Category: C

One who litigates with another.

One which makes no real or substantial change, but is introduced only as a subterfuge or means of evading the patent or copyright law.

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

In French law. A special or limited partnership, where the contract is between one or more persons who are general partners, and jointly and severally responsible, and one or more other persons

An officer in the consular service of the United States, of rank inferior to a consul. Also used as equivalent to “Commercial broker,” see infra

A warrant or authority or letters patent, issuing from the government, or one of its departments, or a court, empowering a person or persons named to do certain acts, or to exercise

In English law. A commission issued when defendant lives abroad to swear him to such answer. 15 & 16 Vict. c. 86,

In practice. The warrant or mittimus by which a court or magistrate directs an officer to take a person to prison. The act of sending a persou to prison by means of

The same as Common of piscary. See infra.

Sound practical judgment; that degree of intelligence and reason, as exercised upon the relations of persons and things and the ordinary affairs of life, which is possessed by the generality of mankind,

A lawyer learned in the common law. Common opinion is good authority in law. Co. Litt. 186a; Bank of Utica v. Mersereau. 3 Barb. Ch. (N. Y.) 528, 577, 49 Am. Dec.

In old English law. A common plea or civil action, such as an action of debt

A name given to proposed systems of life or social organization based upon the fundamental principle of the non-existence of private property and of a community of goods in a society. An

That doctrine in the law of negligence by which the negligence of the parties is compared, in the degrees of “slight,” “ordinary,” and “gross” negligence, and a recovery permitted, notwithstanding the contributory

See DAMAGES

In code practice. Whenever the defendant seeks affirmative relief against any party, relating to or depending upon the contract or transaction upon which the action is brought, or affecting the property to

A surreptitious printing of another book-seller’s copy of a work, to make gain thereby, which was contrary to common law, and is illegal. Wharton. .

Process to compel the attendance in court of a person wanted there as a witness or otherwise; including not only the ordinary subpoena, but also a warrant of arrest or attachment if

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