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  • CONDUCTOR OPERARUM
    In the civil law. A person who engages to perform a piece of work for another, at a stated price.
  • CONDUCTUS
    A thing hired.
  • CONE AND KEY
    In old English law. A woman at fourteen or fifteen years of age may take charge of her house and receive cone and hey; that is, keep the accounts and keys. Cowell. Said hy Lord Coke to be cover and keye, meaning that at that age a woman knew what More...
  • CONFARREATIO
    In Roman law. A sacrificial rite resorted to by marrying persons of high patrician or priestly degree, for the purpose of clothing the husband with the manus over his wife; the civil modes of effecting the same thing being coemptio, (formal,) and U8US mulieris, (Informal.) Brown.
  • CONFECTIO
    The making and completion of a written instrument 5 Coke, 1.
  • CONFEDERACY
    In criminal law. The association or banding together of two or more persons for the purpose of committing an act or furthering an enterprise which is forbidden by law, or which, though lawful in itself, becomes unlawful when made the object of the confederacy. State v. Crowley, 41 Wis. 284, More...
  • CONFEDERATION
    A league or compact for mutual support, particularly of princes, nations, or states. Such was the colonial government during the Revolution. -—Articles of Confederation. The name of the instrument embodying the compact made between the thirteen original states of the Union, before the adoption of the present constitution.
  • CONFERENCE
    A meeting of several persons for deliberation, for the interchange of opinion, or for the removal of differences or disputes. Thus, a meeting between a counsel and solicitor to advise on the cause of their client In the practice of legislative bodies, when the two houses cannot agree upon a More...
  • CONFESS
    To admit the truth of a charge or accusation. Usually spoken of charges of tortious or criminal conduct
  • CONFESSIO
    Lat A confession. Confessio in judicio, a confession made In or before a court. Confessio facta in jndieio ontni probations major est. A confession made in court is of greater effect than any proof. Jenk. Cent. 102.
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