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  • CONTRAVENING EQUITY
    A right or equity, in another person, which is inconsistent with and opposed to the equity sought to be enforced or recognised.
  • CONTRAVENTION
    In French law. An act which violates the law, a treaty, or an agreement which the party has made. That infraction of the law punished by a fine which does not exceed fifteen francs and by an imprisonment not exceeding three days. Pen. Code, 1. In Scotch law. The act More...
  • CONTRECTARE
    Lat. In the civil law. To handle; to take hold of; to meddle with. In old English law. To treat Vel male contrectet; or shall ill treat Fleta, lib. 1, c. 17, f 4.
  • CONTRECTATIO
    In the civil and old English law. Touching; handling; meddling. The act of removing a thing from its place in such a manner that, if the thing be not restored, it will amount to theft. Controctatio rei aliens), animo fnran-di, est furtum. Jenk. Cent. 132. The touching or removing of More...
  • CONTREFACON
    In French law. The offense of printing or causing to be printed a book, the copyright of which is held by another, without authority from him. Merl. Repert.
  • CONTRE-MAITRE
    In French marine law. The chief oflicer of a vessel, who, in case of the sickness or absence of the master, commanded in his place. Literally, the counter-master.
  • CONTRIBUTE
    To supply a share or proportional part of money or proj>erty towards the prosecution of a common enterprise or the discharge of a joint obligation. Park v. Missionary Soc, 62 Vt 19, 20 AtL 107; Railroad Co. v. Creasy (Tex.* Civ. App.) 27 S. W. 945.
  • CONTRIBUTION
    In common law. The sharing of a loss or payment among several. The act of any one or several of a number of co-debtors, co-sureties, etc., in reimbursing one of their number who has paid the whole debt or suffered the whole liability, each to the extent of his proportionate More...
  • CONTRIBUTIONS FACIENDA
    In old English law. A writ that lay where tenants In common were hound to do some act, and one of them was put to the whole burthen, to compel the rest to make contribution. Reg. Orig. 175; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 162.
  • CONTRIBUTORY
    n. A person liable to contribute to the assets of a company which is being wound up, as being a member or (in some cases) a past member thereof. Mozley A Whitley.
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