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Customary law. Law derived-by oral tradition from a remote antiquity. BeU

A contest, dispute, disturbance, opposition. Britt. c. 42; Kelham. Contcckours ; brawlers; disturbers of the peace. Britt. c. 29.

In an ecclesiastical cause, that stage of the suit which is reached when the defendant has answered the libel by giving in an allegation.

Enduring; not terminated by a single act or fact; subsisting for a definite period or intended to cover or apply to successive similar obligations or occurrences. As to continuing “Consideration,” “Covenant,” “Damages,”

Against law or treaty; prohibited. Goods exported from or imported into a country against its laws. Braiule. Articles, the importation or exportation of which is prohibited by law. P. Enc.

In French law. The civil process of arrest of I the person, which is imposed upon vendors

In old English law. A writ that lay where tenants in common were bound to do some act, and one of them was put to the whole burthen, to compel the rest

Cognizant; acquainted with; having actual knowledge; as, if a party knowing of an agreement In which he has an Interest makes no objection to it, he is said to be conusant. Co.

One who Is in the habit of being in a particular place is said to be conversant there. Barnes, 162. Acquainted ; familiar.

In economics. The combined action of numbers. It is of two distinct kinds: (1) Such co-operation as takes place when several persons help each other In the same employment; (2) such cooperation

See MANCIPATIO.

Before you. A writ of error directed by a court of review to the court which tried the cause, to correct an error in fact 3 Md. 325; 3 Steph. Comm. 642.

The name of a writ issued to the sheriff, commanding him to proceed to the election of a coroner

A “close” corporation is one in which the directors and officers have the power to fill vacancies in their own number, without allowing to the general body of stockholders any choice or

In the civil law. Co- stipulators; joint stipulators.

In old English law. To cheat. “A cosening knave.” 3 Leon. 171

In old English law. A cottager, who held in free socage, and paid a stated fine or rent in provisions or money, with some occasional personal services

Under the English judicature act. 1S73,

A sign put upon goods already marked; also the several marks put upon goods belonging to several persons, to show that they must not be opened, but in the presence of all

The portion of the earth’s surface occupied by an independent nation or people; or the inhabitants of such territory. In its primary meaning “country” signifies “place;” and. in a larger sense, the