Category: C

An abridgment, synopsis, or digest.

A collection of the statutes existing and in force in a given state, all laws and parts of laws relating to each subject-matter being brought together under one head, and the whole

The offense committed by a person who, having been directly injured by a felony, agrees with the criminal that he will not prosecute him. on condition of the latter’s making reparation, or

An involuntary nonsuit. See NONSUIT

In the civil law. A theft (furtum) was called “conceptum,” when the thing stolen was searched for, and found upon some person in the presence of witnesses. Inst. 4, 1, 4.

Ended; determined; estopped ; prevented from.

(1) A woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not married. (2) A sort of inferior wife, among the Romans, upon whom the husband did not confer his rank

An action which lay to recover anything which the plaintiff had given or paid to the defendant, by mistake, and which he was not bound to give or pay, either in fact

A thing hired.

To complete or establish that which was imperfect or uncertain; to ratify what has been done without authority or insufficiently. Boggs v. Mining Co.. 14 Cal. 305; Railway Co. v. Ransom, 15

In this conflict certain rules are applicable, viz.: (1) Special take precedence of general presumptions; (2) constant of casual ones; (3) presume in favor of innocence; (4) of legality; (5) of validity;

Lawful; permissible; allowable. “Disseisin is properly where a man entereth into any lands or tenements where his entry is not congcable. and 1/ putteth out him that hath the freehold.” Litt.

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 A superseded instrument, in which a defendant in an action of ejectment specified for what purpose he intended to defend, and undertook to confess not only the fictitious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

Lat. The custom of merchants, the same with lex meroatoria. Consuetudo contra rationem intro- ducta potius usurpatio quam consuetudo appellari debet. A custom introduced against reason ought rather to be called a

Contumacy; a willful disregard of the authority of a court of justice or legislative body or disobedience to its lawful orders. Contempt of court is committed by a person who does any