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  • COVER INTO
    The phrase "covered into the treasury," as used in acts of congress and the practice of the United States treasury department, means that money has actually been paid into the treasury in the regular manner, as distinguished from merely depositing it with the treasurer. U. S. v. Johnston, 124 U. More...
  • COVERT
    Covered, protected, sheltered. A pound covert is one that is close or covered over, as distinguished from pound overt, which is open overhead. Co. Litt 47b; 3 BL Comm. 12. A feme covert is so called, as being under the wing, protection, or cover of her husband. 1 Bl. Comm. More...
  • COVERTURE
    The condition or state of a married woman. Sometimes used elliptic-ally to describe the legal disability arising from a state of coverture. Osborn v. Horine„ 19 111. 124; Roberts v. Lund, 45 Vt. 86.'
  • COVIN
    A secret conspiracy or agreement between two or more persons to injure or defraud another. Mix v. Muzzy, 28 Conn. 191; Anderson v. Oscamp 465.
  • COVINOUS
    Deceitful; fraudulent; having the nature of, or tainted by, covin.
  • COWARDICE
    Pusillanimity; fear; misbehavior through fear in relation to some duty to be performed before an enemy-O'Brien, Ct. M. 142; Coil v. State, 62 Neb. 15, 86 N. W. 925.
  • CRAFT
    1. A general term, now commonly applied to all kinds of sailing vessels, though formerly restricted to the smaller vessels; Tbe Wenonah, 21 Grat. (Va:) 007; Reed v. Ingham, 3 El. & B. 898. 2. A trade or occupation of the sort requiring skill and training, particularly manual sklH combined More...
  • CRANAGE
    A liberty to. use a crane for drawing up goods and wares of burden from ships and vessels, at any creek of the sea, or wharf, unto the land, and to make a. profit of doing so. It also signifies the money paid and taken for the service. Tomlins.
  • CRANK
    A term vulgarly applied to a person of eccentric,, ill-regulated, and unpractical mental habits; a person half-crazed; a monomaniac; not necessarily equivalent to "insane person," "lunatic," or any other term descriptive of complete mental derangement, and not carrying any implication of homicidal mania. Walker v. Tribune Co. (C. C.) 29 More...
  • CRASSUS
    Large; gross; excessive; extreme. Cra&tta ignore ntia, gross ignorance. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 22, § 1& —Crassa neglig-entia. ' Gross neglect; ab-' sence of ordinary care and diligence. Hun v. Cary, 82 N. Y. 72, 37 Am. Rep. 540.
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