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Category: C

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.

CONDITIONAL FEE (ESTATE)

the owning of property that is similar to a fee simple except the property must eventually be passed on to the heirs.

CONTRACT PRICE

the term given to the amount of money that is to paid under a contract to render a service.

CO-EQUAL

the term that is applied to something being the same rank, of the same value and equal to something else.

COVER UP

This term is given to mean to hide a thing that is unlawful or to evade and impede investigations.

CRIME COMMON-LAW

These are crimes that are committed and are punishable under common law and not crimes that have been created by statutes.

CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION

This term is applied to the binding promise or obligation that comes from an agreement or contract.

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