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CONTROLLER

as a cause to the plaintiff's own injury. See 59 Conn. 261, 21 Am. St. Rep. 104.

Controller. An officer in charge of financial affairs of a public or private corporation.

Controlment. The checking of an account.

Controver. An inventor of false

news.

Controversy. The claim of a litigant before a court for adjudication by regular proceedings established for protection and redress. See 154 U. S. 447, 38 L. Ed. 1047, 14 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1125.

Contubernium. A marriage of slaves.

Contumace capiendo. See De contumace capiendo.

Contumacy. Contemptuous disobedience of a judicial order. Contumax. An outlaw.

Contusion. A bruise without a breaking of the skin.

Contutor. A coguardian.
Conus. Known.

Conusance. Same as Cognizance. Conusance of pleas. Exclusive jurisdiction.

Conusant. Having notice or knowledge.

Conusee. One to whom a recognizance is made.

Conusor. One entering into a recognizance.

Convalescere. To become valid.
Convenable. Suitable; proper.
Convene. (Civil Law) To file an
action.

Convenire. To covenant; to sue.
Convenit. It is agreed.
Conventicle. A prayer-meeting of

dissenters.

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CONVEY

Convey. To transfer.

Conveyance. A transfer of property; the document effecting a transfer. See 21 Barb. (N. Y.) 551.

Conveyance by record. One evidenced by a court's order. Conveyancer. One making a business of conveyancing. Conveyancing. Preparing documents for the transfer of property and investigating the title. thereto. See 3 Mass. 487. Convicia si irascaris tua divulgas; spreta exolescunt. If you angered by insults, you publish them; despised, they are forgotten.

Convicium. Insult; slander.

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Convict. One who is undergoing sentence for crime.

Convict lease. A letting out of convicts to serve a contractor. Conviction. Finding guilty one accused of crime. See 48 La. Ann. 109, 35 L. R. A. 701, 18 South. 943. Convivium. A land tenure by service of providing food and drink to the lord.

Convocation. An assembly of the English clergy.

Convoy. A naval escort for a merchantman.

Co-obligor. One of two or more persons jointly obligated. Cooling time. The time after a provocation during which the provocation is deemed active. See 3 Gratt. (Va.) 594, 46 Am. Dec. 196.

Co-operative business corporations. Those authorized to divide profits with persons other than the stockholders.

Co-opertus. Covered.

COPYRIGHTED

Coparcenary, estates in. Estates inherited by two or more jointly. Coparceners. Joint heirs of an estate.

Coparticeps. A coparcener. Copartner. A partner. Copartnership. A partnership. Copartnery. (Scotch) A partnership.

Cope. A duty on lead from Derbyshire mines.

Copeman. A chapman or peddler.
Copesmate. A merchant.
Copia. A copy; opportunity.
Copia vera. A true copy.

Copia libelli deliberanda. (Eccles.)
A writ commanding the defendant
to furnish the plaintiff with a
copy of the complaint.
Coppa Crops stacked for tithing.
Coppice, or copse. A thicket.
Copula. Sexual intercourse.
Copulatio verborum indicat accepta-
tionem in eodem sensu. Coupling
of words indicates their use in the
same sense. See 11 Allen (Mass.),
470.

Copulative condition. A condition depending upon the happening of each of several events. Copyhold. An English land tenure in which the tenant held under a copy of the roll in the lord's court; the land so held. See 2 Bl. Comm. 95.

Copyholder. A tenant who held by copyhold.

Copyright. An exclusive right or privilege of publishing one's literary or artistic works. See 99 U. S. 674, 25 L. Ed. 308. Copyrighted. A term implying that the protection applicable to copyrights has been secured. See 16

CORAM

Colo. 388, 25 Am. St. Rep. 279, 26
Pac. 556.

Coram domino rege ubicunque tunc fuerit angliae. Before our lord the king wherever he may then be in England.

Coram ipso rege. In the presence of

the king himself.

Coram me vel justiciariis meis. Before me or my justices.

Coram nobis. In our presence; before us.

Coram non judice. Acts done without jurisdiction. See 1 Conn. 40, 6 Am. Dec. 200.

Coram paribus. In the presence of peers or equals.

Coram paribus de vicineto. Before his peers in the neighborhood. Coram sectatoribus. Before the suitors.

Coram vobis. Before you.
Corespondent.

One accused in divorce of adultery with the defend

ant.

Corf. A box coal carrier used in mining coal.

Corium forfisfacere. Forfeiture of skin; punishment by flogging. Corn laws. Statutes regulating commerce in grain.

Cornage. A tenure by the service of blowing a horn to warn of a Scotch invasion.

Corn-rents. Rents paid in corn.
Corodium. Corody.

Corody. An incorporeal heredita-
ment allowing means of suste-
nance to the holder.
Corona. A crown.

Coronare. To crown; to make one a priest. Coronare filium. a priest. Coronator. Coroner.

To make one's son

CORPOREAL

Coroner. An officer charged with the duty of holding inquests over the bodies of persons dying by violence. See 20 Ga. 336. Corporal. Pertaining to the body. Corporal oath. Swearing on the

Bible.

Corporale sacaramentum. A corporal oath.

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Corporalis injuria non recipit aestimationem de futuro. Bodily injury does not look to future proceedings for compensation. Corporation. A corporation is artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. See 17 U. S. 518, 4 L. Ed. 629. Corporation aggregate. A corporation composed of more than one person.

Corporation de facto. One organized and operated under color of law, but not legally constituted. See 80 Tex. 344, 26 Am. St. Rep. 743. Corporation de jure. One whose right to exercise a corporate function is proof against quo warranto proceedings. See 40 Neb. 470, 24 L. R. A. 259.

Corporation sole. A corporation having but one member. See 23 Wend. (N. Y.) 103.

Corporator. One joining in the formation of a corporation.

Corpore et animo. In body and mind.

Corporeal. Having substance; tangible.

Corporeal hereditaments. Such inheritable property as may be perceived by the senses, e. g., land. See 2 BI. Comm. 19.

Corporeal property. Property which may be perceived by the senses, as land.

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body of the Roman law, being the Digest, the Institutes, the Code and the Novellae of Justinian. Correction, house of. See House of Correction.

Corregidor. (Spanish) The chief magistrate of a town.

Correi credendi. Joint creditors. Correi debendi. Joint debtors. Corroborate. To testify in confir mation of other testimony. Corruptio optimi est pessima. Corruption of the best is the worst. See 221 U. S. 263, 55 L. Ed. 729, 31 Sup. Ct. Rep. 555. Corruption. Official dishonesty, such as bribery. See 43 Wis. 344. Corruption of blood. Disqualification to inherit, as by attainder. See 110 N. Y. 317, 6 Am. St. Rep. 368, 1 L. R. A. 264, 18 N. E. 148. Corruptive. Unlawfully; corruptly. Corse-present. A gift to the priest from the decedent's property at the burial of his body.

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piece of bread given to an accused person.

Cortes. The national legislature of Portugal.

Corvée. (French) An exaction of labor for repair of roads, bridges, etc., of the inhabitants of a district.

Cosa juzgada. (Spanish) Res adjudicata.

Cosbering. The lord's right to sleep
and eat at the tenant's house.
Cosduna. A custom; a tribute.
Cosen, or cozen. To cheat.
Cosening. Cheating.

Coshering. (Irish) An old custom
by which the lord of the manor
might feast at a tenant's house.
Cosinage, cousinage, or cosenage.
Collateral relationship.
Costipulator. A joint promisor.
Costs. Court and official charges
usually included in the judgment
in a cause. See 58 Ala. 578.
Costs de incremento. Costs found
by the court above those found by
the jury. See 13 How. (U. S.)
372, 14 L. Ed. 186.

Costs of prosecution. Costs incurred by the plaintiff.

Costs of the day. Costs taxed against a party in a proceeding incidental to the main action. Costs to abide event. Costs to be borne by the losing party on a new trial. See 50 Hun (N. Y.), 441, 3 N. Y. Supp. 297. Costumbre. (Spanish) Custom. Cosurety. One of two or more sureties jointly obligated. Cotarius. A cottager.

Cotenancy. Exists if two or more are entitled in such manner that they have undivided possession,

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Coucher. A banker; a factor.
Coucher de soel. Sunset.

Council. The title of the governing body of many cities.

Council of censors. A council elected every seven years to examine into the conduct of state officials and constitutional violations.

Council of conciliation. An arbitra

tion council for trade and labor disputes.

Council of the north. A court established under Henry VIII in the northern counties of England. Counsel. A counselor; an attorney; the attorneys representing a litigant. See 15 N. J. L. 269. Counselor at law. An attorney admitted to practice; an advising lawyer.

Count. The statement of one of two

or more causes of action contained in one pleading; to plead. See 5 Johns. (N. Y.) 430.

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Counterfeiting.

The crime of making spurious coin in imitation of the genuine.

Counterfoil. The part of a docu

ment, torn off and retained by the maker, as a check stub. Counter-letter. A defeasance by a separate instrument. See 11 Pet. (U. S.) 351, 9 L. Ed. 746. Countermand. To revoke a previous order.

Counterpart. A duplicate; one of the parts of an indenture. See 17 Misc. Rep. 323, 40 N. Y. Supp. 381. Counter-plea. A replication or plea in reply to another plea. Counter-roll. A duplicate record. Counter-security. Indemnification of a surety.

Countersign. To authenticate by an additional signature. See 33 Am. St. Rep. 712.

Countez. Count; Count the jury. Country. The public; a jury; any place out of court. See Settlement in pais.

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