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  • COMPTER
    In Scotch law. An accounting party.
  • COMPTROLLER
    A public officer of a state or municipal corporation, charged with certain duties in relation to the fiscal affairs of the same, principally to examine and audit the accounts of collectors of the public money, to keep records, and report the financial situation from time to time. There are also More...
  • COMPULSION
    Constraint; objective necessity. Forcible inducement to the commission of an act Navigation Co. v. Brown, 100 Pa. 346; U. S. v. Kimball (C. C.) 117 Fed. 163; Gates v. Hester, 81 Ala. 357, 1 South. 848.
  • COMPULSORY
    n. In ecclesiastical procedure, a compulsory is a kind of writ to compel the attendance of a witness, to undergo examination. Philllm. Ecc. Law, 1258.
  • COMPULSORY
    adj. Involuntary; forced; coerced by legal process or by force of statute. —Compulsory arbitration. That which takes place where the consent of one of the parties is enforced by statutory provisions. Wood v. Seattle, 23 Wash. 1, 62 Pac 135, 52 Lu R. A. 369.—Compulsory nonsuit. An involuntary nonsuit. See More...
  • COMPURGATOR
    One of several neighbors of a person accused of a crime, or charged as a defendant in a civil action, who , appeared and swore that they believed him on his oath. 3 Bl. Comm. 341.
  • COMPUTO
    Lat. To compute, reckon, or account. Used In the phrases insimul computassent, "they reckoned together," (see IKSIMTTL;) plene computarit, "he has fully accounted," (see PLENE;) quod computet, "that he account" (see QUOD COMPUTET.)
  • COMPUTATION
    The act of computing, numbering, reckoning, or estimating. The account or estimation of time by rule of law, as distinguished from any arbitrary construction of the parties. CowelL
  • COMPUTUS
    A writ to compel a guardian, bailiff, receiver, or accountant to yield up his accounts. It is founded on the statute Westm. 2, c 12; Reg. Orig. 135.
  • COMTE
    Fr. A count or earl. In the ancient French law, the comte was an officer having jurisdiction over a particular district or territory, with functions partly military and partly judicial.
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