Legal Term Dictionary

To finish; determine; to estop; to prevent.

To finish; determine; to estop; to prevent. Less...

Ended; determined; estopped; prevented from.

Ended; determined; estopped; prevented from. Less...

The end; the termination; the act of finishing or bringing to a close. The conclusion of a declaration or complaint is all that part which follows the statement of the plaintiffs cause of action. The conclusion of a plea is its final clause, In which the defendant either "puts himself More...

The end; the termination; the act of finishing or bringing to a close. The conclusion of a declaration or complaint is all that part which follows the statement of the plaintiffs cause of action. The conclusion of a plea is its final clause, In which the defendant either "puts himself npon the country" (where a material averment of the declaration is traversed and issue tendered) or offers a verification, which is proper where new matter is introduced. State v. Waters, 1 Mo. App. 7. In trial practice. It signifies making' the final or concluding address to the jury or the court This is, in general, the privilege of the party who has to sustain the burden of proof. Conclusion also denotes a bar or estoppel; the consequence, as respects the Individual, of a judgment upon the subject-matter, or of his confession of a matter or thing which the law thenceforth forbids him to deny. —Conclusion against the form of the statute. The proper form for the conclusion of an indictment for an offense created by statute is the technical phrase "against the form of the statute in such case made and provided;" or. in Latin, contra formam statuti. —Conclusion of fact. An inference drawn from the subordinate or evidentiary facts.— Conclusion of law. Within the rule that pleadings should contain only facts, and not conclusions of law, this means a proposition not arrived at by any process of natural reasoning from a fact or combination of facts stated, but by the application of the artificial rules of law to the tacts pleaded. Levins v. Rovegno, 71 Cal. 273, 12 Pac. 161; Iron Co. v. Vandervort 164 Pa. 572, 30 Atl. 491; Clark v. Railway Co., 28 Minn. 69, 9 N. W. 75.— Conclusion to the country. In pleading. The tender of an issue to be tried by jury* Steph. PL 230. Less...

Shutting up a matter; shutting out all further evidence; not admitting of explanation or contradiction; putting an end to inquiry; final; decisive. Hoadley v. Hammond, 63 Iowa, 599, 19 N. W. 794; Joslyn v. Rockwell, 59 Hun, 129, 13 N. Y. Supp. 311; Appeal of Bixler, 59 Cal. 550. —Conclusive More...

Shutting up a matter; shutting out all further evidence; not admitting of explanation or contradiction; putting an end to inquiry; final; decisive. Hoadley v. Hammond, 63 Iowa, 599, 19 N. W. 794; Joslyn v. Rockwell, 59 Hun, 129, 13 N. Y. Supp. 311; Appeal of Bixler, 59 Cal. 550. —Conclusive evidence. See EVIDENCE.— Conclusive presumption. See PRESUMPTION. Less...

In the old process of levying a fine of lands, the concord was an agreement between the parties (real or feigned) in which the deforciant (or he who keeps the other out of possession} acknowledges that the lands in question are the right of complainant; and, from the acknowledgment or More...

In the old process of levying a fine of lands, the concord was an agreement between the parties (real or feigned) in which the deforciant (or he who keeps the other out of possession} acknowledges that the lands in question are the right of complainant; and, from the acknowledgment or admission of right thus made, the party who levies the fine is called the "cog-nizor," and the person to whom it is levied the "cognlzee." 2 BL Comm. 350. The term also denotes an agreement between two persons, one of whom has a right of action against the other, settling what amends shall be made for the breach or wrong; a compromise or an accord. In old practioo. An agreement between two or more, upon a trespass committed, by way of amends or satisfaction for it Plowd. 5, 6, & Conoordarc legos loglbns est optimns interpretandi modus. To make laws agree with laws is the best mode of interpreting them. Halk. Max. 70. Less...

In public law. A compact or convention between two or more independent governments. An agreement made by a temporal sovereign with the pope, relative to ecclesiastical matters. In French law. A compromise effected by a bankrupt with his creditors, by virtue of which he engages to pay within a certain More...

In public law. A compact or convention between two or more independent governments. An agreement made by a temporal sovereign with the pope, relative to ecclesiastical matters. In French law. A compromise effected by a bankrupt with his creditors, by virtue of which he engages to pay within a certain time a certain proportion of his debts, and by which the creditors agree to discharge the whole of their claims in consideration of the same. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 558. Less...

Lat. In old English law. An agreement, or concord. Fleta, lib. 5, c 3, f 5. The agreement or unanimity of a Jury. CompeUere ad concordiam. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 9, | 2.

Lat. In old English law. An agreement, or concord. Fleta, lib. 5, c 3, f 5. The agreement or unanimity of a Jury. CompeUere ad concordiam. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 9, | 2. Less...

The harmony of the discordant canons. A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions made, by Gratian, an Italian monk, A. D. 1151; more commonly known by the name of "Decretum Qratiani." Conoordia parve res orescunt et opu-lentia lites. 4 Inst 74. Small means increase by concord and litigations by opulence.

The harmony of the discordant canons. A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions made, by Gratian, an Italian monk, A. D. 1151; more commonly known by the name of "Decretum Qratiani." Conoordia parve res orescunt et opu-lentia lites. 4 Inst 74. Small means increase by concord and litigations by opulence. Less...

A fold, pen, or place where cattle lie. Cowell.

A fold, pen, or place where cattle lie. Cowell. Less...

Lying together, as cattle.

Lying together, as cattle. Less...