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  • COSDUNA
    In feudal law. A custom or tribute.
  • COSEN, COZEN
    In old English law. To cheat "A cosening knave." 3 Leon. 171.
  • COSENAGE
    In old English law. Kindred; cousinship. Also a writ that lay for the heir where the tresoil, i. e., the father of the besail, or great-grandfather, was seised of lands in fee at his death, and a stranger entered upon the land and abated. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 221.
  • COSENING
    In old English law. An offense, mentioned in the old books, where anything was done deceitfully, whether belonging to contracts or not which could not be properly termed by any special name. The same as the steUionatus of the civil law. Cowell.
  • COSHERING
    In old- English law. A feudal prerogative or custom for lords to He and feast themselves at their tenants' houses. Cowell.
  • COSMUS
    Clean. Blount.
  • COSS
    A term used by Europeans in India to denote a road-measure of about two miles, but differing in different parts. Wharton.
  • COST
    The cost of an article purchased for exportation is the price paid, with all in* cidental charges paid at the place of exportation. Goodwin v. U. S., 2 Wash. C. O. 493, Fed. Cas. No. 5,554. Cost price is that actually paid for goods. Buck v. Burk, 18 N. Y. More...
  • COST-BOOK
    A book in which a number of adventurers who have obtained permission to work a lode, and have agreed to share the enterprise in certain proportions, enter the agreement and from time to time the receipts and expenditures of the mine, the names of the shareholders, their respective accounts with More...
  • CO-STIPULATOR
    A Joint promisor.
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