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  • CORD
    A measure of wood, containing 128 cubic feet. Kennedy y. Railroad Co., 67 Barb. (N. Y.) 177.
  • CO-RESPONDENT
    A person summoned to answer a bill, petition, or libel, together with another respondent. Now chiefly used to designate the person charged with adultery with the respondent in a suit for divorce for that cause, and joined as a defendant with such party. Lowe v. Bennett, 27 Misc. Rep. 356, More...
  • CORIUM FORISFACERE
    To forfeit one's skin, applied to a person condemned to be whipped ; anciently the punishment of a servant. Corium perdere, the same. Cori-um rcdimere, to compound for a whipping. Wharton.
  • CORN
    In English law, a general term for any sort of grain; but in America it is properly applied only to maize. Sullins v. State, 53 Ala. 476; Kerrlck v. Van Dusen, 32 Minn. 317, 20 N. W. 228; Com. v. Pine, 3 Pa. Law J. 412. In the memorandum clause More...
  • CORNAGE
    A species of tenure in England, by which the tenant was bound to blow a horn for the sake of alarming the country on the approach of an enemy. It was a species of grand serjeanty. Bac. Abr. "Tenure," N.
  • CORNER
    A combination among the dealers in a specific commodity, or outside capitalists, for the purpose of buying up the greater portion of that commodity which is upon the market or may be Drought to market, and holding the same back from sale, until the demand shall so far "outrun the More...
  • CORNET
    A commissioned officer of cavalry, abolished In England in 1871, and not existing in the United States army.
  • CORODIO HABENDO
    The name of a writ to exact a corody of an abbey or religious house.
  • CORODIUM
    In old English law. A corody.
  • CORODY
    In old English law. A sum of money or allowance of meat drink, and clothing due to the crown from the abbey or other religious house* whereof it was founder, towards the sustentation of such one of its servants as is thought fit to receive it. It differs from a More...
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