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COMPULSORY ARBITRATION

That which takes place where the consent of one of the parties is enforced by statutory provisions. Wood v. Seattle, 23 Wash. 1, 62 Pac. 135, 52 L. R. A. 369.

CONCEPTION

In medical jurisprudence, the beginning of pregnancy, (g. v.)

CONCLUDE

To finish; determine; to estop; to prevent.

CONCUBINATUS

In Roman law. An informal, unsanctioned, or “natural” marriage, as contradistinguished from the justw nuptial, or jus turn matrimonium, the civil marriage.

CONDICTIO EX LEGE

An action arising where the law gave a remedy, but provided no appropriate form of action. Calvin

CONDUCTOR OPERARUM

In the civil law. A person who engages to perform a piece of work for another, at a stated price.

CONFINEMENT

Confinement may be by either a moral or a physical restraint, by threats of violence with a present force, or by physical restraint of the person. U. S. v. Thompson, 1 Sumn.

CONGE D’ESLIRE

A permission or license from the British sovereign to a dean and chapter to elect a bishop, in time of vacation; or to an abbey or priory which is of royal foundation,

CONJUNCTIVE DENIAL

Where several material facts are stated conjunctively in the complaint, an answer which undertakes to deny their averments as a whole, conjunctively stated, is called a “conjunctive denial.” Doll v. Good, 38

CONSANGUINEUS

Lat A person related by blood; a person descended from the same common stock.

CONSENT

A concurrence of wills. Express consent is that directly given, either lira voce or in writing. Implied consent is that manifested by signs, actions, or facts, or by inaction or silence, which

CONSILIARIUS

In the civil law. A counsellor, as distinguished from a pleader or advocate. An assistant judge. One who participates in the decisions. Du Cange.

CONSORTIUM

In the civil law. A union of fortunes; a lawful Roman marriage. Also, the Joining of several persons as parties to one action. In old English law, the term signified company or

CONSTITUTION

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

CONSUETUDO ANGLICANA

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

CONTEMPLATION OF INSOLVENCY

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.

CONTINENCIA

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

CONTRA

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 AND REAL

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

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