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Concord






Concord

Estates, conveyances, practice. An agreement or supposed agreement between the parties in levying a fine of lands, in which the deforciant (or he who keeps the other out of possession,) acknowledges that the lands in question, are the right of the complainant.

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Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.

Agreement
A verbal or written resolution of disputes.

Parties
Contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement.

Fine
"1) A sum of money, which, by judgment of a competent jurisdiction, is required to be paid for the punishment of an offence. 2) The amount paid by the tenant, on his entrance, to the lord. 3) A special kind of conveyance.

Question
1) Punishment, crm. law. A means sometimes employed, in some countries, by means of torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accomplices, or to acknowledge their crimes. 2) Evidence. An interrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. 3) Practice. A point on which the parties are not agreed, and which is submitted to the decision of a judge and jury.

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.

Complainant
One who makes a complaint. A plaintiff in a suit in chancery is so called.



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Conceal
The second step in committing a Fraud. To hide from view.

Concessi
Conveyancing. This is a Latin word, signifying, I have granted.

Concessimus
Latin word, which signifies, we have granted.

Concession
A grant.

Concessor
A grantor; one who makes a concession to another.

Conciliation
The attempt to establish an agreement between the divorcing spouses concerning the children and any other areas in which they do not agree.

Concilium
day allowed to a defendant to make his defence.

Concilium regis
The name of a tribunal which existed in England during the times of Edward I. and Edward H., composed of the judges and sages of the law. To them were referred cases of great difficulty.

Conclave
An assembly of cardinals for the purpose of electing a pope; the place where the assembly is held is also called a conclave.

Conclusion
1) Practice. Making the last argument or address to the court or jury. 2) remedies. An estoppel; a bar; the act of a man by which he has confessed a matter or thing which he can no longer deny.

Conclusion to the country
Pleading. The tender of an issue to be tried by a jury is called the conclusion to the country.

Conclusive
What puts an end to a thing. A conclusive presumption of law, is one which cannot be contradicted even by direct and positive proof.

Conclusive evidence
That which cannot be contradicted by any other evidence.

Conclusum
International law. The form of an acceptance or conclusion of a treaty.

Concordate
A convention; a pact; an agreement.

Concubinage
1) Sometimes it means a species of marriage which took place among the ancients. 2) It means the act or practice of cobabiting as man and woman, in sexual commerce, without the authority of law, or a legal marriage.

Concubine
A woman who cohabits with a man as his wife, without being married.

Concurrence
French law. The equality of rights, or privilege which several persons-have over the same thing.

Concurrent
Running together; having the same authority; thus we say a concurrent consideration occurs in the case of mutual promises; such and such a court have concurrent jurisdiction; that is, each has the same jurisdiction.

Concurrent jurisdiction
The jurisdiction of two or more courts, each authorized to deal with the same subject matter.

Concurrent sentence
Sentence is being served at the same time as another sentence(s).

Concurrent sentences
Sentences for more than one crime that are to be served at the same time, rather than one after the other.

Concursus
The rule that after a shipowner's limitation fund has been duly constituted, other legal proceedings in respect of the casualty concerned must be stayed and all claims resulting from the casualty must be filed against the limitation fund and disposed of in a single "limitation proceeding

Concussion
Civil law. The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to give something of value.



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Conclusion
1) Practice. Making the last argument or address to the court or jury. 2) remedies. An estoppel; a bar; the act of a man by which he has confessed a matter or thing which he can no longer deny.

Conclusion to the country
Pleading. The tender of an issue to be tried by a jury is called the conclusion to the country.

Conclusive
What puts an end to a thing. A conclusive presumption of law, is one which cannot be contradicted even by direct and positive proof.

Conclusive evidence
That which cannot be contradicted by any other evidence.

Conclusum
International law. The form of an acceptance or conclusion of a treaty.

Concord

Concordate
A convention; a pact; an agreement.

Concubinage
1) Sometimes it means a species of marriage which took place among the ancients. 2) It means the act or practice of cobabiting as man and woman, in sexual commerce, without the authority of law, or a legal marriage.

Concubine
A woman who cohabits with a man as his wife, without being married.

Concurrence
French law. The equality of rights, or privilege which several persons-have over the same thing.

Concurrent
Running together; having the same authority; thus we say a concurrent consideration occurs in the case of mutual promises; such and such a court have concurrent jurisdiction; that is, each has the same jurisdiction.

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