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  • COMPASS, THE MARINER'S
    An instrument used by mariners to point out the course of a ship at sea. It consists of a magnetized steel bar called the "needle," attached to the under side of a card, upon which are drawn the points of the compass, and supported by a fine piu, upon which More...
  • COMPASSING
    Imagining or contriving, or plotting. In English law, "compassing the king's death" is treason. 4. RI. Comm. 76.
  • COMPATERNITAS
    In the canon law. A kind of spiritual relationship contracted by baptism.
  • COMPATERNITY
    Spiritual affinity, contracted by sponsorship in baptism.
  • COMPATIBILITY
    Such relation and consistency between the duties of two offices that they may be held and filled by one person.
  • COMPEAR
    In Scotch law. To appear.
  • COMPEARANCE
    In Scotch practice. Appearance; an appearance made for a defendant; an appearance by counsel. Bell.
  • COMPELLATIVUS
    An adversary or accuser. Compendia snnt dispendia. Co. Litt. 306. Abbreviations are detriments.
  • COMPENDIUM
    An abridgment, synopsis, or digest.
  • COMPENSACION
    In Spanish law. Compensation; set-off. The extinction of a defyt by another debt of equal dignity.
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