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  • CONSIGNOR
    One who sends or makes a consignment A shipper of goods. Consula multorum quseruntur In mag-mis. 4 Inst 1. The counsels of many are required in great things.
  • CONSILIARIUS
    In the civil law. A counsellor, as distinguished from a pleader or advocate. An assistant judge. One who participates In the decisions. Du Cange.
  • CONSILIUM
    A day appointed to hear the counsel of both parties. A case set down for argument. It is commonly used for the day appointed for the argument of a demurrer, or errors assigned. 1 Tidd, Pr. 438.
  • CONSIMILI CASU
    In practice. A writ of entry, framed under the provisions of the statute Westminster 2, (18 Edw. I.,) c. 24, which lay for the benefit of the reversioner, where a tenant by the curtesy aliened in fee or for life.
  • CONSISTING
    Being composed or made up of. This word is not synonymous with "Including;" for the latter, when used in connection with a number of specified objects, always implies that there may be others which are not mentioned. Farlsh v. Cook, 6 Mo. App. 881.
  • CONSISTORIUM
    The state council of the Roman emperors. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 158.
  • CONSISTORY
    In ecclesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the pope,
  • CONSISTORY COURTS
    Courts held by diocesan bishops within their several cathedrals, for the trial of ecclesiastical causes arising within their respective dioceses. The bishop's chancellor, or his commissary, Is the judge; and from his sentence an appeal lies to the archbishop. Mozley & Whitley.
  • CONSOBRINI
    In the civil law. Cous-lns-german, In general; brothers' and sisters' children, considered in their relation to each other.
  • CONSOCIATIO
    Lat An association, fellowship, or partnership. Applied by some of the older writers to a corporation, and even to a nation considered as a body politic Thomas v. Dakln, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 104.
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