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COPPER AND SCALES
See MANCIPATIO.

See MANCIPATIO. Less...
COPPICE, OR COPSE
A small wood, consisting of underwood, which may be cut at twelve or fifteen years' growth for fuel.

A small wood, consisting of underwood, which may be cut at twelve or fifteen years' growth for fuel. Less...
COPROLALIA
In medical jurisprudence. A disposition or habit of using obscene language, developing unexpectedly in the particular individual or contrary to his previous history and habits, recognized as a sign of insanity or of aphasia.

In medical jurisprudence. A disposition or habit of using obscene language, developing unexpectedly in the particular individual or contrary to his previous history and habits, recognized as a sign of insanity or of aphasia. Less...
COPULA
The corporal consummation of marriage. Copula, (in logic,) the link between subject and predicate contained in the verb. Oopnlatio ?erbornm indicat acccpta-tionent in eodem sensu. Coupling of words together shows that they are to be understood in the same sense. 4 Bacon's Works, p. 26; Broom, Max. 588.

The corporal consummation of marriage. Copula, (in logic,) the link between subject and predicate contained in the verb. Oopnlatio ?erbornm indicat acccpta-tionent in eodem sensu. Coupling of words together shows that they are to be understood in the same sense. 4 Bacon's Works, p. 26; Broom, Max. 588. Less...
COPULATIVE TERM
One which is placed between two or more others to Join them together.

One which is placed between two or more others to Join them together. Less...
COPY
The transcript or double of an original writing; as the copy of a patent charter, deed, etc. Exemplifications are copies verified by the great seal or by the seal of a court. West Jersey Traction Co. v. Board of Public Works, 57 N. J. Law, 313, 30 Atl. 581. Examined More...

The transcript or double of an original writing; as the copy of a patent charter, deed, etc. Exemplifications are copies verified by the great seal or by the seal of a court. West Jersey Traction Co. v. Board of Public Works, 57 N. J. Law, 313, 30 Atl. 581. Examined copies are those which have been compared with the original or with an official record thereof. Office copies are those made by officers Intrusted with the originals and authorized for that purpose. Id., Stamper v. Gay, 3 Wyo. 322, 23 Pac. 68. Less...
COPYHOLD
A species of estate at will, or customary estate in England, the only visible title to which consists of the copies of the court rolls, which are* made out by the steward of the manor, on a tenant's being admitted to any parcel of land, or tenement belonging to the More...

A species of estate at will, or customary estate in England, the only visible title to which consists of the copies of the court rolls, which are* made out by the steward of the manor, on a tenant's being admitted to any parcel of land, or tenement belonging to the manor. It is an estate at the will of the lord, yet such a will as is agreeable to the custom of the manor, which customs are preserved and evidenced by the rolls of the several courts baron, in which they are entered. 2 Bl. Comm. 95. In a larger sense, copyhold is said to import every customary tenure, (that is, every tenure pending on the particular custom of a manor,) as opposed to free socage, or free-bold, which may now (since the abolition of knight-service) be considered as the gen* eral or common-law tenure of the country. 1 Steph. Comm. 210. —Copyhold commissioners. Commissioners appointed to carry into effect various acts of parliament having for their principal objects the compulsory commutation of manorial burdens and restrictions, (fines, heriots, rights to timber and minerals, etc.,) and the compulsory enfranchisement of copyhold lands. 1 Steph. Comm. 643: Elton. Copyh.—Copyholder. A tenant by copyhold tenure, (by copy of court-roll.) 2 Bl. Comm. 95.—Privileged copyholds. Those copyhold estates which are said to be held according to the custom of the manor, and not at the will of the lord, as common copyholds are. They include customary freeholds and ancient demesnes. 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 709, § 919. Less...
COPYRIGHT
The right of literary property as recognized and sanctioned by positive law. A right granted by statute to the author or originator of certain literary or artistic productions, whereby he is invested, for a limited period, with the sole and exclusive privilege of multiplying copies of the same and publishing More...

The right of literary property as recognized and sanctioned by positive law. A right granted by statute to the author or originator of certain literary or artistic productions, whereby he is invested, for a limited period, with the sole and exclusive privilege of multiplying copies of the same and publishing and selling them. In re Rider, 16 R. I. 271, 15 Atl. 72; Mott Iron Works v. Clow, 83 Fed. 316, 27 C. C. A. 250; Palmer v. De .Witt, 47 N. Y. 536, 7 Am. Rep. 480; Keene v. Wheat-ley, 14 Fed. Cas. 185. An incorporeal right, being the exclusive privilege of printing, reprinting, selling, and publishing his own original work; which the law allows an author. Wharton. Copyright is the exclusive right of the owner of an intellectual production to multiply and dispose of copies; the sole right to the copy, or to copy it The word is used indifferently to signify the statutory and the common-law right; or one right is sometimes called "copyright" after publication, or statutory copyright; the other copyright before publication, or common-law copyright. The word is also used synonymously with "literary property;" thus, the exclusive right of the owner publicly to read or exhibit a work is often called "copyright" This is not strictly correct. Drone, Copyr. 100. International copyright is the right of a subject of one country to protection against the republication in another country of a work which he originally published in his own country. Sweet Less...
CORAAGIUM, OR CORAAGE
Measures of corn. An unusual and extraordinary tribute, arising only on special occasions. They are thus distinguished from services. Mentioned in connection with hidage and carvage. Cowell.

Measures of corn. An unusual and extraordinary tribute, arising only on special occasions. They are thus distinguished from services. Mentioned in connection with hidage and carvage. Cowell. Less...
CORAM
Lat. Before; in presence of. Applied to persons only. Townsh. PI. 22. —Coram domino rose. Before our lord the king. Coram domino rege ubicumgue tunc fu-erit Angliw, before our lord the king wherever he shall then be in England.—Coram ipso rose. Before the king himself. The old name of the More...

Lat. Before; in presence of. Applied to persons only. Townsh. PI. 22. —Coram domino rose. Before our lord the king. Coram domino rege ubicumgue tunc fu-erit Angliw, before our lord the king wherever he shall then be in England.—Coram ipso rose. Before the king himself. The old name of the court of king's bench, which was originally held before the king in person. 8 Bl. Comm. 41.—Coram nobis. Before us ourselves, (the king, i. in the king's'or queen's bench.) Applied to writs of error directed to another branch of the same court, e. g., from the full bench to the court at nisi prius. 1 Archb. Pr. K. B. 234.—Coram non jndice. In presence of a person not a judge. When a suit is brought and determined in a court which has no jurisdiction in the matter, then it is said to be coram non judice, and the judgment is void. Manufacturing Co. v. Holt, 51 W. Va. 352, 41 S. E. 351.—Coram paribus. Before the peers or freeholders. The attestation of deeds, like all other solemn transactions, was originally done only coram paribus. 2 Bl. Comm. 307. Coram paribus de iricineto, before the peers or freeholders of the neighborhood. Id. 315. Coram seotatorlbns; Before the suitors. Cro. Jac. 582.—^oram ?obis. Before you. A writ of error directed by a court of review to the court which tried the cause, to correct an error in fact. 3 Md. 325 ; 3 Steph. Comm. 642. Less...

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