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COMPULSION

Constraint; objective necessity. Forcible Inducement to the commission of an act. Navigation Co. v. Brown, 100 Pa. 346; U. S. v. Kimball (C. C.) 117 Fed. 163; Gates v. Hester, 81 Ala.

CONCEALMENT

The improper suppression or disguising of a fact, circumstance, or qualification which rests within the knowledge of one only of the parties to a contract, but which ought in fairness and good

CONCILIUM ORDINARIUM

In Anglo-Norman times. An executive and residuary judicial committee of the Aula Regis, (q. v.)

CONDESCENDENCE

In the Scotch law. A part of the proceedings in a cause, setting forth the facts of the case on the part of the pursuer or plaintiff.

CONDUCTI ACTIO

In the civil law. An action which the hirer (conductor) of a thing might have against the letter, (locator.) Inst. 3, 25, pr. 2.

CONFISCATION

The act of confiscating ; or of condemning and adjudging to the public treasury

CONGE FR

In the French law. Per- y mission, leave, license; a passport or clear- n ance to a vessel; a permission to arm, equip, or navigate a vessel.

CONJUNCTA

In the civil law. Things joined together or united; as distinguished from disjuncta, things disjoined or separated. Dig. 50, 16, 53.

CONQUEST

In feudal law. Conquest; acquisition by purchase; any method of acquiring the ownership of an estate other than by descent. Also an estate acquired otherwise than by inheritance.

CONSEILS DE PRUDHOMMES

In French law. A species of trade tribunals, charged with settling differences between masters and workmen. They endeavor, in the first instance, to conciliate the parties. In default, they adjudicate upon the

CONSIGNEE

In mercantile law. One to whom a consignment is made. The person to whom goods are shipped for sale. Lyon v. Alvord, IS Conn. 80; Gillespie v. Winberg, 4 Daly (N. Y.)

CONSOLIDATION OF CORPORATIONS

The union or merger into one corporate body of two or more corporations which had been separately created for similar or connected purposes. In England this is termed “amalgamation.” When the rights,

CONSUETUDINES

In old English law. Customs. Thus, consuetudines et assisa forestce, the customs and assise of the forest.

CONTEMNER

One who has committed contempt of court. Wyatt v. People, 17 Colo. 252, 28 Pac. 961

CONTESTATIO LITIS

In Roman law. Contestation of suit; the framing an issue; joinder in issue. The formal act of both the parties with which the proceedings in jure were closed when they led to

CONTINUOUS

Uninterrupted; unbroken; not intermittent or occasional; so persistently repeated at short intervals as to constitute virtually an unbroken series. Black v. Canal Co., 22 N. J. Eq. 402; Ilofer’s Appeal, 110 Pa.

CONTRABAND OF WAR

Certain classes of merchandise, such as arms and ammunition, which, by the rules of international law, cannot lawfully be furnished or carried by a neutral nation to either of two belligerents; if

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