Category: C

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”

An agreement, upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing. 2 Bl. Comm. 442; 2 Kent, Comm. 449. Justice v. Lang, 42 N. Y. 496, 1 Am. Rep.

In old English law. A plea or answer. Blount A counter-position

A comptroller, which see.

In the civil law. To bring an action.

To pass or transmit the title to property from one to another; to transfer property or the title to property by deed or instrument under seal. To convey real estate is, by

A concurring choice; the election, by the members of a close corporation, of a person to fill a vacancy.

The corporal consummation of marriage. Copula, (in logic,) the link between subject aud predicate contained in the verb. Copnlatio verborum indicat accepta- tionem in eodem sensu. Coupling of words together shows that

In English law, a general term for any sort of grain; but in America it is properly applied only to maize. Sullins v. State, 53 Ala. 476; Kerrick v. Van Dusen, 32

In England. A tribunal of record, where a coroner holds his inquiries. Cox v. Royal Tribe. 42 Or. 305. 71 Pac. 73, 60 L. R. A. 020, 95 Am. St. Rep. 752.

Lat By the body and by the mind; by the physical act and by the mental intent. Dig. 41, 2, 3.

To strengthen; to add weight or credibility to a tiling by additional and confirming facts or evidence. Still v. State (Tex. Cr. R.) 50 S. W. 355; State v. Hicks, 0 -S.

In old English law. A feudal prerogative or custom for lords to lie and feast themselves at their tenants’ houses. Cowell

In old English law. The little seat or mansion belonging to a small farm.

This is required, in some jurisdictions, to be affixed to pleadings, as affording the court a means of judging whether they are interposed in good faith and upon legal grounds.

Coin not genuine, but resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for genuine coin, including genuine coin prepared or altered so as to resemble or pass for coin of a higher