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Concord

Concord, an agreement between parties, who intend to levy a fine of lands one to the other, how and in what manner the lands shall pass; it was the foundation and sustenance of the fine taken...

Confessing error

Confessing error, the affirmative plea to an assignment of error.

Connivance and consent

Connivance and consent, Connivance means consent. The plea of consent is one thing: the fact that connivance means consent (assuming that it does) is quite another.

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Conservators of the truce and safe conducts

Conservators of the truce and safe conducts, officers appointed to hear and determine questions relating to the breaking of the king's truce and safe conducts upon the main sea, out of the liberties of the Cinque...

Conspirators

Conspirators, those who bind themselves by oath, covenant, or other alliance, that each of them shall aid the other falsely and maliciously to indict persons; or falsely to move and maintain pleas, etc., 33 Edw. 1,...

Durham, County palatine of

Durham Court of Chancery, see these Acts; appeals from the Chancellor of Durham lie to the Court of appeal [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 28]; and as to the Durham Court of Pleas, see 33 Geo. 3,

Queen's Bench Division

known as the Queen's Bench or King's Bench, that presides over tort and contract actions, applications for judicial review, and some Magistrate-court appeals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259. The jurisdiction of the Court of Queen's

Supreme Court of Judicature

of His Majesty's High Court of Justice (referred to as the High Court), and His Majesty's Court of Appeal (referred to as the Court of Appeal). Formerly, by the (English) Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1873, ss.

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