Category: C

To dispute; to deny; to oppose or contest; to take issue on. Buggy Co. v. Patt, 73 Iowa, 4S5, 35 N. W. 5S7; Swenson v. Klelnschmldt, 10 Mont. 473, 20 Pac. 198.

In canon law. The act of summoning or calling together the parties by summoning the defendant

In the civil law. The name of a species of slander or injury uttered in public, and which charged some one with some act contra bonos mores.

One who Is a partner with one or more other persons; a member of a partnership.

Commissioners appointed to carry into effect various acts of parliament, having for their principal objects the compulsory commutation of manorial burdens and restrictions, (fines, heriots, rights to timber and minerals, etc.,) and

A commissioned officer of cavalry, abolished in England in 1871, and not existing in the United States army

Physical punishment as distinguished from pecuniary punishment or a fine; any kind of punishment of or inflicted on the body, such as whipping or the pillory; the term may or may not

The dead body of a human being.

Ancient armor which covered the body

A joint promisor

A species of tenancy in Ireland, constituted by an agreement in writing, and subject to the following terms: That the tenement consist of a dwellinghouse with not more than half an acre

Certain general counts or forms inserted in a declaration in an action to recover a money debt, not founded on the circumstances of the individual case, but intended to guard against a

In conveyancing. The corresponding part of an instrument; a duplicate or copy. Where an instrument of conveyance, as a lease, is executed in parts, that is, by having several copies or duplicates

One which lies wholly within one county, and which is thereby distinguished from a state road, which is a road lying in two or more counties. State v. Wood County, 17 Ohio,

This court was established by St. 20 & 21 Vict. c. So, which transferred to it all jurisdiction then exercisable by any ecclesiastical court in England, in matters matrimonial, and also gave

An assembly of the members of the Court of Brotherhood (supra) together with other representatives of the corporate members of the Cinque I’orts, invited to sit with the mayors of the seven

The superior courts, both of law and equity, were for centuries fixed at Westminster, an ancient palace of the monarchs of England. Formerly, all the superior courts were held before the king’s

The party who makes a covenant. Shep. Touch. 160.

On the morrow, the day after. The return-day of writs; because the first day of the term was always some saint’s day, and writs were returnable on the day after. 2 Reeve,

A creditor of a municipal corporation who receives a certificate of indebtedness for the amount of his claim, there being no funds on hand to pay him. Johnson v. New Orleans, 46