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  • COOL BLOOD
    In the law of homicide. Calmness or tranquillity; the undisturbed possession of one's faculties and reason; the absence of violent passion, fury, or uncontrollable excitement
  • COOLING TIME
    Time to recover "cool blood" after severe excitement or provocation; time for the mind to become so calm and sedate as that it is supposed to contemplate, comprehend, and coolly act with reference to the consequences likely to ensue. Eanes v. State, 10 Tex. App. 447; May v. People, 8 More...
  • CO-OPERATION
    In economics. The combined action of numbers. It is of two distinct kinds: (1) Such co-operation as takes place when several persons help each other in the same employment; (2) such co-operation as takes place when several persons help each other in different employments. These may be termed '*stmple co-operation" More...
  • COOPERTIO
    In old English law. The head or branches of a tree cut down; though coopertio arborum is rather the bark of timber trees felled, and the chumps and broken wood. Cowell.
  • COOPERTUM
    In forest law. A covert; a thicket (dumetum) or shelter for wild beasts in a forest Spelman.
  • COOPERTURA
    In forest law. A thicket or covert of wood.
  • COOPERTUS
    Covert; covered.
  • CO-OPTATION
    A concurring choice; the election, by the members of a close corporation, of a person to fill a vacancy.
  • CO-ORDINATE
    Of the same order, rank, degree, or authority; concurrent; without any distinction of superiority and inferiority; as, courts of "co-ordinate jurisdiction." See JURISDICTION. Co-ordinate and subordinate are terms often applied as a test to ascertain the doubtful meaning of clauses in an act of parliament If there be two, one More...
  • COPARCENARY
    A species of estate, or tenancy, which exists where lands of inheritance descend from the ancestor to two or more persons. It arises in England either by common law or particular custom. By common law, as where a person, seised in fee-simple or fee-tall, dies, and his next heirs are More...
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