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Cosenage, or cosinage
Cosenage, or cosinage, kindred, cousinship. Also a writ that lay for the heir where the tresail, i.e., the father of the besail, or great-grandfather, was seised of lands in fee at his death, and a stranger...
Communia placita nontenenda in scaccario
Communia placita nontenenda in scaccario, an ancient writ directed to the Treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, forbidding them to hold pleas between common persons (i.e., not debtors to the king, who alone originally sued and...
Corpus cum causa
Corpus cum causa, a writ issuing out of Chancery to remove both the body and record touching the cause of any man lying in execution on a judgment for debt into the King's Bench, there to...
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Coronatre exonerando
Coronatre exonerando, a writ for the removal of a coroner, for a cause which is to be therein assigned, as that he is engaged in other business, or incapacitated by years or sickness, or has been...
Coronatore eligendo
Coronatore eligendo, the writ issued before the commencement of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, to the sheriff, commanding him to proceed to the election of a coroner.
Corodio habendo
Corodio habendo, a writ to exact a corody of an abbey or religious house, Reg. Brev. 264.
Copia libelli deliberanda
Copia libelli deliberanda, a writ that lay where a man could not get a copy of a libel at the hands of a spiritual judge, to have the same delivered to him, Ref. Brev. 51.
Convention
Convention, 'convention' means the Convention on International Civil Aviation opened for signatures at Chicago on the 7th December, 1944. [Foreign Aircraft (Exemption from Taxes and Duties on Fuel and Lubricants) Act, (36 of 2002), s. 2(b);...
Contumace capiendo
Contumace capiendo. Excommunication in all cases of contempt in the spiritual courts is discontinued by 53 Geo. 3, c. 127, s. 2, and in lieu thereof, where a lawful citation or sentence has not been obeyed,...
Contributione facienda
Contributione facienda, a writ where tenants in common were bound to do some act, and one was put to the whole burthen, to compel the rest to make contribution, Reg. Brev. 175: Fitz. N.B. 162.
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