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Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius

Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius, a writ directed to justices of the Common Pleas, commanding them to direct their writ to a bishop, for the admitting a clerk in the place of

Communia placita nontenenda in scaccario

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 were sued there) in

Concord

the fine taken and acknowledged by the party before one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, or before commissioners in the country; also an agreement made between two persons, one of whom has a

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Conservators of the truce and safe conducts

of his goods, the Lord Chancellor, with any of the justices of either the King's Bench or Common Pleas, should cause full restitution and amends to be made to the party injured, Jac. Law Dict.

Conspirators

of them shall aid the other falsely and maliciously to indict persons; or falsely to move and maintain pleas, etc., 33 Edw. 1, st. 2. Besides these, there are conspirators in treasonable purposes: as for plotting against

Coroner

Coroner. A very ancient officer at the Common Law, so called because he has principally to do with pleas of the Crown, appointed in boroughs by the Borough Council under ss. 171-174 of the (English) Municipal Corporations

Custos brevium

brevium (the keeper of the writs), a principal clerk belonging to the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, whose office it was to keep the writs returnable into those courts. Abolished by 1 Wm. 4, c.

Custos placitorum coron'

Custos placitorum coron' (the keeper of the pleas of the Crown). The custos rotulorum, Bract. Lib. 2, c. 5.

Damage-cleer

Damage-cleer [fr. damna dericorum,Lat.], a fee assessed of the tenth part in the Common Pleas, and the twentieth part in the King's Bench and Exchequer, out of all damages exceeding five marks recovered

Deceit

and MISREPRESENTATION; FRAUD. There was formerly a writ of deceit, which was an action brought in the Common Pleas to reverse a judgment obtained in any real action, by fraud or collusion between the parties to the

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