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Compounding
Compounding, arranging, coming to terms; compounding a felony is where the party robbed not only knows the felon, but also takes his goods again, or other amends, upon an agreement not to prosecute; this offence was...
Commission to inquire of faults against the law
Commission to inquire of faults against the law, anciently set forth an extraordinary occasions and corruptions.
Combustio pecuni'
Combustio pecuni'. The ancient way of trying mixed and corrupt money by melting it down, Jacob.
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Colour of office
Colour of office, when an act is unjustly done by the countenance of an office, being grounded upon corruption, to which the office is as a shadow and colour, Plowd. 64.
Collusion
Collusion [fr. collusio, Lat., fr. colludo, to unite in the same play or game, and thus to unite for the purposes of fraud or deception], an agreement or compact between two or more persons to do...
Civil death
Civil death. A man is said to be civilly dead (civiliter mortuus) when he has been attainted of treason or felony, and, in former times, when he adjured the realm or went into a monastery. The...
Castigatory
Castigatory, a certain engine of correction, otherwise called the tre-bucket, tumbrel tymborella, cucking-stool, scolding-stool, ducking-stool, goginstole, and cokestole, corrupted from choaking-stool. It was a punishment provided for scolding women, wherein they were plunged or soused overhead...
Material facts and material particulars
Material facts and material particulars, all those facts which are essential to clothe the petitioner with a complete cause of action, are 'material facts' which must be pleaded, and failure to plead even a single material...
Obstruction of justice
Obstruction of justice, means interference with the orderly administration of law and justice, as by giving false information to or withholding evidence from a police officer or prosecutor, or by harming or intimidating a witness or...
Mise
Mise [Fr., mise, mise en gage, stake-money], disbursement, costs; also a tax or tallage, etc.' also, the issue in a writ of right. It is sometimes corruptly used for measeor mees-i.e., a messuage.
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