Category: C

Interest upon interest, i. e., when the interest of a sum of money Is added to the principal, and then bears interest, which thus becomes a sort of secondary principal. Camp v.

Involuntary; forced ; coerced by legal process or by force of statute.

I grant. A word used in old Anglo-Saxon grants, and in statutes merchant.

In old records. A common council man ; a freeman called to a legislative hall or assembly. Cowell.

A species of loose or informal marriage which took place among the ancients, and which is yet In use in some countries. See CONCUBINATUS. The act or practice of cohabiting, in sexual

An action which lies upon a promise to do a thing, where such promise or stipulation is certain, (si certa sit stipulatio.) Inst. 3, 16, pr.; Id. 3. 15, pr. ; Dig.

In the civil law. A hirer

Intrusted with the confidence of another or with his secret affairs or purposes; intended to be held in confidence or kept secret.

The name given to a group of fifteen cases decided by the United States supreme court in 1808, on the validity and construction of the confiscation acts of congress. Reported in 7

Leave I to imparl. The privilege of an imparlance, (K- centia loquendi.) 3 Bl. Comm. 299.

A grammatical term for particles which serve for joining or connecting together. Thus, the conjunction “and” is called a “conjunctive,” and “or” a “disjunctive,” conjunction.

In feudal law. A purchaser. acquirer, or conqueror. 2 Bl. Comm. 242, 243

Co. Litt. 126. Consent (acquiescence) removes mistake. Consensus voluntas multorum ad quos res pertinet, simul juncta. Consent is the united will of several interested in one subject-matter. Davis, 4S; Branch, Princ.CONSENT

One who sends or makes a consignment A shipper of goods. Consilia multorum quseruntur in mag- nis. 4 Inst. 1. The counsels of maw are required in great things.

An abbreviation of the expression “consolidated annuities,” and used in modern times as a name of various funds united in one for the payment of the British national debt. Also, a name

In the civil law. An imperial ordinance or constitution, distinguished from Lex, Senatus-Consultum, and other kinds of law and having its effect from the sole will of the emperor. An establishment or

A custom; an established usage or practice. Co. Litt. 58. Tolls; duties; taxes. Id. 586.

The apprehension or expectation of approaching dissolution; not that general expectation which every mortal entertains, but the apprehension which arises from some presently existing sickness or physical condition or from some impending

In close proximity; in actual close contact Touching; bounded or traversed by. The term is not synonymous with “vicinal.” Plaster Co. v. Campbell, 89 Va. 396, 16 S. E 274; Bank v.

One recurring at repeated intervals, so as to be of repeated occurrence; not necessarily an injury that never ceases. Wood v. Sutclili’e, 8 Eng. Law & Eq. 217. As to continuous “Crime”