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A house of entertainment where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and sometimes with lodging. Century Diet. A coffee-house is not an inn. Thompson v. Lacy, 3 Barn. & Aid.

A joint heiress. A woman who has an equal share of an inheritance with another woman.

In the civil law. The collation of goods is the supposed or real return to the mass of the succession which an heir makes of property which he received in advance of

tum. One which abused its right, or assembled for any other purpose than that expressed in its charter.

The appearance or semblance, without the substance, of legal right. McCain v. Des Moines, 174 U. S. 108, 19 Sup. Ct. (H4, 43 L. Ed. 936

Lat. Immediately; hand-to- hand ; in personal contact.

In practice. An authoritative order of a judge or magisterial officer. In criminal law. The act or offense of one who commands another to transgress the law, or do anything contrary to

The term “commercial paper” means bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank-checks, and other negotiable instniments for the payment of money, enloswhich, by their form and on their face, purport to be such

A person to whom a commission is directed by the government or I a court State v. Banking Co., 14 N. J. Law, ‘ 437; In re Canter, 40 Misc. Rep. 126,

In Spanish law. A contract by which one person lends gratuitously to another some object not consumable, to be restored to him in kind at a given period; the same contract as

The English court of common pleas was formerly so called. Its original title appears to have been simply “The Bench,” but it was designated “Common Bench” to distinguish it from the “King’s

A contribution which was gathered at marriages, and when young priests said or sung the first masses. Prohibited by 2G Hen. VIII. c. 6. Cowell.

Common opinion ; general professional opinion. According to Lord Coke, (who places it on the footing of observance or usage.) common opinion is good authority in law. Co. Litt. 180a. COMMUNIS PARIES

A society or association of persons, in considerable number, interested in a common object, and uniting themselves for the prosecution of some’commercial or industrial undertaking, or other legitimate business. Mills v. State.

In Spanish law. Compensation; set-off. The extinction of a debt by another debt of equal dignity

In civil practice. In those states having a Code of Civil Procedure, the complaint is the first or initiatory pleading on the part of the plaintiff in a civil action. It corresponds

In Spanish law. Purchase and sale. COMPRINT 235 COMPUTATION

One not made voluntarily, but exacted by duress, threats, the enforcement of legal process, or unconscionably taking advantage of another. Shaw v. Woodcock, 7 Barn. & C. 73; Beckwith v. Frisbie. 32

Relating to ; pertaining to; affecting; involving; being engaged in or taking part in. U. S. v. Fulkerson (D. C.) 74 Fed. 631; May v. Brown, 3 Barn. & C. 137; Ensworth

The end; the termination ; the act of finishing or bringing to a close. The conclusion of a declaration or complaint is all that part which follows the statement of the plaintiff’s