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  • CO-SURETIES
    Joint sureties; two or more sureties to the same obligation.
  • COTA
    A cot or hut. Blount
  • COTAGIUM
    In old English law. A cottage.
  • COTARIUS
    In old English law. A cottager, who held In free socage, and paid a stated fine or rent in provisions or money, with some occasional personal services.
  • COTERELLI
    Anciently, a kind of peasantry who were outlaws; robbers. Blount
  • COTERELLUS
    In feudal law. A servile tenant, who held in mere villenage; his person, issue, and goods were disposable at the lord's pleasure.
  • COTERIE
    A fashionable association, or a knot of persons forming a particular circle. The origin of the term was purely commercial, signifying an association, in which each member furnished his part and bore his share in the profit and loss. Wharton.
  • COTESWOLD
    In old records. A place where there Is no wood.
  • COTLAND
    In old English law. Land held by a cottager, whether in socage or villenage. CowelL
  • COTSETHLA
    In old English law. The little seat or mansion belonging to a small farm.
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