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  • CONGEABLE
    L. Fr. Lawful; permissible; allowable. "Disseisin is properly where a man entereth into any lands or tenements where his entry is not congeable, and putteth out him that hath the freehold." Litt. § 279. See Ricard v. Williams, 7 Wheat. 107, 5 L. Ed. 398.
  • CONGILDONES
    In Saxon law. Fellow-members of a guild.
  • CONGIUS
    An ancient measure containing about a gallon and a pint. Cowell.
  • CONGREGATION
    An assembly or society of persons who together constitute the principal supporters of a particular parish, or habitually meet at the same church for religious exercises. Robertson v. Bullions, 9 Barb. (N. Y.) 67; Runkel v. Winemiller, 4 Har. & McH. (Md.) 452, 1 Am. Dec. 411; In re Walker, More...
  • CONGRESS
    In international law. An assembly of envoys, commissioners, deputies, etc., from different sovereignties who meet to concert measures for their common good, or to adjust their mutual concerns. In American law. The name of the legislative assembly of the United States, composed of the senate and house of represents* tives, More...
  • CONGRESSUS
    The extreme practical test of the truth of a charge of impotence brought against a husband by a wife. It is now disused. Causes Celebres, 6, 183.
  • CONJECTIO
    In the civil law of evidence. A throwing together. Presumption; the putting of things together, with the inference drawn therefrom.
  • CONJECTIO CAUSAE
    In the civil law. A statement of the case. A brief synopsis of the case given by the advocate te the judge in opening the trial. Calvin.
  • CONJECTURE
    A slight degree of credence, arising from evidence too weak or too remote to cause belief. Weed v. Scofield, 73 Conn. 670, 49 Ati. 22. Supposition or surmise. The idea of a fact, suggested by another fact; as a possible cause, concomitant, or result Burrill, Circ. Ev. 27.
  • CONJOINTS
    Persons married to each other. Story, Confl. Laws, f 71.
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