Category: C

A term which is synonymous with “factor.” It means one who receives goods, chattels, or merchandise for sale, exchange, or other disposition, and who is to receive a compensation for his services,

An instrument in writing on paper or parchment, which charges a person, already in prison, in execution at the suit of the person who arrested him. 2 Chit. Arclib. Pr. (12th Ed.)

A court in the city of I^ondon, at which all the citizens, or such as are free of the city, have a right to attend

The public or common weal or welfare. This cannot be regarded as a technical term of public law, though often used in political science. It generally designates, when so employed, a republican

In ordinary years; on the annual average

See JUSTICE.

In Scotch law. To appear

In Scotch practice. The contest among creditors claiming on their respective diligences, or creditors claiming on their securities. Bell

To compromise; to effect a composition with a creditor; to obtain discharge from a debt by the payment of a smaller sum. Bank v. Malheur County, 30 Or. 420, 45 Pac. 781,

In ecclesiastical procedure, a compulsory Is a kind of writ to compel the attendance of a witness, to undergo examination. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1258.

In French law. To grant. See CONCESSION

An ancient English tribunal, existing during the reigns of Edward I. and Edward II., to which was referred cases of extraordinary difficulty. Co. Litt. 304.

Lying together, as cattle

In Roman law. A general term for actions of a personal nature, founded upon an obligation to give or do a certain and defined thing or service. It is distinguished from vindicatio

In the civil law. A hiring. Used generally in connection with the term locatio, a letting. Locatio ct conductio, (sometimes united as a compound word, “lo? catio-conductio,”) a letting and hiring. Inst.

Trust; reliance; ground of trust In the construction of wills, this word is considered peculiarly appropriate to create a trust. “It is as applicable to the subject of a trust, as nearly

Certain acts of congress, enacted during the progress of the civil war (1801 and 1802) in the exercise of the war powers of the government and meant to strengthen its hands and

Leave to accord. A permission granted by the court in the old process of levying a fine, to the defendant to agree I with the plaintiff

In old English law. Jointly and severally. CONJUNCTIO. In the civil law. Conjunction ; connection of words in a sentence. See Dig. 50, 16 29, 142. Conjunctio mariti et femina: est de

Conqueror. The title given to William of Normandy