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  • CONTROLMENT
    In old English law. The controlling or checking of another officer's account; the keeping of a counter-roll.
  • CONTROVER
    In old English law. An inventer or deviser of false news. 2 Inst 227.
  • CONTROVERSY
    A litigated question; adversary proceeding in a court of law; a civil action or suit, either at law or in equity. Barber v. Kennedy, 18 Minn. 216 (Gil. 196); State v. Guinotte, 156 Mo. 513, 57 S. W. 281, 50 L. R. A. 787. It differs from "case." which includes More...
  • CONTROVERT
    To dispute; to deny; to oppose or contest; to take issue on. Buggy Co. v. Patt, 73 Iowa, 485, 35 N. W. 587; Swenson v. Kleinschmidt, 10 Mont. 473, 26 Pac. 198.
  • CONTUBERNIUM
    In Roman law. The marriage of slaves; a permitted cohabitation.
  • CONTUMACE CAPIENDO
    In English law. Excommunication in all cases of contempt in the spiritual courts is discontinued by 53 Geo. III. c. 127, § 2> and in lieu thereof, where a lawful citation or sentence has not been obeyed, the judge shall have power, after a certain period, to pronounce spch person More...
  • CONTUMACY
    The refusal or intentional omission of a person who has been duly cited before a court to appear and defend the charge laid against him, or, if he is duly before the court to obey some lawful order or direction made in the cause. In the former case It is More...
  • CONTUMAX
    One accused of a crime who refuses to appear and answer to the charge. An outlaw.
  • CONTUSION
    In medical jurisprudence. A bruise; an injury to any external part of the body by the impact of a fall or the blow of a blunt Instrument, without laceration of the flesh, and either with or without a tearing of the skin, but in the former case it is more More...
  • CONTUTOR
    Lat In the civil law. A co-tutor, or co-guardian. Inst. 1, 24, I.
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