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In old English law. Fellow-barons; fellow-citizens. The citizens or freemen of the Cinque Ports being anciently called “barons;” the term “combarones” is used in this sense in a grant of Henry III.

In Roman law. An assembly, either (1) of the Roman curiae, in which case it was called the “comitia curiata vel calata;” or (2) of the Roman centuries, in which case it

He who holds a church living or preferment in commcndam.

The whole body of officers who make up the commissaries’ department of an army

In practice. To send a person to prison by virtue of a lawful authority, for any crime or contempt, or to an asylum, workhouse, reformatory, or the like, by authority of a

The right or liberty of fishing in another man’s water, in common with the owner or with other persons. 2 Bl. Comm. 34. A liberty or right of fishing in the water

In conveyancing. A species of common assurance, or mode of conveying lands by matter of record, formerly in frequent use In England. It was in the nature and form of an action

In English law. An obsolete writ which anciently lay for the lord, whose tenant, holding by knight’s service, died, and left his eldest son under age, against a stranger that entered the

Community property is property acquired by husband and wife, or either, during marriage, when not acquired as the separate property of cither. In re Lux’s Estate, 114 Cal. 73, 45 Pac. 1023;

An instrument used by mariners to point out the course of a ship at sea. It consists of a magnetized steel bar called the “needle,” attached to the under side of a

In practice. A plea in an action of debt on a bail bond that the defendant appeared at the day required.

An agreement embodying the terms of a composition between a debtor and his creditors

In Scotch law. An accounting party.

A count or earl. In the ancient French law, the comtc was an officer having jurisdiction over a particular district or territory, with functions partly military and partly judicial.

Accorded; conceded. This term, frequently used in the old reports, signifies that the court admitted or assented to a point or proposition made on the argument.

See PBESUMP- TION. CONCORD. In the old process of levying a fine of lands, the concord was an agreement between the parties (real or feigned) in which the deforciant (or he who

In the civil law. The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to give something of value. It differs from robbery, in this: That in robbery the thing is taken by

In the civil law. Co- ownerships or limited ownerships, such as emphyteusis, supcrficics, piynus, hypotheca, ususfructus, usus, and habitatio. These were more than mere jura in re aliend, being portion of the

In criminal law. A voluntary statement made by a person charged with the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, communicated to another person, wherein he acknowledges himself to be guilty of the

The grantor in a deed of confirmation