In this section, the term “core set” means a group of valid, reliable, and evidence-based quality measures that, taken together— (A) provide information regarding the quality of he

One accused in divorce of adultery with the defendant.

In England, where a husband brings a suit against his wife charging her vdth adultery, the alleged adulterer must, as a rule, be made a party to the petition as a co-respondent. If

Any person called upon to answer a petition or other proceeding, but now chiefly applied to a person charged with adultery with the husband or wife, in a suit tor divorce, and made

A box coal carrier used in mining coal.

Forfeiture of skin; punishment by flogging.

To forfeit one's skin, applied to a person condemned to be whipped; anciently the punishment of a servant. Corium perdere, the same. Corium redimere, to compound for a whipping. Wh

The term “corn” means field corn.

A species of tenure in England, by which the tenant was bound to blow a horn for the sake of alarming the country on the approach of an enemy. Bac. Abr. "Tenure" (N).

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

A term used in the stock market, meaning cases where a purchaser succeeds in buying for future delivery more property of a given kind than is possible for the seller to deliver bef

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

A commissioned ofiacer in a regiment of calvary.

Laws regulating the trade in breadstuffs. The object of corn laws is to secure a regular and steady supply of the great staples of food; and for this object the means adopted in di

Arent in wheat or malt paid on college leases by direction of St. 18 Eliz. c.6. 2 Bl. Comm, 609.

Rents reserved in corn, — that is, in wheat or malt. Proportions of rents on college leases (being one-third), directed by St. 18 Eliz. c. 6, to be reserved in wheat or malt. 3 Ste

An abbreviation of (7om«hia, Cornwall, in old English pleadings and records. Towns, PL 147. Cowell, Appendix.

The name of a writ to exact a corody of an abbey or religious house.

Corody.

An allowance of meat, drink, money, clothing, lodging, and such like necessaries for sustenance. 1 Bl. Comm. 282; 1 Chit. Prac. 225. An allowance from an abbey or house of religion

In logic. A collateral or secondary consequence, deduction or inference.

A crown.

In old English law. The clergy who abuse their character were so called. Blount.

In old records. To give the tonsure, which was done on the crown, or in the form of a crown; to make a man a priest. Cowell.

To make one's son a priest. Homo coronatus was one who had received the first tonsure, as preparatory to superior orders, and the tonsure was in form of a corona, or crown of thorn

It "is but a royal ornament and solemnization of the royal descent, but no part of the title." By the laws of England there can be no interregnum: 7 <••. Rep. 10 b.

The oath administered to a sovereign in England before coronation. Whart Law Die. its form was somewhat changed at the coronation of Edward VII. C0R0NAT0R (Lat). A coroner. Spel. C

Coroner.

The name of a writ issued to the sheriff, commanding him to proceed to the election of a coroner.

Ini English law. The name of a writ for the removal of a coroner, for a cause which is to be therein assigned, as that he is engaged in other business, or incapacitated by years or

See I>e coronatore exonerando.

The term &quot;coronavirus&quot; means SARS–CoV–2 or another coronavirus with pandemic potential.

An officer whose principal duty it is to hold an inquisition, with the assistance of a jury, over the body of any person who may have come to a violent death, or who has died in pr

In England. A tribunal of reconi, where a coroner holds his inquiries. Cox v. Royal Tribe, 42 Or. 365, 71 Pac. 73, 60 L. R. A. 620, 95 Am. St. Rep. 752.

See CORONER.

The name of a wril issued to the sheriff, commanding him to proceed to the election of a coroner.

In Enslish law. The name of a writ for the removal of a coroner, for a cause which is to be therein assigned, as that he is engaged in other business, or incapacitated by years or

In England. A tribunal of record, where a coroner holds his inquiries.

Pertaining to the body.

A corporal oath.

In old English law. A corporal oath. CORPORALIS INJURIA NON RECIPIT aestimationem de futuro. A personal injury does not receive satisfaction from a future course of proceeding. Bac

Physical inability to perform completely the act of sexuai intercourse; not necessarily congenital, and not invariably a permanent and incurable impotence. Griffeth v. Griffeth 162

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

Bodily injury does not look to future proceedings for compensation.

See Corporal.

Swearing on the Bible.

Physical punishment as distinguished from pecuniary punishment or a fine; any kind of punishment of or inflicted on the body, such as whipping or the pillory ; the term may or may

Actual, bodily contact with the hand. It was once held that before a seller of personal property could be said to have stopped it in transitu, so as to regain the possession of it,

Belonging to a corporation; as a corporate name. Incorporated; as a corporate body. —Corporate authorities. The title given in statutes of several states to the aggregate body of o

For purposes of this section, the term “corporate acquisition indebtedness” means any obligation evidenced by a bond, debenture, note, or certificate or other evidence of indebtedn

The title given in statutes of several states to the aggregate body of officers of a municipal corporation, or to certain of those officers (excluding the others) who are vested wi

Corporate board.—The term “Corporate Board” means the Board of Directors of the Corporation described in section 5903 of this title.

This term, or its equivalent "body corporate," is applied to private corporations aggregate; not including municipal corporations. Cedar County v. Johnson, 50 Mo. 225 ; East Oaklan

The term “corporate bond yield curve” means, with respect to any month, a yield curve which is prescribed by the Secretary for such month and which reflects the average, for the 24

Such a charter, when accepted by the corporators, is undoubtedly a contract that the powers, privileges, and franchises granted shall not be restrained, controlled, or destroyed wi

A private party cannot take advantage of the forfeiture. That is a question for the sovereign power, which may waive it, or enforce it, at its pleasure.

where a corporation is created by the laws of a State, the legal presumption is, that its members are citizens of the State in which alone the corporate body has a legal existence;

The old rule was, that a corporation can make no contract which shall bind it except under its seal. That doctrine has long since been overruled, and it is now fully cstablished, t

a corporation which has been dissolved is as if it did not exist, and the result of the dissolution cannot be distinguished from the death of natural person in its effect

For purposes of this subsection, the term “corporate distributee” means only the corporation which meets the stock ownership requirements specified in section 332(b).

Southern Pacific Company v. Lowe...and Gulf Oil Corp. v. Lewellyn...cannot be regarded as laying down any general rule authorizing disregard of corporate entity in respect of taxat

in matters relating to the revenue, the corporate form may be disregarded where it is a sham or unreal. In such situations the form is a bald and mischievous fiction.

the franchise, the privilege of doing business in corporate form, which is a legitimate subject of taxation, does not cease to be such because it is exercised in the acquisition an

the right or privilege given by the state to two or more persons of being a corporation, that is, of doing business in a corporate capacity, and not the privilege or franchise whic

Corporate franchises are legal estates vested in the corporation itself as soon as it is in esse. They are not mere naked powers granted to the corporation, but powers coupled with

On the one hand, the plaintiff cannot recover without departing from the fundamental conception embodied in the law that created it,—the conception that a corporation remains uncha

For acts done by the agents of a corporation, either in contractu or in delicto, in the course of its business, and of their employment, the corporation is responsible, as an indiv

When a corporation is erected, a name is always given to it, or, supposing none to be actually given, will attach to it by implication, and by that name alone it must sue and be su

Where the appropriation of the corporate name is complete, the rule of the statute, by its own terms, is absolute, and the proposed mark must be denied registration, without more;

the power thus cautiously granted, is deposited with the corporation itself, without an indication that it is assignable. It is to be exercised, like other corporate powers, by the

There is a difference between those rights on which the validity of the transactions of the corporation depends, which must adhere to those transactions every where, and those pecu

In reference to municipal corporations, and especially to their powers of taxation, a "corporate purpose" is one which shall promote the general prosperity and the welfare of the m

A corporation cannot change its residence or its citizenship. It can have its legal home only at the place where it is located by or under the authority of its charter; but it may

the acts of such body or board, evidenced by a written vote, are as completely binding upon the corporation, and as complete authority to their agents, as the most solemn acts done

any corporation, joint-stock company, partnership, association, business trust, organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not, or a receiver or receivers, trustee or trus

In English law. The statute 13 Car. II. St. 2, c. 1; by which it was provided that no person should thereafter be elected to office in any corporate town that should not, within on

A corporation aggregate retains its identity through all the changes that may take place in its individual membership.