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Congregation






Congregation

A society of a number of persons who compose an ecclesiastical body.

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Society
A society is a number of persons united together by mutual consent, in order to deliberate, determine, and act jointly for some common purpose.

Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.

Body
A person.



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Conge'
A French word which signifies permission, and is understood in that sense in law.

Congeable
English law. This word is nearly obsolete. It is derived from the French conge', permission, leave; it signifies that a thing is lawful or lawfully done, or done with permission; as entry congeable, and the like.

Congress
Med. juris. This name was anciently given in France, England, and other countries, to the-indecent intercourse between married persons, in the presence of witnesses appointed by the courts, in cases when the husband or wife was charged by the other with impotence.



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Conformed copy
An exact copy of a document on which has been written things that could not or were not copied, i.e., a written signature is replaced on the conformed copy with a notation that it was signed by the parties.

Confrontation
Crim. law, practice. The act by which a witness is brought in the presence of the accused, so that the latter may object to him, if he can, and the former may know and identify the accused, and maintain the truth in his presence. No man can be a witness unless confronted with the accused, except by consent.

Confusion
The concurrence of two qualities in the same subject, which mutually destroy each other.

Conge'
A French word which signifies permission, and is understood in that sense in law.

Congeable
English law. This word is nearly obsolete. It is derived from the French conge', permission, leave; it signifies that a thing is lawful or lawfully done, or done with permission; as entry congeable, and the like.

Congregation

Congress
Med. juris. This name was anciently given in France, England, and other countries, to the-indecent intercourse between married persons, in the presence of witnesses appointed by the courts, in cases when the husband or wife was charged by the other with impotence.

Conjecture
Conjectures are ideas or notions founded on probabilities without any demonstration of their truth.

Conjoints
Persons married to each other.

Conjugal
Matrimonial; belonging, to marriage as, conjugal rights, or the rights which belong to the husband or wife as such.

Conjuration
A swearing together. It signifies a plot, bargain, or compact made by a number of persons under oath, to do some public harm.

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