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In Scotch law. An accounting party.

A count or earl. In the ancient French law, the comtc was an officer having jurisdiction over a particular district or territory, with functions partly military and partly judicial.

Accorded; conceded. This term, frequently used in the old reports, signifies that the court admitted or assented to a point or proposition made on the argument.

See PBESUMP- TION. CONCORD. In the old process of levying a fine of lands, the concord was an agreement between the parties (real or feigned) in which the deforciant (or he who

In the civil law. The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to give something of value. It differs from robbery, in this: That in robbery the thing is taken by

In the civil law. Co- ownerships or limited ownerships, such as emphyteusis, supcrficics, piynus, hypotheca, ususfructus, usus, and habitatio. These were more than mere jura in re aliend, being portion of the

In criminal law. A voluntary statement made by a person charged with the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, communicated to another person, wherein he acknowledges himself to be guilty of the

The grantor in a deed of confirmation

A mode of extinguishing a debt, by the concurrence in the same person of two qualities which mutually destroy one another. This may occur in several ways, as where the creditor becomes

In old English law. An associate judge. Bract. 403

In Spanish law. A recognizance. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 7, c. 5,

In ecclesiastical law. To dedicate to sacred purposes, as a bishop by imposition of hands, or a church or churchyard by prayers, etc. Consecration Is performed by a bishop cr archbishop. Consecratio

404, 85 N. W. 635; St. Mark’s Church v. Teed, 120 N. Y. 5S3, 24 N. E. 1014; Fertilizer Co. v. Dunan, 91 Md. 144, 46 Atl. 347, 50 L. R- A.

To consolidate means something more than rearrange or redivide. In a general sense, it means to unite into one mass or body, as to consolidate the forces of an army, or various

In French law. An affidavit made by a liuissier, setting forth the appearance, form, quality, color, etc., of any article upon which a suit depends. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 554.

To put together; to arrange or marshal the words of an instrument. To ascertain the meaning of language by a process of arrangement and inference. See CONSTRUCTION.

The completion of a thing; the completion of a marriage between two affianced persons by cohabitation. Sharon v. Sharon, 79 Cal. 633, 22 Pac. 26.

Words sometimes annexed to a bill of lading of goods in cases. Their meaning is that the master only means to acknowledge the shipment, in good order, of the cases, as to

In old English law. A formal claim made by a party entitled to enter upon any lands or tenements, but deterred from such entry by menaces, or bodily fear, for the purpose

Against the party who proffers or puts forward a thin