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One who Is in the habit of being in a particular place is said to be conversant there. Barnes, 162. Acquainted ; familiar.

In economics. The combined action of numbers. It is of two distinct kinds: (1) Such co-operation as takes place when several persons help each other In the same employment; (2) such cooperation

See MANCIPATIO.

Before you. A writ of error directed by a court of review to the court which tried the cause, to correct an error in fact 3 Md. 325; 3 Steph. Comm. 642.

The name of a writ issued to the sheriff, commanding him to proceed to the election of a coroner

A “close” corporation is 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

In the civil law. Co- stipulators; joint stipulators.

In old English law. To cheat. “A cosening knave.” 3 Leon. 171

In old English law. A cottager, who held in free socage, and paid a stated fine or rent in provisions or money, with some occasional personal services

Under the English judicature act. 1S73,

A sign put upon goods already marked; also the several marks put upon goods belonging to several persons, to show that they must not be opened, but in the presence of all

The portion of the earth’s surface occupied by an independent nation or people; or the inhabitants of such territory. In its primary meaning “country” signifies “place;” and. in a larger sense, the

Commercial paper is said to be transferred, or sales alleged to have been fraudulent may be shown to have been made, “in the course of business,” or “in the usual and ordinary

The oldest court in the state of New York. Its jurisdiction is unlimited as respects amount, but restricted to the city and county of New York as respects locality. It has also

A species of private courts of a limited though extensive jurisdiction, which, upon the thorough reduction of that principality and the settling of its polity in the reign of Henry VIII., were

In practice. The name of a common-law form of action ex contractu, which lies for the recovery of damages for breach of a covenant, or contract under seal. Stickney v. Stickney, 21

A secret conspiracy or agree- . ment between two or more persons to injure J or defraud another. Mix v. Muzzy, 28 Conn. 191; Anderson v. Oscamp (Ind. App.) 35 N. E.

In international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the

Twilight In the law of burglary, this term means the presence of sufficient light to discern the face of a man : such light as exists immediately before the rising of the

The crime of burning, which included not only the modem crime of arson, but also the burning of a man, a beast, or other chattel. Britt. c. 0: Crabb, Eng. Law, 308.