Category: C

An involuntary nonsuit. See NONSUIT

In the civil law. A theft (furtum) was called “conceptum,” when the thing stolen was searched for, and found upon some person in the presence of witnesses. Inst. 4, 1, 4.

Ended; determined; estopped ; prevented from.

(1) A woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not married. (2) A sort of inferior wife, among the Romans, upon whom the husband did not confer his rank

An action which lay to recover anything which the plaintiff had given or paid to the defendant, by mistake, and which he was not bound to give or pay, either in fact

A thing hired.

To complete or establish that which was imperfect or uncertain; to ratify what has been done without authority or insufficiently. Boggs v. Mining Co.. 14 Cal. 305; Railway Co. v. Ransom, 15

In this conflict certain rules are applicable, viz.: (1) Special take precedence of general presumptions; (2) constant of casual ones; (3) presume in favor of innocence; (4) of legality; (5) of validity;

Lawful; permissible; allowable. “Disseisin is properly where a man entereth into any lands or tenements where his entry is not congcable. and 1/ putteth out him that hath the freehold.” Litt.

In old English law. A swearing together; an oath administered to several together; a combination or confederacy under oath. Cowell. In old European law. A compact of the inhabitants of a commune,

In civil and feudal law. A half-brother by the father’s side, as distinguished from frater uterinus, a brother by the mother’s side. Consanguineus est quasi eodem sanguine natus. Co. Litt. 157. A

See JUDGMENT

A day appointed to hear the counsel of both parties. A case set down for argument. It is commonly used for the day appointed for the argument of a demurrer, or errors

In maritime law. An agreement or stipulation between the owners of different vessels that they shall keep in company, mutually aid, instead of interfering with each other, in wrecking and salvage, and

This term is held to be exactly equivalent with “restraint.” Edmondson v. Harris, 2 Tenn. Ch. 427.

The custom or practice of a court. Ilardr. 141

Lat Contemporaneous exposition, or construc- BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

In the Roman law. Continuing; holding together. Adjoining buildings were said to be continentia.

Against good morals. Contracts contra bono.? mores are void.

Certain contracts are those in which the thing to be done is supposed to depend on the will of the party, or when, in the usual course of events, it must happen