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Conusant






Conusant

One who knows as if a party knowing of an agreement in which he has an interest, makes no objection to it, he is said to be conusant.

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Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.

Agreement
A verbal or written resolution of disputes.

Interest
1) Estates. The right which a man has in a chattel real, and more particularly in a future term. It is a word of less efficacy and extent than estates, though, in legal understanding, an interest extends to estates, rights and titles which a man has in or out of lands, so that by a grant of his whole interest in land, a reversion as well as the fee simple shall pass. 2) Contracts. The right of property which a man has in a thing, commonly called insurable interest. 3) Evidence. The benefit which a person has in the matter about to be decided and which is in issue between the parties.

Objection
The verbal response of a lawyer when something inappropriate is happening during a trial or deposition. it is one of many steps involved in protecting the record.

Said
Before mentioned.

Conusant
One who knows as if a party knowing of an agreement in which he has an interest, makes no objection to it, he is said to be conusant.



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Conusor
The same as cognizor; one who passes or acknowledges a fine of lands or tenements to another.



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Controversy
A dispute arising between two or more persons.

Contubernium
Civil law. As among the Romans, slaves had no civil state, their marriages, although valid according to natural law, when contr acted with the consent of their masters, and when there was no legal bar to them, yet were without civil effects; they having none except what arose from natural law; a marriage of this kind was called contubernium. It was so called whether both or only one of the parties was a slave.

Contumacy
Civil law. The refusal or neglect of a party accused to appear and answer to a charge preferred against him in a court of justice. This word is derived from the Latin contumacia, disobedience.

Contumax
Civil law. One accused of a crime who refuses to appear and answer to the charge. An outlaw.

Contusion
Medical jurisprudence. An injury or lesion, arising from the shock of a body with a large surface, which presents no loss of substance, and no apparent wound.

Conusant

Conusor
The same as cognizor; one who passes or acknowledges a fine of lands or tenements to another.

Convene
Civil law. This is a technical term, signifying to bring an action.

Conventio
Canon law. The act of convening or calling together the parties, by summoning the defendant.

Conventio vincit legem
Agreement takes the place of the law: the express understanding of parties supersedes such understanding of parties supersedes such understanding as the law would imply. Parties are permitted to make law for themselves where their agreements do not violate the express provisions of any municipal law nor injuriously affect the interests of the public. 22 N.Y. 219.

Convention
1) Contracts, civil law. A general term which comprehends all kinds of contracts, treaties, pacts, or agreements. It is defined to be the consent of two or more persons to form with each other an engagement, or to dissolve or change one which they had previously formed. 2) , legislation. This term is applied to a selecting of the delegates elected by the people for other purposes than usual legislation. It is mostly used to denote all assembly to make or amend the constitution of, a state, but it sometimes indicates an assembly of the delegates of the people to nominate officers to be supported at an election.

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