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  • CORRECTOR OF THE STAPLE
    In old English law. A clerk belonging to the staple, to write and record the bargains of merchants there made.
  • CORREGIDOR
    In Spanish law. A magistrate who took cognizance of various misdemeanors, and of civil matters. 2 White, New Recop. 53.
  • CORREI
    Lat In the civil law. Co-stipulators; joint stipulators. —Correi eredendi. In the civil and Scotch law. Joint creditors; creditors in solido. Poth. Obi. pt. 2, c. 4, art 3, § 11.—Correi debendi. In Scotch law. Two or more persons bound as principal debtors to another. Ersk. Inst 3, 3,
  • CORRELATIVE
    Having a mutual or reciprocal relation, in such sense that the existence of one necessarily implies the existence of the other. Father and son are correlative terms. Right and duty are correlative terms.
  • CORRESPONDENCE
    Interchange of written communications. The* letters written by a person and the answers written by the one to whom they are addressed.
  • CORROBORATE
    To strengthen; to add weight or credibility to a thing by additional and confirming facts or evidence. Still v. State (Tex. Cr. R.) 50 S. W. 355; State v. Hicks, 6 S. D. 825, 80 N. W. 66; Schefter v. Hatch, 70 Hun, 507, 25 N. Y. Supp. 240. The More...
  • CORRUPTION
    Illegality; a vicious and fraudulent intention to evade the prohibitions of the law. The act of an ofilclal or fiduciary person who unlawfully and wrongfully uses his station or character to procure some benefit for himself or for another person, contrary to duty and the rights of others. U. S. More...
  • CORRUPTION OF BLOOD
    In English law. This was the consequence of attainder. It meant that the attainted person could neither inherit lands or other hereditaments from his 'ancestor, nor retain those he already had, nor transmit them by descent to any heir, because his blood was considered in law to be corrupted. Avery More...
  • CORSELET
    Ancient armor which covered the body.
  • CORSE-PRESENT
    A mortuary, thus termed because, when a mortuary became due on the death of a man, the best or second-best beast was, according to custom, offered or presented to the priest, and carried with the corpse. In Wales a corse-present was due upon the death of a clergyman to the More...
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