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Definition of Coverture The condition of being a married woman Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Coverture in the Dictionaries, Coverture in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Definition of Court Of Chancery This was the Court of equity presided over by the Lord Chancellor, assisted by tlje Master of the Rolls, and Judges of first instance, known as Vice-ChancellorsThere was always a common law Court and offices in Chancery which dealt with enrollments of deeds, the […]

Definition of Court Of Wards And Liveries Established in 1541 for the purpose of providing the King with an effectual means of asserting his rights with regard to the incidents of tenure by knight service, wardships, liveries, etc. Abolished 1660 Browse You might be interested in these […]

Definition of Court Of Chivalry The obsolete Court of the Constable and Marshal in matters of honour and heraldry Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Court Of Chivalry in the Dictionaries, Court Of Chivalry in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, […]

Definition of Courts, Inferior Courts which are subject to the control of the High Court, e.g., County Courts and local Courts. When an inferior Court refuses to exercise its jurisdiction, it may be compelled to do so by mandamus, and if it exceeds its jurisdiction it may be restrained by […]

Definition of Court Of Common Pleas One of the Courts into which the Curia Regis was divided. It was originally the only superior Court of record having jurisdiction in ordinary, civil actions between subject and subject.t consisted of a Lord Chief Justice and five puisne justices. It was […]

Definition of Court Of Criminal Appeal Created by the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907. It consists of the Lord Chief Justice and the Judges of the King’s Bench Division Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Court Of Criminal Appeal in the Dictionaries, Court […]