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Comity
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ComityThe doctrine requiring courts of one state to recognize the laws and judgments of competent courts of another state, in order to secure the reciprocal recognition by that foreign state of the laws and the judgments of the first state.
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Doctrine
A rule or principle or the law established through the repeated application of legal precedents.
State
1) Government. In its most enlarged sense, it signifies a self-sufficient body of persons united together in one community for the defence of their rights, and to do right and justice to foreigners. In this sense, the state means the whole people united into one body politic; and the state, and the people of the state, are equivalent expressions. 2) Condition of persons. This word has various acceptations. If we inquire into its origin, it will be found to come from the Latin status, which is derived from the verb stare, sto, whence has been made statio, which signifies the place where a person is located, stat, to fulfil the obligations which are imposed upon him.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Recognition
Contracts. An acknowledgment that something which has been done by one man in the name of another, was done by authority of the latter.
Foreign
That which belongs to another country; that which is strange.
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Comitatus
A county. Most of the states are divided into counties.
Comites
Persons who are attached to a public minister, are so called.
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Combination
1) A union of different things. A patent may be taken out for a new combination of existing machinery, or machines. 2) By combination is understood, in a bad sense, a union of men for the purpose of violating the law.
Combustio domorum
Burning of houses; arson.
Comes
1) Offices. A Count. An officer during the middle ages, who possessed civil and military authority. 2) Pleading. The word comes, venit, expresses the appearance of the defendant , in court.
Comitatus
A county. Most of the states are divided into counties.
Comites
Persons who are attached to a public minister, are so called.
Comity
Command
1) It signifies an order; an apprentice is bound to obey the lawful command of his master; a constable may command rioters to keep the peace. 2) He who commands another to do an unlawful act, is accessary to it. 3) Command is also equivalent to deputation or voluntary substitution; as, when a master employs one to do a thing, he is said to have Commanded him to do it; and he is responsible accordingly.
Commencement of a suit or action
The suit is considered as commenced from the issuing of the writ;
Commendatary
A person who holds a church living or presentment in commendam.
Commendation
The act of recommending, praising. A merchant who merely commends goods he offers for sale, does not by that act warrant them, unless there is some fraud: simplex commendatio non obligat.
Commendators
Ecclesiastical law. Secular persons upon whom ecclesiastical benefices are bestowed, because they were commended and instructed to their oversight: they are merely trustees.
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Doctrine
A rule or principle or the law established through the repeated application of legal precedents.
State
1) Government. In its most enlarged sense, it signifies a self-sufficient body of persons united together in one community for the defence of their rights, and to do right and justice to foreigners. In this sense, the state means the whole people united into one body politic; and the state, and the people of the state, are equivalent expressions. 2) Condition of persons. This word has various acceptations. If we inquire into its origin, it will be found to come from the Latin status, which is derived from the verb stare, sto, whence has been made statio, which signifies the place where a person is located, stat, to fulfil the obligations which are imposed upon him.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Recognition
Contracts. An acknowledgment that something which has been done by one man in the name of another, was done by authority of the latter.
Foreign
That which belongs to another country; that which is strange.
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Comitatus
A county. Most of the states are divided into counties.
Comites
Persons who are attached to a public minister, are so called.
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Combination
1) A union of different things. A patent may be taken out for a new combination of existing machinery, or machines. 2) By combination is understood, in a bad sense, a union of men for the purpose of violating the law.
Combustio domorum
Burning of houses; arson.
Comes
1) Offices. A Count. An officer during the middle ages, who possessed civil and military authority. 2) Pleading. The word comes, venit, expresses the appearance of the defendant , in court.
Comitatus
A county. Most of the states are divided into counties.
Comites
Persons who are attached to a public minister, are so called.
Comity
Command
1) It signifies an order; an apprentice is bound to obey the lawful command of his master; a constable may command rioters to keep the peace. 2) He who commands another to do an unlawful act, is accessary to it. 3) Command is also equivalent to deputation or voluntary substitution; as, when a master employs one to do a thing, he is said to have Commanded him to do it; and he is responsible accordingly.
Commencement of a suit or action
The suit is considered as commenced from the issuing of the writ;
Commendatary
A person who holds a church living or presentment in commendam.
Commendation
The act of recommending, praising. A merchant who merely commends goods he offers for sale, does not by that act warrant them, unless there is some fraud: simplex commendatio non obligat.
Commendators
Ecclesiastical law. Secular persons upon whom ecclesiastical benefices are bestowed, because they were commended and instructed to their oversight: they are merely trustees.
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