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  • COLLATIONE HEREMITAGII
    In old English law. A writ whereby the king conferred the keeping of an hermitage upon a clerk. Reg. Orig. 303, 308.
  • COLLECT
    To gather together; to bring scattered things (assets, accounts, articles of property) into one mass or fund. To collect a debt or claim is to obtain payment or liquidation of it either by personal solicitation or legal proceedings. White v. Case, 13 Wend. (N. X.) 544; Ryan v. Tudor, 31 More...
  • COLLEGA
    In the civil law. One invested with joint authority. A colleague; an associate.
  • COLLEGATARIUS
    Lat. In the civil law. A co-legatee. Inst 2, 20, 8.
  • COLLEGATORY
    A co-legatee; a person who has a legacy left to him in common with other persons.
  • COLLEGE
    An organized assembly or collection of persons, established by law, and empowered to co-operate for the performance of some special function or for the promotion of some common object which may be educational, political, ecclesiastical, or scientific in its character. The assemblage of the cardinals at Rome is called a More...
  • COLLEGIA
    In the civil law. The guild of a trade.
  • COLLEGIALITER
    In a corporate capacity. 2 Kent, Comm. 296.
  • COLLEGIATE CHUBCH
    In English ecclesiastical law. A church built and endowed for a society or body corporate of a dean or other president, and secular priests, as canons or prebendaries in the said church; such as the churches of Westminster, Windsor, and others. CowelL
  • COLLEGIUM
    Lat In the civil law. A word having various meanings; e. p., an assembly, society, or company; a body of bishops; an army; a class of men. But the principal idea of the word was that of an association of individuals of the same rank and station, or united for More...
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