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An old form of confiscate.

A permission or license from the British sovereign to a dean and chapter to elect a bishop, in time of vacation; or to an abbey or priory which is of royal foundation,

Where several material facts are stated conjunctively in the complaint, an answer which undertakes to deny their averments as a whole, conjunctively stated, is called a “conjunctive denial.” Doll v. Good, 38

Lat A person related by blood; a person descended from the same common stock.

A concurrence of wills. Express consent is that directly given, either lira voce or in writing. Implied consent is that manifested by signs, actions, or facts, or by inaction or silence, which

In the civil law. A counsellor, as distinguished from a pleader or advocate. An assistant judge. One who participates in the decisions. Du Cange.

In the civil law. A union of fortunes; a lawful Roman marriage. Also, the Joining of several persons as parties to one action. In old English law, the term signified company or

In public law, the organic and fundamental law of a nation or state, which may be written or unwritten, establishing the character and conception of its government, laying the basic principles to

The custom of England; the ancient common law. as distinguished from lex, the Roman or civil law

Knowledge of. and action with reference to. an existing or contemplated state of insolvency, with a design to make provision against its results or to defeat the operation of the insolvency laws.

In Spanish law. Con- tlnency or unity of the proceedings in a cause. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 6, c. 1.

Against, confronting, opposite to; on the other hand; on the contrary. The word is used in many Latin phrases, as appears by the following titles. In the books of reports, contra, appended

Consensual contracts are such as are founded upon and completed by the mere agreement of the contracting parties, without any external formality or symbolic act to fix the obligation. Real contracts are

An officer of the exchequer that writeth out summons twice every year, to the sheriffs, to levy the rents and debts of the pipe. Blount.

In old English law. The controlling or checking of another officer’s account; the keeping of a counter-roll.

Proper; just; suitable. Finlay v. Dickerson, 29 111. 20; Railway Co. v. Smith, 173 U. S. 684, 19 Sup. Ct. 565, 43 L. Ed. 858.

In pleading. Introduction or inducement.

Of the same order, rank, degree, or authority; concurrent; without any distinction of superiority and inferiority; as, courts of “co-ordinate jurisdiction.” See JURISDICTION. Co-ordinate and subordinate are terms often applied as a

One which Is placed between two or more others to join them together.

A species of protective tariff formerly in existence in England, imposing import- duties on various kinds of grain. The corn laws were abolished in 1846.