日期：2008-03-12 CONSCIENCE . The moral sense, or that capacity of our mental constitution, by which we irresistibly feel the difference between right and wrong. 2. The constitution of the United States wisely provides that no religious test shall ever be required.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONQUETS , 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 and wife, either by his or her industry or good fortune, enure... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONNIVANCE . An agreement or consent, indirectly given, that something unlawful shall be done by another. 2. The connivance of the husband to his wife's prostitution deprives him of the right of obtaining a divorce; or of recovering damages from the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONNECTICUT . The name of one of the original states of the United States of America. It was not until the year 1665 that the territory now known as the state of Connecticut was united under one government. The charter was granted by Charles II. in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONGRESS , med. juris. This name was anciently given in France, England, and other countries, to the-indecent intercourse between married persons, in the presence of witnesses appointed by the courts, in cases when the husband or wife was charged by... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONGE' . A French word which signifies permission, and is understood in that sense in law. Cunn. Diet. h. t. In the French maritime law, it is a species of passport or permission to navigate, delivered by public authority. It is also in the nature o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONFRONTATION , crim. law, practice. The act by which a witness is brought in the presence of the accused, so that the latter may object to him, if he can, and the former may know and identify the accused, and maintain the truth in his presence. No... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONFLICT OF LAWS . This phrase is used to signify that the laws of different countries, on the subject-matter to be decided, are in opposition to each other; or that certain laws of the same country are contradictory. 2. When this happens to be the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONIFISCATION . The act by which the estate, goods or chattels of a person who has been guilty of some crime, or who is a public enemy, is declared to be forfeited for the benefit of the public treasury. Domat, Droit Public, liv. 1, tit. 6, s. 2, n.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONFIRMATIO CHARTORUM . The name given to a statute passed during reign of the English king Edward I. 25 Ed. I., c. 6. See Bac. Ab. Smuggling, B. CONFIRMATION , contracts, conveyancing. 1 . A contract by which that which was voidable, is made firm a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONFESSIONS AND AVOIDANCE , pleadings. Pleas in confession and avoidance are those which admit the averments in the plaintiff Is declaration to be true, and allege new facts which obviate and repel their legal effects. 2. These pleas are to be consi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONFEDERATION , government. The name given to that form of government which the American colonies, on shaking off the British yoke, devised for their mutual safety and government. 2. The articles of confederation, (q. v.) were finally adopted on the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONDUCT , law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great seal, to a stranger, for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which it... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONDITION , persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise. Thus the situation arising from marriage gives... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONDEMNATION , civil law. A sentence of judgment which condemns some one to do, to give, or to pay something; or which declares that his claim or pretensions are unfounded. This word is also used by common lawyers, though it is more usual to say con... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONCORDATE . A convention; a pact; an agreement. The term is generally confined to the agreements made between independent government's; and, most usually applied to those between the pope and some prince. CONCUBINAGE . This term has two different s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONCILIUM REGIS . The name of a tribunal which existed in England during the times of Edward I. and Edward H., composed of the judges and sages of the law. To them were referred cases of great difficulty. Co. Litt. 804. CONCLAVE . An assembly of car... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 CONCEALMENT , contracts. The unlawful suppression of any fact or circumstance, by one of the partis to a contract, from the other, which in justice ought to be made known. 1 Bro. Ch. R. 420; 1 Fonbl. Eq. B. 1, c. 3, 4, note (n); 1 Story, Eq. Jur. 20... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMPULSION . The forcible inducement to au act. 2. Compulsion may be lawful or unlawful. 1. When a man is compelled by lawful authority to do that which be ought to do, that compulsion does not affect the validity of theact; as for example, when a c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMPROMISSARIUS , civil law. A name sometimes given to an arbitrator; because the parties to the submission usually agree to fulfil his award as a compromise. COMPTROLLERS . There are officers who bear this name, in the treasury depart ment of the U... 阅读全文>>