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Clifford's Inn

Clifford's Inn, an Inn of Chancery. Anciently the town residence of the Barons Clifford, and demised in 1345 to a body of students of law. It was the most important of the Inns of Chancery and...

Collision of ships

Collision of ships, the striking or running foul of one ship against another. The remedy is either an action at law or a suit in the Admiralty Division. The possibilities under which a collision may occur,...

Common assurances

Common assurances, the legal evidences of the tran-slation of property, whereby every person's estate is assured to him. These common assurances are of four kinds:-(1) By matter in pais, or deed, which is an assurance transacted...

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Company

Company [fr. compagnia, Ital., which word is still printed on Bank of England notes as 'compa'], a body of persons associated for purposes of busi-ness, sometimes, but not now so frequently as some years ago, styled...

Confession of plea

Confession of plea. A plea containing a defence arising after the commencement of an action, or after the last pleading, might be confessed by the plaintiff, Reg. Gen. H.T. 1853, rr. 22, 23. See previous title.

Consideration

Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment...

Assessment of damages

Assessment of damages, the assessment of damages is split into two parts. The first part comprises damages for the period between death and trial. The multiplicand is multiplied by the number of years which have elapsed...

Assise of novel disseisin

Assise of novel disseisin, an action to recover property of which a party had been disseised, i.e., dispossessed, after the last circuit of the judges. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27.

Quintessence

The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body See Ferment oils under Ferment

Assassination

Assassination, murdering a person by lying in wait. In modern times the term is frequently applied to the open murder of great personages from political motives, as of the King of Italy by Brescia in 1900,...

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