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CONNIVANCE
The secret or indirect consent or permission of one person to the commission of an unlawful or criminal act by another. Oakland Bank v. Wilcox, 60 Cal. 137 ; State […]
CONNOISSEMENT
In French law . An instrument similar to our bill of lading
CONNUBIUM
In the civil law . Marriage. Among the Romans, a lawful marriage as distinguished from “concubiuage,” (g. v.,) which was an inferior marriage.
CONOCIAMENTO
In Spanish law. A recognizance . White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 7, c. 5,
CONOCIMIENTO
In Spanish law. A bill of lading . In the Mediterranean ports it is called “poliza de caryamiento.”
CONQUEREUR
In Norman and old English law. The first purchaser of an estate ; he who first brought an estate into his family.
CONQUEROR
In old English and Scotch law. The first purchaser of an estate ; he who brought it into the family owning it. 2 Bl. Comm. 242, 243.
CONQUEST
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 .
CONQUESTOR
Conqueror. The title given to William of Normandy
CONQUETS
In French law . The name given to every acquisition which the husband and wife, jointly or severally, make during the conjugal community. Thus, whatever is acquired by the husband […]
CONQUISITIO
In feudal and old English law. Acquisition . 2 Bl. Comm. 242.
CONQUISITOR
In feudal law. A purchaser. acquirer, or conqueror. 2 Bl. Comm. 242, 243
CONSANGUINEUS
Lat A person related by blood; a person descended from the same common stock .
CONSANGUINEUS FRATER
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. […]
CONSANGUINITY
Kinship; blood relationship ; the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor. 2 Bl. Comm. 202; Blodgett v. Brinsmaid, 9 Vt. 30; State v. […]
CONSCIENCE
The moral sense; the faculty of judging the moral qualities of actions, or of discriminating between right and wrong; particularly applied to one’s perception and judgment of the moral qualities […]
CONSCIENCE OF THE COURT
This occurs when a matter of equity is decided by the court and it uses its conscience to decide the issue.
CONSCIENCE OF TLIE COURT
When an issue is sent out of chancery to be tried at law, to “inform the conscience of the court ,” the meaning is that the court is to be […]
CONSCIENCE, COURTS OF
Courts, not of record, constituted by act of parliament in the city of London, and other towns, for the recovery of small debts; otherwise and more commonly called “Courts of […]
CONSCIENTIA REI ALIENI
In Scotch law. Knowledge of another’s property ; knowledge that a thing is not one’s own, but belongs to another. lie who has this knowledge, and retains possession, is chargeable […]
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR
the term given to person who refuses to join an armed force because of their training and religious beliefs.
CONSCIENTIOUS SCRUPLE
A conscientious scruple against taking an oath, serving as a juror in a capital case, doing military duty, or the like, is au objection or repugnance growing out of the […]
CONSCIOUS MINOR
This term deals with routine treatment where surgical and medical treatment cannot be given to a minor without the consent of a parent, next of kin or a guardian.
CONSCRIPTION
Drafting Into the military service of the state: compulsory service falling upon all male subjects evenly, within or under certain specified ages. Kneedler v. Lane, 45 Pa. 207.