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Misrepresentation

Misrepresentation, 'Misrepresentation' means and includes-- (1) the positive assertion, in a manner not warranted by the information of the person making it, of that which is not true, though he believes it to be true; (2)...

De melioribus damnis, judgment

De melioribus damnis, judgment. Where the jury, by mistake, severed the damages between several defendants in an action of trespass, the plaintiff might cure the defect by taking judgment de melioribus damnis against one, and entering...

County Courts

County Courts. The old County Court was a tribunal inident to the jurisdiction of a sheriff, but was not a Court of Record. Proceedings were removable into a superior court by recordari facias loquelam, or writ...

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Counterpart

Counterpart, the corresponding partor duplicte; the key of a cipher. When the severalprts of an indenture (as is almost invariably the case with a lease) are interchangeably executed by the several parties, that partor copy which...

Conventio in unum

Conventio in unum, the agreement between the two parties to a contract upon the sense of the contract proposed. It is an essential part of the contract, following the pollicitation or proposal emanating from the one,...

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...

Consensus tollit errorem

Consensus tollit errorem. Co. Litt. 126.-(Consent [acquiescence] removes mistake.) See Broom's Max. and title WAIVER.

Deed

Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act,...

Patent error

Patent error, a patent error is an error which is self-evident, i.e., which can be perceived or demonstrated without involving into any lengthy or complicated argument or a long-drawn process of reasoning. Where two inferences are...

Nonvidentur qui errant consentire

Nonvidentur qui errant consentire.-(They do not appear to consent who commit a mistake.) See Broom's Leg. Max.

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