Category: C

Staying or abiding; dwelling temporarily in a place

In the civil law. A term signifying a community (q. v.) of goods.

An English statute, (8 Vict c. 16,) passed in 1845, which consolidated the clauses of previous laws still remaining in force on the subject of public companies. It is considered as incorporated

An adversary or accuser. Compendia rant dispendia. Co. Lltt. 305. Abbreviations are detriments.

A literary production, composed of the works of others and arranged in a methodical manner

In Louisiana. The maker of a composition, generally called the “amicable compounder.”

That which takes place where the consent of one of the parties is enforced by statutory provisions. Wood v. Seattle, 23 Wash. 1, 62 Pac. 135, 52 L. R. A. 369.

In medical jurisprudence, the beginning of pregnancy, (g. v.)

To finish; determine; to estop; to prevent.

In Roman law. An informal, unsanctioned, or “natural” marriage, as contradistinguished from the justw nuptial, or jus turn matrimonium, the civil marriage.

An action arising where the law gave a remedy, but provided no appropriate form of action. Calvin

In the civil law. A person who engages to perform a piece of work for another, at a stated price.

Confinement may be by either a moral or a physical restraint, by threats of violence with a present force, or by physical restraint of the person. U. S. v. Thompson, 1 Sumn.

An old form of confiscate.

A permission or license from the British sovereign to a dean and chapter to elect a bishop, in time of vacation; or to an abbey or priory which is of royal foundation,

Where several material facts are stated conjunctively in the complaint, an answer which undertakes to deny their averments as a whole, conjunctively stated, is called a “conjunctive denial.” Doll v. Good, 38

Lat A person related by blood; a person descended from the same common stock.

A concurrence of wills. Express consent is that directly given, either lira voce or in writing. Implied consent is that manifested by signs, actions, or facts, or by inaction or silence, which

In the civil law. A counsellor, as distinguished from a pleader or advocate. An assistant judge. One who participates in the decisions. Du Cange.

In the civil law. A union of fortunes; a lawful Roman marriage. Also, the Joining of several persons as parties to one action. In old English law, the term signified company or