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Co-executor
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Co-executorOne who is executor of a will in company with another.
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Executor
A person specifically appointed by a testator to administer the will ensuring that final wishes are respected (i.e. that the will is properly "executed"). An executor is a personal representative.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Company
An association of a number of individuals for the purpose of carrying on some legitimate business.
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Co-defendant
One who is made defendant in an action with another person.
Codex
Literally, a volume or roll. It is particularly applied to the volume of the civil law, collected by the emperor Justinian, from all pleas and answers of the ancient lawyers, which were in loose scrolls or sheets of parchment. These he compiled into a book which goes by the name of Codex.
Codicil
An amendment to an existing will. Does not mean that the will is totally changed; just to the extent of the codicil.
Coerce
To influence action against someone's will, usually by threat.
Coercion
Compulsion; constraint; duress. Implied or legal coercion is when a person, under legal subjection to another, is induced to do an act involuntarily.
Co-executor
Cognati
Cognates. This term occurs frequently in the Roman civil law, and denotes collateral heirs through females
Cognation
Civil law. Signifies generally the kindred which exists between two persons who are united by ties of blood or family, or both.
Cognisance
1) Pleading. Where the defendant in an action of replevin acknowledges the taking of the distress, and insists that such taking was legal, not because he himself had a right to distrain on his own account, but because he made the distress by the command of another, who had a right to distrain on the goods which are the subject of the suit. 2) practice. Sometimes signifies jurisdiction and juudicial power, an sometimes the hearing of a matter judicially.
Cognisance of pleas
English law. A privilege granted by the king to a city or town, to hold pleas within the same; and when any one is impleaded in the courts at Westminster, the owner of the franchise may demand cognisance of the plea.
Cognisee
He to whom a fine of lands, &c. is acknowledged.
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Executor
A person specifically appointed by a testator to administer the will ensuring that final wishes are respected (i.e. that the will is properly "executed"). An executor is a personal representative.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Company
An association of a number of individuals for the purpose of carrying on some legitimate business.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Co-defendant
One who is made defendant in an action with another person.
Codex
Literally, a volume or roll. It is particularly applied to the volume of the civil law, collected by the emperor Justinian, from all pleas and answers of the ancient lawyers, which were in loose scrolls or sheets of parchment. These he compiled into a book which goes by the name of Codex.
Codicil
An amendment to an existing will. Does not mean that the will is totally changed; just to the extent of the codicil.
Coerce
To influence action against someone's will, usually by threat.
Coercion
Compulsion; constraint; duress. Implied or legal coercion is when a person, under legal subjection to another, is induced to do an act involuntarily.
Co-executor
Cognati
Cognates. This term occurs frequently in the Roman civil law, and denotes collateral heirs through females
Cognation
Civil law. Signifies generally the kindred which exists between two persons who are united by ties of blood or family, or both.
Cognisance
1) Pleading. Where the defendant in an action of replevin acknowledges the taking of the distress, and insists that such taking was legal, not because he himself had a right to distrain on his own account, but because he made the distress by the command of another, who had a right to distrain on the goods which are the subject of the suit. 2) practice. Sometimes signifies jurisdiction and juudicial power, an sometimes the hearing of a matter judicially.
Cognisance of pleas
English law. A privilege granted by the king to a city or town, to hold pleas within the same; and when any one is impleaded in the courts at Westminster, the owner of the franchise may demand cognisance of the plea.
Cognisee
He to whom a fine of lands, &c. is acknowledged.
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