Category: C

A fold, pen, or place where cattle lie. Cowell

In the Scotch law. A part of the proceedings in a cause, setting forth the facts of the case on the part of the pursuer or plaintiff.

In the civil law. An action which the hirer (conductor) of a thing might have against the letter, (locator.) Inst. 3, 25, pr. 2.

In the civil law. An action for enforcing a servitude. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

The act of confiscating ; or of condemning and adjudging to the public treasury

In the French law. Per- y mission, leave, license; a passport or clear- n ance to a vessel; a permission to arm, equip, or navigate a vessel.

In the civil law. Things joined together or united; as distinguished from disjuncta, things disjoined or separated. Dig. 50, 16, 53.

In feudal law. Conquest; acquisition by purchase; any method of acquiring the ownership of an estate other than by descent. Also an estate acquired otherwise than by inheritance.

In French law. A species of trade tribunals, charged with settling differences between masters and workmen. They endeavor, in the first instance, to conciliate the parties. In default, they adjudicate upon the

In mercantile law. One to whom a consignment is made. The person to whom goods are shipped for sale. Lyon v. Alvord, IS Conn. 80; Gillespie v. Winberg, 4 Daly (N. Y.)

The union or merger into one corporate body of two or more corporations which had been separately created for similar or connected purposes. In England this is termed “amalgamation.” When the rights,

A Latin term, signifying ice constitute or appoint.

In old English law. Customs. Thus, consuetudines et assisa forestce, the customs and assise of the forest.

One who has committed contempt of court. Wyatt v. People, 17 Colo. 252, 28 Pac. 961

In Roman law. Contestation of suit; the framing an issue; joinder in issue. The formal act of both the parties with which the proceedings in jure were closed when they led to

Uninterrupted; unbroken; not intermittent or occasional; so persistently repeated at short intervals as to constitute virtually an unbroken series. Black v. Canal Co., 22 N. J. Eq. 402; Ilofer’s Appeal, 110 Pa.

Certain classes of merchandise, such as arms and ammunition, which, by the rules of international law, cannot lawfully be furnished or carried by a neutral nation to either of two belligerents; if

In old English law. Counter-obligation. Literally, counter-binding. Est enirn obligatio quasi contraligatio. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 56,

A person liable to contribute to the assets of a company which Is being wound up, as being a member or (in some cases) a past member thereof. Mozley & Whitley.

See COQNIZOB.