In forest law. A thicket, or covert of wood.

Covert; covered.

a slang term used to describe a policeman or police officer .

A species of estate, or tenancy, which exists where lands of inheritance descend from the ancestor to two or more persons. It arises in England either by common law or […]

Persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as an entire estate. 2 Bl. Comm. 187.

In old English law . A coparcener

One who Is a partner with one or more other persons; a member of a partnership .

A partnership

In Scotch law. The contract of copartnership . A contract by which the several partners agree concerning the communication of loss or gain, arising from the subject of the contract. […]

A custom or tribute due to the crown or lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire; also a hill, or the roof and covering of a […]

A chapman, (q. v.)

A merchant; a partner in merchandise .

Lat. In civil and old English law. Opportunity or means of access. In old English law . A copy. Copia libelli, the copy of a libel. Reg. Orig. 58.

The name of a writ that lay where a man could not get a copy of a libel at the hands of a spiritual judge, to have the same delivered […]

In Scotch practice. A true copy. Words written at the top of copies of instruments.

In English law . A crop or cock of grass, hay, or corn, divided into titheable portions, that it may be more fairly and justly tithed

See MANCIPATIO .

A small wood consisting of underwood, which may be cut at twelve or fifteen years’ growth for fuel.

This terms means to plead guilty to a lesser offense than that charged and it is accepted by the court.

In medical Jurisprudence . A disposition or habit of using obscene language, developiug unexpectedly in the particular individual or contrary to his previous history and habits, recognized as a sign […]

The corporal consummation of marriage. Copula, (in logic,) the link between subject aud predicate contained in the verb. Copnlatio verborum indicat accepta- tionem in eodem sensu. Coupling of words together […]

One which Is placed between two or more others to join them together.

The transcript or double of an original writing; as the copy of a patent, charter, deed, etc. Exemplifications are copies verified by the great seal or by the seal of […]

A species of estate at will , or customary estate in England, the only visible title to which consists of the copies of the court rolls , which are made […]

Commissioners appointed to carry into effect various acts of parliament , having for their principal objects the compulsory commutation of manorial burdens and restrictions , (fines, heriots, rights to timber […]