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Defenso

Defenso. That part of any open field or place that was allotted for corn or hay, and upon which there was no common or feeding, was anciently said to be in defenso;

Damage feasant or faisant

happen from his not repairing his fences), and there doing damage by feeding, or otherwise, to the grass, corn, wood, etc., the person damaged may distrain and impound them, as well by night as in the day,

Cousin

the share of the excluded kindred goes to the Crown or the Duchy of Lancaster or Duke of Corn wall, who may make certain ex gratia distributions, see s. 46 of the (English) A.E. Act, 1925.

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Coraage

Coraage, an extraordinary imposition, upon some unusual occasion; it seems to be of certain measures of corn, Blount.

Coppa

Coppa, a cop or cock of grass, hay, or corn, divided into titheable portions, that it may be more fairly and justly tithed, Jac. Law Dict.

Contract

as he will do certain work; or to give a certain price for every bushel of so much corn as corresponds to a sample. As to the evidence required to prove certain kinds of contracts, see FRAUDS,

Confusion, property by

have an interest in common, in proportion to their respective shares; but if one wilfully intermix his money, corn, or hay, with that of another man, without his approbation or knowledge, or cast gold in like manner

Ciric-Sceat

[puniciti' seminum], churchscot, or shot, an ecclesiastical due, payable on the day of St. Martin, consisting chiefly of corn, Anc. Inst. Eng.

Churchesset

Churchesset [fr. churchset, ciricseat, Sax.], corn paid to the church. Fleta says it signifies a certain measure of wheat, which in times past every

Measure

upon a measure of capacity. The 25th chapter of Magna Charta prescribes one measure of wine, ale, and corn 'though our realm.'Also an enactment of the National Assembly of the Church of England (q.v.)

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