In English law . A small dwelling-house that has no land belonging to it. Shep. Touch. 94; Emerton v. Selby, 2 Ld. Raym. 1015; Scholes v. Hargreaves, 5 Term, 46; […]

A species of tenancy in Ireland, constituted by an agreement in writing, and subject to the following terms: That the tenement consist of a dwellinghouse with not more than half […]

Receipts given for each bale of cotton received on storage by a public warehouse . Fourth Nat. Bank v. St. Louis Cotton Compress Co., 11 Mo. App 337.

Coat armor.

A term used In Domesday for peasants, boors, husbandmen

Lying down; squatting. Couch ant and levant (lying down and rising up) is a term applied to animals trespassing on the land of one other than their owner, for one […]

A factor who continues abroad for traffic, (37 Edw. III. c. 16;) also the general book wherein any corporation , etc., register their acts, (3 & 4 Edw. VI. c. […]

An assembly of persons for the purpose of concerting measures of state or municipal policy; hence called “councillors.”

By the Act 30 & 31 Vict. c. 105, power is given for the crown to grant licenses for the formation of councils of conciliation and arbitration , consisting of […]

Under the English judicature act. 1S73,

A court instituted by Henry VIII. in 1537, to administer justice in Yorkshire and the four other northern counties. Under the presidency of Stratford, the court showed great rigor, bordering, […]

a term given to a lawyer, attorney or a counsellor. To counsel someone means to advise them.

An advocate, counsellor, or pleader. 3 Bl. Comm. 20; 1 Kent, Comm. 307. One who assists his client with advice, and pleads for him in open court.

This is required, in some jurisdictions, to be affixed to pleadings, as affording the court a means of judging whether they are interposed in good faith and upon legal grounds.

Counsellors who are associated with those regularly retained in a cause, either for the purpose of advising as to the points of law involved, or preparing the case on its […]

This term apples to a person who is an attorney and has been admitted to the bar and is able to practice.

(Fr. comtcj from the Latin comes.) An carl.

Counting upon a statute consists in making express reference to it, as by the words ” against the form of the statute ” (or “by the force of the statute”) […]

In English parliamentary law. Forty members form a house of commons; and, though there be ever so many at the beginning of a debate, yet, if during the course of […]

The different parts of a declaration , each of which, if it stood alone, would constitute a ground for action, are the counts of the declaration. Used also to signify […]

To declare; to recite; to state a case; to narrate the facts constituting a plaintiffs cause of action . In a special sense, to set out the claim or count […]

In old English law . The most eminent dignity of a subject before the Conquest. lie was prwfectus or propositus eomitatus, and had the charge and custody of the county; […]

In old English law . Credit; estimation. Wharton. Also, encouragement: aiding and abetting. Cooper v. Johnson, 81 Mo. 487

the term given to a plea that is placed on record in the reply to another plea.

An affidavit made and presented in contradiction or opposition to an affidavit which is made the basis or support of a motion or application