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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

;., Colour. our: to confess 1.

Conusance of pleas: an exclusive a privilege of trial granted certain cities and may be pleaded by " claim of conusance," of another court.

2. The acknowledg- 3.

A pleading in replevin justifying the bailiff of some third party; v. Avowry. A person levying a fine. Cognizee, conuwhom the fine was levied. acknowledge. Cognovit actionem (he has action), or cognovit: a written confession of action at law, signed by the defendant or his declaration, authorizing the plaintiff to enter named. If after plea, it contained an agreeplea, and was called a cognovit actioverificatione (the plea being abandoned), or a sergeant at law; a lawn cap formerly worn. side, by the side. Relationship by blood not limitation: a limitation which makes the depend, not alone on the life or blood of some' other event. Collateral warranty: person not having the title, and who could held it. A bringing together of goods into a cominto hotchpot. The conferring a benefice by a bishop advowson. corporate capacity. defuncti, I. v. Ad. conversation. That part of the declaration in that the words were spoken concerning the words were not in themselves actionby the explanatory inducement, a travcertain facts, and followed by the innuendo connected the words with these facts, and defamatory to the plaintiff. Apparent or prima facie right. To give colsufficiently the truth of the declaration for the To give express colour: to allege in the plea some fictitious fact which enables the defendant to set up his defence by confession and avoidance. It gives the plaintiff an apparent right, and so does away with the necessity of pleading by traverse. Colour of office: the false pretence of authority or of Bicial duty. Colore officii: under colour of office. Combat Trial by Battel.