Category: C

A collection or compendium of laws. A complete system of positive law, scientifically arranged, and promulgated by legislative authority. Johnson v. Harrison, 47 Minn. 575, 50 N. W. 923, 28 Am. St.

One who is a joint executor with one or more others

One of several to whom an Inheritance descends.

In old English law. A comparison of marks or seals. A mode of testing the genuineness of a seal, by comparing it with another known to be genuine. Adams. See Bract, fol.

The college or society of the admiralty

That semblance or presumption of authority sustaining the acts of a public officer which is derived from his apparent title to the office or from a writ or other process in his

This phrase, anciently used in the language of pleading, and still surviving in some jurisdictions, occurs at the commencement of a defendant’s plea or demurrer; and of its two verbs the former

In French law. A special or limited partnership, where the contract is between one or more persons who are general partners, and jointly and severally responsible, and one or more other persons

A phrase used to designate the whole body of substantive jurisprudence applicable to the rights, intercourse, and relations of persons engaged in commerce, trade, or mercantile pursuits. It is not a very

A written authority issued by a court of justice, giving power to take C the testimony of witnesses who cannot be per- l sonally produced in court. Tracy v. Suydam, 30 Barb.

Lat. In the civil law. An action of loan; an action for a thing lent. An action given for the recovery of a thing loaned, (commodatuin,) and not returned to the lender.

In pleading. (Otherwise called “blank bar.”) A plea to compel the plaintiff to assign the particular place where the trespass has been committed. Steph. PI. 256.

Several persons who perish at the same time in consequence of the same calamity.

In Scotch law. The right enjoyed by married persons in the movable goods belonging to them. Bell. Communis error facit jus. Common error makes law. 4 Inst. 240; Noy, Max. p. 37,

One of the knights of the Order of the Garter.

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.