In French law. The offense of printing or causing to be printed a book, the copyright of which is held by another, without authority from him. Merl. Repert
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In French marine law. The chief oflicer of a vessel, who, in case of the sickness or absence of the master, commanded in his place. Literally, the counter-master
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Lat. In tbo civU law. To haudle; to take hold of; to meddle with
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In the civil and old English law. Touching; handling; meddling. The act of removing a thing from its place in such a manner that, if the thing be not restored, it will amount to theft
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A right or equity, in another person, which is Incon-sistent with and opiKwed to the equity sought to be enforced or recognized
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In old English law. A counter-tally. A term used in the ex-chequer. Mem. In Scacc. M. 26 Edw. L
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A controller, one whose business it was to observe the money which the collectors had gathered for the use of the king or the people. CowelL
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In French law. Contracts are of the following varieties: (1) Bilateral, or syndllagmatiquc, where each party is bound to the other to do what is just nnd proper; or (2) unilateral, where tlie one side only is bound; or (3) commutatif, where one does to the other something which is sup-posed to be an equivalent for what the other does to him; or (4) aldatoire, where the consideration for the act of the one is a mere chance; or (5) contrat de bienfoisancc, where the one party procures to the other a purely gratuitous benefit; or (6) contrat d titre onereux, tthere each party is hound under some duty to the other. Brown
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In old English law. A plea or answer. Blount A counter-po-sition
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This word was used In the time of Edw. II. to signify those who were opposed to the government, but were neither rebels nor traitors. Jacob
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UM. A lawful ex-cuse, which a defendant in a suit by attor-ney alleges for himself to show that the plaintiff has no cause of complaint. Blount
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In old English law. A counter-plea. Townsh. Pl. 61
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In old Eugllsh law. Counter-obligation. Literally, counter-hlnd-ing. Est enim obligatio quasi contraligatio. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 56, § 1
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A countermand-ing. Oontramandatio placiti, in old English law, was the respiting of a defendant, or giving him further time to answer, by cottn-termanding the day fixed for him to plead, and appointing a new day; a sort of impar-lance
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Counterfeiting; as contrafactio sigilli regis, counterfeiting the king’s seal. Cowell
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In Spanish law. A counter-writing; counter-letter. A document executed at the same tlme with an act of sale or other instrument, and operating by way of defeasance or otherwise modifying the apparent effect and purport of the orig-inal instrument. •
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In practice. To dis-prove. To prove a fact contrary to what has been asserted by a witness
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Abbreviation; abridg-ment or shortening of a word by omitting a letter or letters or a syllable, with a mark over the place where the ellsion occurs. This was customary in records written in the an-dent “court hand,” and is frequently found in the books printed in black-letter
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This term is strictly applicable to any person who enters Into a contract, (Kent v. Rallroad Co., 12 N. Y. 628J
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