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To appropriate property to the use of the state. To adjudge property to be forfeited to the public treasury; to seize and condemn private forfeited property to public use. Ware v. Hylton,

A union of the qualities of debtor and creditor in the same person. The effect of such a union is. generally, to extinguish the debt. 1 Salk. 306; Cro. Car. 551

One of the names of marriage, among the Romans. Tayl. Civil Law, 284.

In modern civil law. A joint possession. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

In French law. A family council. Certain acts require the sanction of this body. For example, a guardian can neither accept nor reject an inheritance to which the minor has succeeded without

In the civil law. To deposit in the custody of a third person a thing belonging to the debtor, for the benefit of the creditor, under the authority of a court of

The act or process of uniting several actions into one trial and judgment, by order of a court, where all the actions are between the same parties, pending in the same court,

A word used as a correlative to “attorney,” to denote one who constitutes another his agent or invests the other with authority to act for him. ‘ It is also used in

In ecclesiastical law. A ritual or book, containing the rites and forms of divine offices, or the customs of abbeys and monasteries

In English law. The commission received for carrying over or putting off the time of execution of a contract to deliver stocks or pay for them at a certain time. Wharton.

To make defense to an adverse claim in a court of law; to oppose, resist, or dispute the case made by a plaintiff. Pratt v. Breckinridge, 112 Ky. 1, 65 S. W.

In pleading. A form of allegation in which the trespass, criminal offense, or other wrongful act complained of is charged to have been committed on a specified day and to have “continued”

In old English law. Against gage and pledge. Bract, fol. 156. Contra legem facit qui id facit quod lex prohibit; in fraudem vero qui, salvis verbis legis, sententiam ejus circum- venit. He

Counterfeiting; as contrafactio sigilli regis, counterfeiting the king’s seal. Cowell. K

In common law. The sharing of a loss or payment among several. The act of any one or several of a number of co-debtors, co-sureties, etc., in reimbursing one of their number

See COGNIZANCE.

In the Roman law. A court of sessions held in the Roman provinces, by the president of the province, assisted by a certain number of counsellors and assessors, at fixed periods, to

Time to recover “cool blood” after severe excitement or provocation ; time for the mind to become so calm and sedate as that it is supposed to contemplate, comprehend, and coolly act

In Scotch practice. A true copy. Words written at the top of copies of instruments.

Before the peers or freeholders. The attestation of deeds, like all other solemn transactions, was originally done only coram paribus. 2 Bl. Comm. 307. Coram paribus de vicineto. before the peers or