Category: C

One in which the directors and officers have the power to fill vacancies in their own number, without allowing to the general body of stockholders any choice or vote in their election.

The edge or margin of a country bounding on the sea. It is held that the term includes small islands and reefs naturally connected with the adjacent land, and rising above the

The process of collecting and arranging the laws of a country or state into a code, t. e., into a complete system of positive law, scientifically ordered, and promulgated by legislative authority.

Lat. In the civil law. Cognates; relations by the mother’s side. 2 HI. Comm. 235. Relations in the line of the mother. Hale, Com. Law, c. xi. Relations by or through females.

To fashion pieces of metal into a prescribed shape, weight, and degree of fineness, and stamp them with prescribed devices, by authority of government, in order that they may circulate as money.

A writ directed to justices of the common pleas, commanding them to issue their writ to the bishop, for the admission of a clerk in the place of another presented by the

In maritime law. The act of ships or vessels striking together. In its strict sense, collision means the impact of two vessels both moving, and is distinguished from allision, which designates the

Young poles, which, being cut down, are made levers or lifters. Blount

A writ by which the charge of a county, together with the keeping of a castle, is committed to the sheriff

In French law. The delivery of a benefice to one who cannot hold the legal title, to keep and manage it for a time limited aud render an account of the proceeds.

The commonalty or the people

See COUNTY.

A right annexed to the possession of arable land, by which the owner is entitled to feed his beasts on the lands of another, usually of the owner of the manor of

One not solemnized in the ordinary way, but created by an agreement to marry, followed by cohabitation; a consummated agreement to marry, between a man and a woman, per verba de prnesenti,

The common council of the realm. One of the names of the English parliament.

A common stock of descent; a common ancestor.

The study of the principles of legal science by the comparison of various systems of law

Indemnification; payment of damages; making amends; that which is necessary to restore an injured party to his former position. An act which a court orders to be done, or money which a

Sound of mind. Having use and control of one’s mental faculties.

Arbitrators are Judges.