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  • CORSNED
    In Saxon law. The morsel of execration. A species of ordeal in use among the Saxons, performed by eating a piece of bread over which the priest had pronounced a certain imprecation. If the accused ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent ; but if it stuck in his throat, More...
  • CORTES
    The name of the legislative assemblies, the parliament or congress, of Spain and Portugal.
  • CORTEX
    The bark of a tree; the outer covering of anything.
  • CORTIS
    A court or yard before a house. Blount
  • CORTULARIUM, OR CORTARIUM
    In old records. A yard adjoining a country farm.
  • CORVEE
    In French law. Gratuitous labor exacted from the villages or communities, especially for repairing roads, constructing bridges, etc. State v. Covington, 125 N. C. 641, 34 S. E. 272.
  • COSA JUZGADA
    In Spanish law. A cause or matter adjudged, (res judicata.) White, New Recop. b. 3, tit 8, note.
  • COSAS COMUNES
    In Spanish law. A term corresponding to the res communes of the Roman law, and descriptive of such things as are open to the equal and common enjoyment of all persons and not to be reduced to private ownership, such as the air, the sea, and the water of running More...
  • COSDUNA
    In feudal law. A custom or tribute.
  • COSEN, COZEN
    In old English law. To cheat "A cosening knave." 3 Leon. 171.
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