The Law Dictionary

Your Free Online Legal Dictionary • Featuring Black’s Law Dictionary, 2nd Ed.

Category: C

COMMONALTY

In English law. The great body of citizens; the mass of the people, excluding the nobility. In American law. The body of people composing a municipal corporation, excluding the corporate officers

COMMUNIA

In old English law. Common things, res communes. Such as running water, the air, the sea, and sea shores. Bract, fol. 75.

COMMUTATION

In criminal law. Change; substitution. The substitution of one punishment for another, after conviction of the party subject to it. The change of a punishment from a greater to a less; as

COMPASSING

Imagining or contriving, or plotting. In Englisli law, “compassing the king’s death” is treason. 4 HI. Comm. 70.

COMPETENCY

In the law of evidence. The presence of those characteristics, or the absence of those disabilities, which render a witness legally fit and qualified to give testimony in a court of justice.

COMPUTATION

The act of computing, numbering, reckoning, or estimat’ng. COMPUTUS 236 CONCESSION The account or estimation of time by rule of law, as distinguished from any arbitrary construction of the parties. Cowell.

CONCESSION

A grant; ordinarily applied to the grant of specific privileges by a government; French and Spanish grants in Louisiana. See Western M. & M. Co. v. Peytona Coal Co., 8 W. Va.

CONCURRENT

Having the same authority ; acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act; contributing to the same event; contemporaneous. As to concurrent “Covenants,” “Jurisdiction,” “Insurance,” “Lease,” “Lien,” and “Writs,” see those titles

CONDICTIO SINE CANSA

An action which lay in favor of a person who had given or promised a thing without consideration, (causa.) Dig. 12, 7; Cod. 4, 9.

CONFARREATIO

In Roman law. A sacrificial rite resorted to by marrying persons of high patrician or priestly degree, for the purpose of clothing the husband with the manus over his wife; the civil

CONFINEMENT

Confinement may be by either a moral or a physical restraint, by threats of violence with a present force, or by physical restraint of the person. U. S. v. Thompson, 1 Sumn.

CONFISCATION CASES

The name given to a group of fifteen cases decided by the United States supreme court in 1808, on the validity and construction of the confiscation acts of congress. Reported in 7

CONGE D’AECORDER

Leave to accord. A permission granted by the court in the old process of levying a fine, to the defendant to agree I with the plaintiff

CONJUNCTIM ET DIVISIM L LAT

In old English law. Jointly and severally. CONJUNCTIO. In the civil law. Conjunction ; connection of words in a sentence. See Dig. 50, 16 29, 142. Conjunctio mariti et femina: est de

CONQUESTOR

Conqueror. The title given to William of Normandy

CONSENSUAL CONTRACT

A term derived from the civil law, denoting a contract founded upon and completed by the mere consent of the contracting parties, without any external formality or symbolic act to fix the

CONSIGNMENT

The act or process of consigning goods ; the transportation of goods consigned; an article or collection of goods sent to a factor to be sold; goods or property sent, by the

Topic Archives:

Disclaimer

This site contains general legal information but does not constitute professional legal advice for your particular situation. The Law Dictionary is not a law firm, and this page does not create an attorney-client or legal adviser relationship. If you have specific questions, please consult a qualified attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.