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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...
Certiorari
Certiorari (to be more fully informed of), an original writ issuing out of the Crown side of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, addressed, in the king's name, to judges or officers...
Colonial Attorneys Relief Acts (English)
Colonial Attorneys Relief Acts (English), 1857, 1874, and 1884 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 39, 37 & 38 Vict. c. 41, and 47 & 48 Vict. c. 24). These Acts provided for the admission, to practise...
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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...
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...
Clerk of Assize
Clerk of Assize. An officer attached to the assizes who attends to various duties on the civil side, acting as associate (q.v.). As to necessary qualifications, etc., see (English) Clerks of Assize Act, 1869, and s....
Clausula vel dispositio inutilis per presumptionem vel causam remotam ex post facto non fulcitur
Clausula vel dispositio inutilis per presumptionem vel causam remotam ex post facto non fulcitur [Lat.], An un-necessary clause or disposition is not upheld by a remote presumption or a cause arising after the event.
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