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  • Covin

    Definition of Covin A secret assent determined in the hearts of two or more to the defrauding and prejudice of another. (Coke.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Covin in the Dictionaries, Covin in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse […]

  • Cox V. Burbidge

    Definition of Cox V. Burbidge ((1863), 13 C. B. (N.S.) 430). The owner of an animal domitice naturce is not liable for damage done by it, unless the knows that it has mischievous propensities (scienter).The plaintiff, a young child, was playing on the highway, and a horse, the property of the […]

  • Cox V. Hickman

    Definition of Cox V. Hickman ((1860), 8. H. L. C. 268). The true test of partnership is not sharing profits, but the existence of such a relation between persons sharing profits that each of them is a principal and each of them an agent for the othersA firm, Smith & Co., became insolvent and […]

  • Courts Of Conscience

    Definition of Courts Of Conscience Courts for the recovery of small debts held by members of various corporations who, without the intervention of professional advocates, decided such cases as came before them Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription […]

  • Courts Of Request

    Definition of Courts Of Request Inferior Courts having local jurisdiction in claims for small debts, established in various parts of the kingdom by special Acts of Parliament. Abolished 1846 Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Courts Of Request in the […]

  • Courts, Superior

    Definition of Courts, Superior Courts which are not subject to the control of any other Court, except by way of appeal Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Courts, Superior in the Dictionaries, Courts, Superior in our legal dictionaries, Related […]

  • Couturier V. Hastie

    Definition of Couturier V. Hastie ((1856), 5. H. L. C. 673). If the subjectmatter with reference to which parties contract has ceased to exist at the date of the contract, without the parties’ knowledge, the contract is voidA cargo of corn coming from Salonica was sold, but at the time of the […]

  • Covenant

    Definition of Covenant An agreement creating an obligation, contained in a deed. It may be positive, stipulating the performance of some act or the payment of money, or negative or restrictive, forbidding the commission of some afct. Covenants may be used to serve the purpose of a bond (q.v.)A […]

  • Covenant, Action Of

    Definition of Covenant, Action Of The action which down to 1875 lay where a party claimed damages for breach of covenant Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Covenant, Action Of in the Dictionaries, Covenant, Action Of in our legal dictionaries, […]

  • Covenant To Stand Seifted

    Definition of Covenant To Stand Seifted A covenant by a person seised or land in possession, reversion, or vested remainder in consideration of his natural love and affection, to stand seised of the land to the use of his wife, child or kinsman. By the Statute of Uses the use was converted […]