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Conquest
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Conquest1) Feudal law. This term was used by the feudists to signify purchase. 2) French law. The name given to every acquisition which the husband and wife, jointly or severally, make during the conjugal community.
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Feudal
A term applied to whatever concerned a feud; as feudal law: feudal rights.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Term
1) Construction. Word; expression speech. 2) Contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express terms resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement; as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 3) Estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time, as by surrender, forfeiture and the like. 4) Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court.
Purchase
In its most enlarged and technical sense, purchase signifies the lawful acquisition of real estate by any means whatever, except descent. It is thus defined by Littleton, section 12. "Purchase is called the possession of lands or tenements that a man hath by his own deed or agreement, unto which possession he cometh, not by title of descent from any of his ancestors or cousins, but by his own deed."
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Husband
Maritime law. The name of an agent who is authorized to make the necessary repairs to a ship, and to act in relation to the ship, generally, for the owner. He is usually called ship's hushand.
Conjugal
Matrimonial; belonging, to marriage as, conjugal rights, or the rights which belong to the husband or wife as such.
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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.
Connecting factors
Contracts. In the conflict of law, connecting factors, or contacts, are facts which tend to connect a transaction or occurrence with a particular law or jurisdiction (e.g. the domicile, residence, nationality or place of incorporation of the parties; the place(s) of conclusion or performance of the contract; the place(s) where the tort or delict was committed or where its harm was felt; the flag or country of registry of the ship; the shipowner's base of operations, etc.).
Conquest
Conregation
An assemblage or union of persons for a religious purpose. Runkel v. Winemiller, 4 H, & M'H, 452 (1799). A voluntary association of individuals or families, united for the purpose of having a common place of worship, and to provide a proper teacher to instruct them in religious doctrines and duties, and to administer the ordinance.
Consanguinei
Blood relations.
Consanguinity
Latin consanguineus: con, together; sanguis, blood. The connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor.
Conscience
The moral sense, or that capacity of our mental constitution, by which we irresistibly feel the difference between right and wrong.
Consecutive sentences
Successive sentences, one beginning at the expiration of another, imposed against a person convicted of two or more violations.
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Feudal
A term applied to whatever concerned a feud; as feudal law: feudal rights.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Term
1) Construction. Word; expression speech. 2) Contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express terms resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement; as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 3) Estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time, as by surrender, forfeiture and the like. 4) Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court.
Purchase
In its most enlarged and technical sense, purchase signifies the lawful acquisition of real estate by any means whatever, except descent. It is thus defined by Littleton, section 12. "Purchase is called the possession of lands or tenements that a man hath by his own deed or agreement, unto which possession he cometh, not by title of descent from any of his ancestors or cousins, but by his own deed."
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Husband
Maritime law. The name of an agent who is authorized to make the necessary repairs to a ship, and to act in relation to the ship, generally, for the owner. He is usually called ship's hushand.
Conjugal
Matrimonial; belonging, to marriage as, conjugal rights, or the rights which belong to the husband or wife as such.
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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.
Connecting factors
Contracts. In the conflict of law, connecting factors, or contacts, are facts which tend to connect a transaction or occurrence with a particular law or jurisdiction (e.g. the domicile, residence, nationality or place of incorporation of the parties; the place(s) of conclusion or performance of the contract; the place(s) where the tort or delict was committed or where its harm was felt; the flag or country of registry of the ship; the shipowner's base of operations, etc.).
Conquest
Conregation
An assemblage or union of persons for a religious purpose. Runkel v. Winemiller, 4 H, & M'H, 452 (1799). A voluntary association of individuals or families, united for the purpose of having a common place of worship, and to provide a proper teacher to instruct them in religious doctrines and duties, and to administer the ordinance.
Consanguinei
Blood relations.
Consanguinity
Latin consanguineus: con, together; sanguis, blood. The connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor.
Conscience
The moral sense, or that capacity of our mental constitution, by which we irresistibly feel the difference between right and wrong.
Consecutive sentences
Successive sentences, one beginning at the expiration of another, imposed against a person convicted of two or more violations.
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