Category: C

It is considered. Held to mean the same with considcratum est. 2 Strange, S74.

In the civil law. The union of the usufruct with the estate out of which it issues, in the same person; which happens when the usufructuary acquires the estate, or vice versa.

To establish, constitute, or ordain. “Constating instruments” of a corporation are its charter, organic law, or the grant of powers to it. See examples of the use of the term. Green’s Brice,

To ravish, debauch, violate, rape. See Harper v. Delp, 3 Ind. 230; Koenig v. Nott, 2 Hilt. (N. Y.) 329

One capable of being transmitted by mediate or immediate contact. See Grayson v. Lynch, 163 U. S. 468, 16 Sup. Ct. 1004, 41 L. Ed. 230; Stryker v. Crane, 33 Neb. 690,

Adjacent; adjoining ; having a common boundary; coterminous

The adjournment or postponement of an action pending in a court, to a subsequent day of the same or another term. Com. v. Maloney, 145 Mass. 205, 13 N. E. 482; State

In the civil law. Against the will, (testament.) Dig. 37. 4.

In Spanish law. A counter-writing; counter-letter. A docu- ? ment executed at the same time with an act J of sale or other instrument, and operating by way of defeasance or otherwise

To supply a share or proportional part of money or property towards the prosecution of a common enterprise or the discharge of a joint obligation. Park v. Missionary Soc., 02 Vt. 19,

In English law. Cognizance or jurisdiction. Conusance of pleas. Termes de la Ley.

Religious men united in a convent or religious house. Cowell

In the law of homicide. Calmness or tranquillity; the undisturbed possession of one’s faculties and reason; the absence of violent passion, fury, or uncontrollable excitement.

The name of a writ that lay where a man could not get a copy of a libel at the hands of a spiritual judge, to have the same delivered to him.

In presence of a person not a judge. When a suit is brought and determined in a court which has no jurisdiction in the matter, then it is said to be coram

The oath administered to a sovereign at the ceremony of crowning or investing him with the insignia of royalty, in acknowledgment of his right to govern the kingdom, in which he swears

In reference to municipal corporations, and especially to their powers of taxation, a “corporate purpose” is one which shall promote the general prosperity and the welfare of the municipality, (Wetherell v. De-

Discipline; chastisement administered by a master or other person in authority to one who has committed an offense, for the purpose of curing his faults or bringing him into proper subjection.

In Spanish law. A term corresponding to the res communes of the Roman law, and descriptive of such things as are open to the equal and common enjoyment of all persons and

A cot or hut Blount