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COMMON USE

This phrase refers to the articles that are used by the general public and are sold widely in many markets.

CHARGE-OFF

an accounting term where one item is eliminated from an assets list when it is lost or is deemed to be worthless.

COVENANT NOT TO COMPETE

the type of agreement where a party agrees not to compete against another business of a similar kind.

COMMON JURY

This term is applied to the jury that is ordinary and not a special jury or a grand jury.

CUSTODIAL CARE

the extended care that is given in a nursing home by skilled nursing facilities.

CASH SALE

a manner of payment that implies that the seller will be paid in cash.

CORPORATE REORGANIZATION

the process that reorganises a company that will make it into a more profitable business and get it out of its financial troubles.

COMPLY

This means to act in accordance with your obligations, to yield or to carry into effect or to accommodate something.

COLLAPSIBLE CORPORATION

corporation that has been designed purposely to be liquidated before it has accumulated enough money to have to pay taxes.

CERTIFICATE OF ASSIZE

a writ or a formal document where a second trial on the same issue was held before the same jury due to mistake of the court.

CRIME AGAINST NATURE

the term given to a sex perversion such as that as seen between an human and an animal or between people that is seen as being deviating from “normal”.

COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION

federal government agency that supports the prices of agricultural products through, purchases, loans and subsidies and helps to sell the products in foreign and domestic markets.

COUNTER PLEA

the term given to a plea that is placed on record in the reply to another plea.

CLOSED HEARING

This term is applied to a trial that is held in private and is the opposite of an open court.

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