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  • CONTRAMANDATUM
    A lawful excuse, which a defendant in a suit by attorney alleges for himself to show that the plaintiff has no cause of complaint. Blount
  • CONTRAPLACITUM
    In old English law. A counter-plea. Townsh. PI. 61.
  • CONTRAPOSITIO
    In old English law. A plea or answer. Blount A counter-position.
  • CONTRARIENTS
    This word was used in the time of Edw. II. to signify those who were opposed to the government but were neither rebels nor traitors. Jacob. Contrariorum eontraria est ratio. Hob. 344. The reason of contrary things is contrary.
  • CONTRAROTULATOR
    A controller. One whose business it was to observe the money which the collectors had gathered for the use of the king or the people. CowelL —Contrarotnlator pipes. An officer of the exchequer that writeth out summons twice every year, to the sheriffs, to levy the rents and debts of More...
  • CONTRAT
    In French law. Contracts are of the following varieties: (1) Bilateral, or synaUagmatiquc, where each party Is bound to the other to do what is just and proper; or 2) unilateral, where the one side only is bound; or (3) eonvmutatif, where one does to the other something which is More...
  • CONTRATALLIA
    In old English law. A counter-tally. A term used in the exchequer. Mem. in Scacc. M. 26 Edw. 1.
  • CONTRATENERE
    To hold against; to withhold. Whishaw.
  • CONTRAVENING EQUITY
    A right or equity, in another person, which is inconsistent with and opposed to the equity sought to be enforced or recognised.
  • CONTRAVENTION
    In French law. An act which violates the law, a treaty, or an agreement which the party has made. That infraction of the law punished by a fine which does not exceed fifteen francs and by an imprisonment not exceeding three days. Pen. Code, 1. In Scotch law. The act More...
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