Category: C

An action which lies upon a promise to do a thing, where such promise or stipulation is certain, (si certa sit stipulatio.) Inst. 3, 16, pr.; Id. 3. 15, pr. ; Dig.

In the civil law. A hirer

Intrusted with the confidence of another or with his secret affairs or purposes; intended to be held in confidence or kept secret.

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

Leave I to imparl. The privilege of an imparlance, (K- centia loquendi.) 3 Bl. Comm. 299.

A grammatical term for particles which serve for joining or connecting together. Thus, the conjunction “and” is called a “conjunctive,” and “or” a “disjunctive,” conjunction.

In feudal law. A purchaser. acquirer, or conqueror. 2 Bl. Comm. 242, 243

Co. Litt. 126. Consent (acquiescence) removes mistake. Consensus voluntas multorum ad quos res pertinet, simul juncta. Consent is the united will of several interested in one subject-matter. Davis, 4S; Branch, Princ.CONSENT

One who sends or makes a consignment A shipper of goods. Consilia multorum quseruntur in mag- nis. 4 Inst. 1. The counsels of maw are required in great things.

An abbreviation of the expression “consolidated annuities,” and used in modern times as a name of various funds united in one for the payment of the British national debt. Also, a name

In the civil law. An imperial ordinance or constitution, distinguished from Lex, Senatus-Consultum, and other kinds of law and having its effect from the sole will of the emperor. An establishment or

A custom; an established usage or practice. Co. Litt. 58. Tolls; duties; taxes. Id. 586.

The apprehension or expectation of approaching dissolution; not that general expectation which every mortal entertains, but the apprehension which arises from some presently existing sickness or physical condition or from some impending

In close proximity; in actual close contact Touching; bounded or traversed by. The term is not synonymous with “vicinal.” Plaster Co. v. Campbell, 89 Va. 396, 16 S. E 274; Bank v.

One recurring at repeated intervals, so as to be of repeated occurrence; not necessarily an injury that never ceases. Wood v. Sutclili’e, 8 Eng. Law & Eq. 217. As to continuous “Crime”

An agreement, upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing. 2 Bl. Comm. 442; 2 Kent, Comm. 449. Justice v. Lang, 42 N. Y. 496, 1 Am. Rep.

In old English law. A plea or answer. Blount A counter-position

A comptroller, which see.

In the civil law. To bring an action.

To pass or transmit the title to property from one to another; to transfer property or the title to property by deed or instrument under seal. To convey real estate is, by