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agency

injured by relying on and acting in accordance with that belief NOTE: A principal has a duty to correct a third party's mistaken belief in an agent's authority to act on the principal's behalf. If the principal

Civic nature

positively anti-social aims could claim to have objects of a civic nature. I do not consider that is correct because the requirement that a body has objects which are of a civic nature if it is to

Coke, Sir Edward

of the Criminal Law, 3rd Edn. 1883, at p. 364, to be an 'utter incapacity for anything like correct language or consecutive thoughts.' Lord Campbell, however, writes that his First Institute (being the Commentary on Littleton) 'may

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Co-owner

an owner of the entire property as any sole owner of the property is: Jurisprudentially, it is not correct to say that a co-owner of property is not its owner. He owns every part of the composite

Charities, or Public Trusts

causeways, churches, sea-banks, and highways; education and preferment of orphans; the relief, stock, or maintenance of houses of correction; marriages of poor maids; supportation, aid, and help of young tradesmen, handicraftsmen, and persons decayed; relief or redemption

Chivalry, Court of

other matters touching deeds of arms or war, as well as pleas of life or member. It also corrected encroachments in matters of coat-armour, precedency, and other distinctions of families. It has long grown entirely out of

Check-weigher

stationed at their own cost at each place appointed for the weighing of the mineral to take a correct amount of the weight. See Check-weighing in (English) Various Industries Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c.

Chastisement

Chastisement. As to legality of correction of a child by its parent, an apprentice or scholar by his master, or a criminal by an

Cominus

Cominus, or more correctly Comminus [Lat.], hand-to-hand; in personal contact.

Collation

Collation, the comparison of a copy with its original to ascertain its correctness; or the report of the officer who made the comparison.

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