日期：2008-03-12 COMPOSITION , contracts. An agreement, made upon a sufficient consideration, between a debtor and creditor, by which the creditor accepts part of the debt due to him in satisfaction of the whole. Montagu on Compos. 1; 3 Co. 118; Co. Litt. 212, b; 4... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMPENSATION , crim. law; Compeusatio crimiuura, or recrimination (q. v.) 2. In cases of suits for divorce on the ground of adultery, a compensation of the crime hinders its being granted; that is, if the defendant proves that the party has also com... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMPENSATIO CRIMINIS . The compensation or set-off of one crime against another; for example, in questions of divorce, where one party claims the divorce on the ground of adultery of his or her companion, the latter may show that the complainant has... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMPANION , dom. rel. By 5 Edw. III., st. 5, c. 2, 1, it is declared to be high treason in any one who doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, or our lady his companion, c. See 2 Inst. 8, 9; 1 H. H. P. C. 124. COMPANIONS , French law... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMMUNITY . This word has several meanings; when used in common parlance it signifies the body of the people. 2. In the civil law, by community is understood corporations, or bodies politic. Dig. 3, 4. 3. In the French law, which has been adopted in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMMORANCY , persons. An abiding dwelling, or continuing as an inhabitant in any place. It consists, properly, in sleeping usually in one place., COMMORANT . One residing or inhabiting a particular place. Barnes, 162. COMMORIENTES . This Latin word... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMMON SCOLD , Crim. law, communes rixatrix. A woman, who, in consequence of her boisterous, disorderly and quarrelsome tongue, is a public nuisance to the neighborhood. 2. Such a woman may be indicted, and on conviction, punished. At common law, th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMMON COUNCIL . In many cities the charter provides for their government, in imitation of the national and state governments. There are two branches of the legislative assembly; the less numerous, called the select, the other, the common council. 2... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMMON CARRIER , contracts. One who undertakes for hire or reward to transport the goods of any who may choose to employ him, from place to place. 1 Pick. 50, 53; 1 Salk. 249, 250; Story, Bailm. 495 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1020. 2. Common carriers are gene... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMMON APPENDANT , Eng. law. A right attached to arable land, and is an incident of tenure, and supposed to have originated by grant of the lord or owner of a manor or waste, in consideration of certain rents or services, or other value, to a freeho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMMODATUM . A contract, by which one of the parties binds himself to return to the other certain personal chattels which the latter delivers to him, to be used by him, without reward; loan -for use. Vide Loan for use. COMMON . or right of common, E... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMMITTEE , practice. When a person has been found non compos, the law requires that a guardian should be appointed to take care of his person and estate; this guardian is called the committee. 2. It is usual to select the committee from the next of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 TO COMMIT . To send a person to prison by virtue of a warrant or other lawful writ, for the commission of a crime, offence or misdemeanor, or for a contempt, or non-payment of a debt. COMMITMENT , criminal law, practice. The warrant. or order by whi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMMISSION OF REB ELLION , chan. prac. The name of a writ issuing out of chancery, generally directed to four special commissioners, named by the plaintiff, commanding them to attach the defendant wheresoever he may be found within the state, as a r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMMISSARIATE . The whole body of officers who act in the department of the commissary, are called the, commissariate. COMMISSARY . An officer whose principal duties are to supply the army witli provisions. 2. The Act of April 14, 1818, s. 6, requir... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COMMAND . This word has several meanings. 1. It signifies an order; an apprentice is bound to obey the lawful command of his master; a constable may command rioters to keep the peace. 2. He who commands another to do an unlawful act, is accessary to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COLOR OR OFFICE , criminal law. A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office; in some cases the act amounts to a misdemeanor, and the party may then be indicted. In other cases, the remedy to redress the wrong is by an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COLONEL . An officer in the army, next below a brigadier general, bears this title. COLONY . A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother country. 3 W. C. C. R. 287. The country occu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COLLEGE . A civil corporation, society or company, authorized by law, having in general a literary object. In some countries by college is understood the union of certain voters in *one body; such bodies are called electoral colleges; as, the colleg... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 COLLATIO BONORUM , descent, distribution. Where a portion or money advanced to a son or daughter, is brought into botchpot, in order to have an equal distributive share of the ancestor's personal estate. The same rule obtains in the civil law. Civil... 阅读全文>>