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CONGEABLE L FR

Lawful; permissible; allowable. “Disseisin is properly where a man entereth into any lands or tenements where his entry is not congcable. and 1/ putteth out him that hath the freehold.” Litt.

CONJURATIO

In old English law. A swearing together; an oath administered to several together; a combination or confederacy under oath. Cowell. In old European law. A compact of the inhabitants of a commune,

CONSANGUINEUS FRATER

In civil and feudal law. A half-brother by the father’s side, as distinguished from frater uterinus, a brother by the mother’s side. Consanguineus est quasi eodem sanguine natus. Co. Litt. 157. A

CONSILIUM

A day appointed to hear the counsel of both parties. A case set down for argument. It is commonly used for the day appointed for the argument of a demurrer, or errors

CONSORTSHIP

In maritime law. An agreement or stipulation between the owners of different vessels that they shall keep in company, mutually aid, instead of interfering with each other, in wrecking and salvage, and

CONSTRAINT

This term is held to be exactly equivalent with “restraint.” Edmondson v. Harris, 2 Tenn. Ch. 427.

CONTINENS

In the Roman law. Continuing; holding together. Adjoining buildings were said to be continentia.

CERTAIN AND HAZARDOUS

Certain contracts are those in which the thing to be done is supposed to depend on the will of the party, or when, in the usual course of events, it must happen

CONTRAT

In French law. Contracts are of the following varieties: (1) Bilateral, or synallagiiiatiqne, where each party is bound to the other to do what is just and proper; or (2) unilateral, where

CONTROVER

In old English law. An Inventer or deviser of false news. 2 Inst. 227.

CONVENIT LAT

In civil and old English law. It is agreed; it was agreed.

CONVEYANCER

One whose business it is to draw deeds, bonds, mortgages, wills, writs, or other legal papers, or to examine titles to real estate. 14 St. at Large, 118. He who draws conveyances;

COPARCENARY

A species of estate, or tenancy, which exists where lands of inheritance descend from the ancestor to two or more persons. It arises in England either by common law or particular custom.

COPY

The transcript or double of an original writing; as the copy of a patent, charter, deed, etc. Exemplifications are copies verified by the great seal or by the seal of a court.

CORNAGE

A species of tenure in England, by which the tenant was bound to blow a horn for the sake of alarming the country on the approach of an enemy. It was a

CORPORAL IMBECILITY

Physical inability to perform completely the act of sexual intercourse ; not necessarily congenital, and not invariably a permanent and incurable impotence. GrifTeth v. Griffeth, 162 111. 308, 44 N. E. 820;

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