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  • CONSCIENTIA REI ALIEN
    In Scotch law. Knowledge of another's property ; knowledge that a thing is not one's own, but belongs to another. He who has this knowledge, and retains possession, is chargeable with "violent profits."
  • CONSCRIPTION
    Drafting into the military service of the state; compulsory service falling upon all male subjects evenly, within or under certain specified ages. Kneedler Lane, 45 Pa. 267.
  • CONSECRATE
    In ecclesiastical law. To dedicate to sacred purposes, as a bishop by imposition of hands, or a church or churchyard by prayers, etc. Consecration is performed by a bishop or archbishop. Consooratio est periodus electlonis; electio est prsBambula oonseerationis. 2 Rolle, 102. Consecration is the termination of election; election is More...
  • CONSEDO
    Sp. A term used in conveyances under Mexican law, equivalent to the English word "grant" Mulford v. Le Franc, 26 CaL 103.
  • CONSEIL DE FAMILLE
    In French law. A family council. Certain acts require the sanction of this body. For example, a guardian can neither accept nor reject an inheritance to which the minor has succeeded without its authority, (Code Nap. 461;) nor can he accept for the child a gift inter vivos without the More...
  • CONSEIL JUDICIAIRE
    In French law. When a person has been subjected to an Interdiction on the ground of his insane extravagance, but the interdiction is not absolute, but limited only, the court of first instance, which grants the interdiction, appoints a council, called by this name, with whose assistance the party may More...
  • CONSEILS DE PRUDHOMMES
    In French law. A species of trade tribunals, charged with settling differences between masters and workmen. They endeavor, in the first instance, to conciliate the parties. In default, they adjudicate upon the questions in dispute. Their decisions are final np to 200/. Beyond that amount, appeals lie to the tribunals More...
  • CONSENSUAL CONTRACT
    A term derived from the civil law, .denoting a contract founded upon and completed by the mere consent of the contracting parties, without any external formality or symbolic act to fix the obligation. Consensus est Voluntas plurium ad quos res pertinet, simnl juncta. Lofft 514. Consent is the conjoint will More...
  • CONSENT
    A concurrence of wills. Express consent is that directly given, either viva voce or in writing. Implied consent is that manifested by signs, actions, or facts, or by inaction or silence, which raise a presumption that the consent has been given. Cowen v. Paddock, 62 Hun, 622, 17 N. Y. More...
  • CONSENT-RULE
    In English practice. A superseded instrument in which a defendant in an action of ejectment specified for what purpose he intended to defend, and undertook to confess not only the fictitious lease, entry, and ouster, but that be was in possession. Consentiontes et agentes pari poena plectentur. They who consent More...
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