Category: C

In public law, the organic and fundamental law of a nation or state, which may be written or unwritten, establishing the character and conception of its government, laying the basic principles to

The custom of England; the ancient common law. as distinguished from lex, the Roman or civil law

Knowledge of. and action with reference to. an existing or contemplated state of insolvency, with a design to make provision against its results or to defeat the operation of the insolvency laws.

In Spanish law. Con- tlnency or unity of the proceedings in a cause. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 6, c. 1.

Against, confronting, opposite to; on the other hand; on the contrary. The word is used in many Latin phrases, as appears by the following titles. In the books of reports, contra, appended

Consensual contracts are such as are founded upon and completed by the mere agreement of the contracting parties, without any external formality or symbolic act to fix the obligation. Real contracts are

An officer of the exchequer that writeth out summons twice every year, to the sheriffs, to levy the rents and debts of the pipe. Blount.

In old English law. The controlling or checking of another officer’s account; the keeping of a counter-roll.

Proper; just; suitable. Finlay v. Dickerson, 29 111. 20; Railway Co. v. Smith, 173 U. S. 684, 19 Sup. Ct. 565, 43 L. Ed. 858.

In pleading. Introduction or inducement.

Of the same order, rank, degree, or authority; concurrent; without any distinction of superiority and inferiority; as, courts of “co-ordinate jurisdiction.” See JURISDICTION. Co-ordinate and subordinate are terms often applied as a

One which Is placed between two or more others to join them together.

A species of protective tariff formerly in existence in England, imposing import- duties on various kinds of grain. The corn laws were abolished in 1846.

Relating to the body; bodily. Should be distinguished from corporeal, (

A term descriptive of such things as have an objective, material existence; perceptible by the senses of sight and touch ; possessing a real body. Opposed to incorporeal and spiritual. Civ. Code

Corruption of the best is worst

A term used by Europeans In India to denote a road-measure of about two miles, but differing in different parts. Wharton.

The seat of a cottage with the land belonging to it. Spelman.

To declare; to recite; to state a case; to narrate the facts constituting a plaintiff’s cause of action. In a special sense, to set out the claim or count of the demandant

In criminal law. One who unlawfully makes base coin in imitation of the true metal, or forges false currency, or any instrument of writing, bearing a likeness and similitude to that which