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  • COPARCENERS
    Persons to whom an estate of Inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as an entire estate. 2 Bl. Comm. 187.
  • COPARTICEPS
    In old English law. A coparcener.
  • COPARTNER
    One who is a partner with one or more other persons; a member of a partnership.
  • COPARTNERSHIP
    A partnership.
  • COPARTNERY
    In Scotch law. The contract of copartnership. A contract by which the several partners agree concerning the communication of loss or gain, arising from the subject of the contract Bell.
  • COPE
    A custom or tribute due to the crown or lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire; also a hill, or the roof and covering of a house; a church vestment.
  • COPEMAN, OR COPESMAN
    A chapman, (q. 17.)
  • COPESMATE
    A merchant; a partner in merchandise.
  • COPIA
    Lat. In civil and old English law. Opportunity or means of access. In old English law. A copy. Copia Ubelli, the copy of a libel. Reg. *Orig. 58. —Copia libelli deliberandi The name Of a writ that lay where a man could not get a copy of a libel at More...
  • COPPA
    In English law. A crop or cock of grass, hay, or corn, divided into titheable portions, that it may be more fairly and justly tithed.
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