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Color of law
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Color of lawPretense or semblance of legal right or authority
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Pretense
Also False Pretense. To represent something to be what it is not.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.
Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.
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Colonel
An officer in the army, next below a brigadier general, bears this title.
Colony
A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother country.
Color of title
That which in appearance is title, but which in reality is no title. Wright v. Mattison, 18 How. 56-59 (1855), cases. The resemblance or appearance of title. Whenever an instrument, by apt words of transfer from grantor to grantee, in form passes what purports to be the title, it gives color of title. Hall v. Law, 102 U.S. 466 (1880), Field, J.
Color officii
By color of office.
Color or office
Criminal law. A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office.
Colorable
Existing in aspect merely; not real; as, a colorable abridgment or alteration of a copyrighted production, imitation of a trademark, assignment, claim or defense, change of possession, title, qq. v.
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Colloquim
Pleading. A discourse a conversation or conference.
Collude
In the context of Fraud, to act together for a fraudulent purpose.
Collusion
Fraud. An agreement between two or more persons, to defraud a person of his rights by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law.
Colonel
An officer in the army, next below a brigadier general, bears this title.
Colony
A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother country.
Color of law
Color of title
That which in appearance is title, but which in reality is no title. Wright v. Mattison, 18 How. 56-59 (1855), cases. The resemblance or appearance of title. Whenever an instrument, by apt words of transfer from grantor to grantee, in form passes what purports to be the title, it gives color of title. Hall v. Law, 102 U.S. 466 (1880), Field, J.
Color officii
By color of office.
Color or office
Criminal law. A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office.
Colorable
Existing in aspect merely; not real; as, a colorable abridgment or alteration of a copyrighted production, imitation of a trademark, assignment, claim or defense, change of possession, title, qq. v.
Colt
An animal of the horse species, whether male or female, not more than four years old.
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Pretense
Also False Pretense. To represent something to be what it is not.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.
Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.
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Colonel
An officer in the army, next below a brigadier general, bears this title.
Colony
A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother country.
Color of title
That which in appearance is title, but which in reality is no title. Wright v. Mattison, 18 How. 56-59 (1855), cases. The resemblance or appearance of title. Whenever an instrument, by apt words of transfer from grantor to grantee, in form passes what purports to be the title, it gives color of title. Hall v. Law, 102 U.S. 466 (1880), Field, J.
Color officii
By color of office.
Color or office
Criminal law. A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office.
Colorable
Existing in aspect merely; not real; as, a colorable abridgment or alteration of a copyrighted production, imitation of a trademark, assignment, claim or defense, change of possession, title, qq. v.
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Colloquim
Pleading. A discourse a conversation or conference.
Collude
In the context of Fraud, to act together for a fraudulent purpose.
Collusion
Fraud. An agreement between two or more persons, to defraud a person of his rights by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law.
Colonel
An officer in the army, next below a brigadier general, bears this title.
Colony
A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother country.
Color of law
Color of title
That which in appearance is title, but which in reality is no title. Wright v. Mattison, 18 How. 56-59 (1855), cases. The resemblance or appearance of title. Whenever an instrument, by apt words of transfer from grantor to grantee, in form passes what purports to be the title, it gives color of title. Hall v. Law, 102 U.S. 466 (1880), Field, J.
Color officii
By color of office.
Color or office
Criminal law. A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office.
Colorable
Existing in aspect merely; not real; as, a colorable abridgment or alteration of a copyrighted production, imitation of a trademark, assignment, claim or defense, change of possession, title, qq. v.
Colt
An animal of the horse species, whether male or female, not more than four years old.
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