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  • COTSETHLAND
    The seat of a cottage with the land belonging to it Spelman.
  • COTSETUS
    A cottager or cottage-holder who held by servile tenure and was bound to do the work of the lord. Cowell.
  • COTTAGE
    In English law. A small dwelling-house that has no land belonging to it Shep. Touch. 94; Emerton v. Selby, 2 Ld. Raym. 1015; Scholes v. Uargreaves, 5 Term, 46; Hubbard v. Hubbard, 15 Adol. & E. (N. S.) 240; Gibson v. Brockway, 8 N. H. 470, 31 Am. Dec 200.
  • COTTIER TENANCY
    A species of tenancy in Ireland, constituted by an agreement in writing, and subject to the following terms: That the tenement consist of a dwelling-house with not more than half an acre of land; at a rental not exceeding £5 a year; the tenancy to be for not more than More...
  • COTTON NOTES
    Receipts given for each bale of cotton received on storage by a public warehouse. Fourth Nat. Bank v. St. Louis Cotton Compress Co., 11 Mo. App 337.
  • COTUCA
    Coat armor.
  • COTUCHANS
    A term used In Domesday for peasants, boors, husbandmen.
  • COUCHANT
    Lying down; squatting. Couch ant and levant (lying down and rising up) is a term applied to animals trespassing on the land of one other than their owner, for one night or longer. 3 Bl. Comm. 0.
  • COUCHER, OR COURCHER
    A factor who continues abroad for traffic, (37 Edw. HI. c. 16;) also the general book wherein any corporation, etc., register their acts, (3 A 4 Edw. VI. c. 10.)
  • COUNCIL
    An assembly of persons for the purpose of concerting measures of state or municipal policy; hence called "councillors." In American law. The legislative body in the government of cities or boroughs. An advisory body selected to aid the executive; particularly in the colonial period (and at present in some of More...
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