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Common opinion ; general professional opinion. According to Lord Coke, (who places it on the footing of observance or usage.) common opinion is good authority in law. Co. Litt. 180a. COMMUNIS PARIES

A society or association of persons, in considerable number, interested in a common object, and uniting themselves for the prosecution of some’commercial or industrial undertaking, or other legitimate business. Mills v. State.

In Spanish law. Compensation; set-off. The extinction of a debt by another debt of equal dignity

In civil practice. In those states having a Code of Civil Procedure, the complaint is the first or initiatory pleading on the part of the plaintiff in a civil action. It corresponds

In Spanish law. Purchase and sale. COMPRINT 235 COMPUTATION

One not made voluntarily, but exacted by duress, threats, the enforcement of legal process, or unconscionably taking advantage of another. Shaw v. Woodcock, 7 Barn. & C. 73; Beckwith v. Frisbie. 32

Relating to ; pertaining to; affecting; involving; being engaged in or taking part in. U. S. v. Fulkerson (D. C.) 74 Fed. 631; May v. Brown, 3 Barn. & C. 137; Ensworth

The end; the termination ; the act of finishing or bringing to a close. The conclusion of a declaration or complaint is all that part which follows the statement of the plaintiff’s

To agree; accord; consent. In the practice of appellate courts, a “concurring opinion” is one filed by one of the judges or justices, in which he agrees with the conclusions or the

An action which lay to recover a thing stolen, against the thief himself, or his heir. Inst. 4, 1, 19

In old English law. A woman at fourteen or fifteen years of age may take charge of her house and receive cone and key; that is, keep the accounts and keys. Cowell.

The conveyance of an estate, or the communication of a right that one hath In or unto lands or tenements, to another that hath the possession thereof, or some other estate therein,

In English ecclesiastical law. Adherence to the doctrines and usages of the Church of England.

In Saxon law. Fel- low-members of a guild

In old English law. A plot or compact made by persons combining by oath to do any public harm. Cowell. The offense of having conference or commerce with evil spirits, in order

Kinship; blood relationship ; the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor. 2 Bl. Comm. 202; Blodgett v. Brinsmaid, 9 Vt. 30; State v. De Hart,

In English practice. A superseded instrument, in which a defendant in an action of ejectment specified for what purpose he intended to defend, and undertook to confess not only the fictitious lease,

In practice. A writ of entry, framed under the provisions of the statute Westminster 2, (13 Edw. I.,) c. 24, which lay for the benefit of the reversioner, where a tenant by

In criminal law. A combination or confederacy between two or more persons formed for the purpose of committing, by their joint efforts, some unlawful or criminal act, or some act which is

The process, or the art, of determining the sense, real meaning, or proper explanation of obscure or ambiguous terms or provisions in a statute, written instrument, or oral agreement, or the application