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Commonable beasts

Commonable beasts, such as are necessary for the ploughing or manuring of land, as horses, oxen, cows, and sheep.

Common stock or common hotchpot

Common stock or common hotchpot, the doctrine of throwing into common stock inevitably postulates that the owner of a separate property is a coparcener who has an interest in the coparcenary property and desires to blend...

Common intention

of Haryana, (1969) 3 SCC 717 (727). (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 34) Denotes action in concert and necessarily postulates a pre-arranged plan prior meeting of minds and an element of participation in action. Acts may different

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Commissioners for Oaths

Commissioners for Oaths. Masters extraordinary in Chancery acted in very early times as commissioners to administer oaths to persons making affidavits (see that title) before them concerning Chancery suits, and the judges of the Common Law...

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...

Carnal intercourse

Carnal intercourse, penetration is sufficient to constitute the carnal intercourse necessary to the offence described in this section. [Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 377, Expl.]

Colliery

Colliery. includes or may include all contiguous and connected veins and seams of coal which are worked as one concern, together with the workings and machinery necessary for working the minerals, Hodgson v. Field, (1806) 7...

Cognovit actionem

Cognovit actionem (he has confessed the action), a defendant's written confession of an action brought against him, to which he has no available defence. it is usually upon condition that he shall be allowed a certain...

Coat armour

Coat armour. Coats of arms were introduced by Richard I., from the Holy Lond, where they were first invented. Originally they were painted on the shields of the Christian knights, who went to the Holy Land...

Co-respondent

Co-respondent, the man charged with adultery. The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 177,enacts that on a petition for divorce presented by the husband or in the answer of a husband praying for divorce, the petitioner or...

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