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One who has committed contempt of court. Wyatt v. People, 17 Colo. 252, 28 Pac. 961

In Roman law. Contestation of suit; the framing an issue; joinder in issue. The formal act of both the parties with which the proceedings in jure were closed when they led to

Uninterrupted; unbroken; not intermittent or occasional; so persistently repeated at short intervals as to constitute virtually an unbroken series. Black v. Canal Co., 22 N. J. Eq. 402; Ilofer’s Appeal, 110 Pa.

Certain classes of merchandise, such as arms and ammunition, which, by the rules of international law, cannot lawfully be furnished or carried by a neutral nation to either of two belligerents; if

In old English law. Counter-obligation. Literally, counter-binding. Est enirn obligatio quasi contraligatio. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 56,

A person liable to contribute to the assets of a company which Is being wound up, as being a member or (in some cases) a past member thereof. Mozley & Whitley.

See COQNIZOB.

Manner of living; habits of life; conduct; as in the phrase “chaste life and conversation.” Bradshaw v. People, 153 111. 150, 38 N. E. 652. “Criminal conversation” means seduction of another man’s

In forest law. A thicket, or covert of wood.

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

A measure of wood, containing 128 cubic feet Kennedy v. Railroad Co., 67 Barb. (N. Y.) 177.

In 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

Certain courts in Virginia described as follows: “For each city of the state, there shall be a court called a ‘corporation court,’ to be held by a judge, with like qualifications and

In the civil and Scotch law. Joint creditors ; creditors in solido. I’oth. Obi. pt. 2, c. 4, art. 3,

In old English law. Kindred ; cousinship. Also a writ that lay for the heir where the tresail, i. e., the father of the besail, or great-grandfather, was seised of lands in

A fashionable association, or a knot of persons forming a particular circle. The origin of the term was purely commercial, signifying an association, in which each member furnished his part, and bore

A court instituted by Henry VIII. in 1537, to administer justice in Yorkshire and the four other northern counties. Under the presidency of Stratford, the court showed great rigor, bordering, it is

A security given to one who has entered into a bond or become surety for another; a countervailing bond of indemnity.

The name given to the principal subdivisions of the kingdom of England and of most of the states of the American Union, denoting a distinct portion of territory organized by itself for

The course of a river is a line parallel with its banks; the term is not synonymous with the “current” of the river. Attorney General v. Railroad Co., 9 N. J. Eq.