Category: C

Officers appointed by and attached to the circuit courts of the United States, performing functions partly ministerial and partly judicial. To a certain extent they represent the judge in his ab- sense.

In, England, those administering the common law- Equitable L. Assur. Soc. v. Paterson, 41 Ga. 304, 5 Am. Rep. 535

A “civil commotion” Is an insurrection of the people for general purposes, though it may not amount to re- COMMUNE 229 COMMUNIS OPINIO belllon where there is a usurped power. 2 Marsh.

In old English law. A common writing; a writing common to both parties; a chirograph. Glan. lib. 8, c. 1.

That method of interpretation which seeks to arrive at the meaning of a statute or other writing by comparing its several parts and also by comparing it as a whole with other

(Set-off of crime or guilt.) In practice. The plea of recrimination in a suit for a divorce; that is. that the complainant is guilty of the same kind of offense with which

One who is united with others in an ill design; an associate; a confederate; an accomplice.

An arrangement arrived at, either in court or out of court, for settling a dispute upon what appears to the parties to be equitable terms, having regard to the uncertainty they are

A term sometimes used to characterize the transfer of title to property under the exercise of the power of eminent domain. In re Barre Water Co., 62 Vt. 27, 20 Atl. 109,

Lat We have granted. A term used in conveyances, the effect of which was to create a joint covenant on the part of the grantors

An inference drawn from the subordinate or evidentiary facts

Having the same authority ; acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act; contributing to the same event; contemporaneous. As to concurrent “Covenants,” “Jurisdiction,” “Insurance,” “Lease,” “Lien,” and “Writs,” see those titles

In the civil law. The rank, situation, or degree of a particular person in some one of the different orders of society. An agreement or stipulation in regard to some uncertain future

The making and completion of a written instrument. 5 Coke, 1.

A diminishing confirmation. A confirmation which tends and serves to diminish and abridge the services whereby a tenant doth hold, operating as a release of part of the services. Shep. Touch. 311.

Brethren in a religious house; fellows of one and the same society. Cowell.

An assembly or so- ciety of persons who together constitute the flf] principal supporters of a particular parish, or habitually meet at the same church for religious exercises. Robertson v. Bullions, 9

Relations by blood or marriage, but more commonly the relations of a person with whom one is connected by marriage. In this sense, the relations of a wife are “connections” of her

A conscientious scruple against taking an oath, serving as a juror in a capital case, doing military duty, or the like, is au objection or repugnance growing out of the fact that