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  • CONCESSIO
    In old English law. A grant One of the old common assurances, or forms of conveyance. Concessio per regem fieri debet de eer-titndine. 9 Coke, 46. A grant by the king ought to be made from certainty. Concessio versus conoedentem latam interpretationom habere debet. A grant ought to have a More...
  • CONCESSION
    A grant; ordinarily applied to the grant of specific privileges by a government; French and Spanish grants in Louisiana. See Western M. & M. Co. v. Pey-tona Coal Co., 8 W. Va. 446.
  • CONCESSIT SOLVERE
    (He granted and agreed to pay.) In English law. An action of debt upon a simple contract. It lies by custom in the mayor's court, London, and Bristol city court
  • CONCESSOR
    In old English law. A grantor.
  • CONCESSUM
    Accorded;conceded. This term, frequently used in the old reports, signifies that the court admitted or assented to a point or proposition made on the argument
  • CONCESSUS
    A grantee.
  • CONCILIABULUM
    A council house.
  • CONCILIATION
    In French law. The formality to which intending litigants are subjected in cases brought before the juge de pate. The judge convenes the parties and endeavors to reconcile them. Should he not succeed, the case proceeds. In criminal and commercial cases, the preliminary of conciliation does not take place. Arg. More...
  • CONCILIUM
    Lat. A council. Also argument in a cause, or the sitting of the court to hear argument; a day allowed to a defendant to present his argument; an imparlance. —Concilium ordinarinm. In Anglo-Norman times. An executive and residuary judicial committee of the Aula Regis, (q. t?.)—Coneilinm regis. An ancient English More...
  • CONCIONATOR
    In old records. A common council man; a freeman called to a legislative hall or assembly. Cowell.
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