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  • CONDOMINIA
    In the civil law. Co-ownerships or limited ownerships, such as emphyteusis, superficies, pignus, hypotheca, ususfructus, usus, and habitatio. These were more than mere jura in re aliend, being portion of the dominium itself, although they are commonly distinguished from the dominium strictly so called. Brown.
  • CONDONACION
    In Spanish law. The remission of a debt, either expressly or tacitly.
  • CONDONATION
    The conditional remission or forgiveness, by one of the married parties, of a matrimonial offense committed by the other, and which would constitute a cause of divorce; the condition being that the offense shall not be repeated. See Pain v. Pain, 37 Mo. App. 115; Betz v. Betz, 25 N. More...
  • CONDONE
    To make condonation of.
  • CONDUCT MONET
    In English practice. Money pafti to a witness who has been subpoenaed on a trial, sufficient to defray the reasonable expenses of going to, staying at, and returning from the place of trial. Lush, Pr. 460; Archb. New Pr. 639.
  • CONDUCTI ACTIO
    In the civil law. An action which the hirer (conductor) of a thing might have against the letter, (locator.) Inst 3, 25, pr. 2.
  • CONDUCTIO
    In the civil law. A hiring. Used generally in connection with the term locatio, a letting. Locatio et conductio, (sometimes united as a .compound word, "to-catio-conductio,") a letting and hiring. Inst. 3, 25; Bract, fol. 62, c. 28; Story, Bailm. §§ 8, 368.
  • CONDUCTOR
    In the civil law. A hirer.
  • 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.
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