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CONDEDIT

In ecclesiastical law. The name of a plea entered by a party to a libel filed in the ecclesiastical court, in which it is pleaded that the deceased made the wili which

CONDONATION

The conditional remission or forgiveness, by one of the married parties, of a matrimonial offense committed by the other, and which would constitute a cause of divorce; the condition being that the

CONFESSION OF DEFENSE

In English practice. Where defendant alleges a ground of defense arising since the commencement of the action, the plaintiff may deliver confession of such defense and sign judgment for his costs up

CONFISCABLE

Capable of being confiscated or suitable for confiscation; liable to forfeiture. Camp v. Lockwood, 1 Dall. (Pa.) 393, 1 L. Ed. 194

CONFUSION OF GOODS

The inseparable fl intermixture of property belonging to different ” owners; properly confined to the pouring together of fluids, but used in a wider sense to designate any indistinguishable compound of elements

CONJUGAL RIGHTS

Matrimouial rights; the right which husband and wife have to each other’s society, comfort, and affection.

CONOCIMIENTO

In Spanish law. A bill of lading. In the Mediterranean ports it is called “poliza de caryamiento.”

CONSEDO SP

A term used in conveyances under Mexican law, equivalent to the English word “grant.” Mulford v. Le Fra!: . 20 Cal. 103.

CONSOLIDATION

In the civil law. The union of the usufruct with the estate out of which it issues, in the same person; which happens when the usufructuary acquires the estate, or vice versa.

CONSTATE

To establish, constitute, or ordain. “Constating instruments” of a corporation are its charter, organic law, or the grant of powers to it. See examples of the use of the term. Green’s Brice,

CONSTUPRATE

To ravish, debauch, violate, rape. See Harper v. Delp, 3 Ind. 230; Koenig v. Nott, 2 Hilt. (N. Y.) 329

CONTAGIOUS DISEASE

One capable of being transmitted by mediate or immediate contact. See Grayson v. Lynch, 163 U. S. 468, 16 Sup. Ct. 1004, 41 L. Ed. 230; Stryker v. Crane, 33 Neb. 690,

CONTERMINOUS

Adjacent; adjoining ; having a common boundary; coterminous

CONTINUANCE

The adjournment or postponement of an action pending in a court, to a subsequent day of the same or another term. Com. v. Maloney, 145 Mass. 205, 13 N. E. 482; State

CONTRZESCRITURA

In Spanish law. A counter-writing; counter-letter. A docu- ? ment executed at the same time with an act J of sale or other instrument, and operating by way of defeasance or otherwise

CONTRIBUTE

To supply a share or proportional part of money or property towards the prosecution of a common enterprise or the discharge of a joint obligation. Park v. Missionary Soc., 02 Vt. 19,

CONUSANCE

In English law. Cognizance or jurisdiction. Conusance of pleas. Termes de la Ley.

CONVENTUALS

Religious men united in a convent or religious house. Cowell

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