L. Fr. A contest, dispute, disturbance, opposition. Britt c. 42; Kelham. Conteckours; brawlers; disturbers of the peace. Britt c. 29
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one who has committed contempt of court, wyatt v. People, 17 Colo. 252, 28 Pac. 961
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The completion of a thing; the completion of a marriage between two affianced persons hy cohabitation. Shar-on v. Sharon, 79 Cal. 633, 22 Pac. 26
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In English law. Tbe corn-mission received for carrying over or putting off the time of execution of a contract to deliver stocks or pay for them at a certain time, wharton
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Lat in the civil law. De-slgnedly; intentionally. Dig. 28, 41
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Completed; as distiu-guished from initiate, or that which is mere-ly begun. Tbe husband of a woman seised of an estate of inheritance becomes, by the birth of a child, tenant by the curtesy i»-itiate, and may do many acts to charge the lands, but his estate is not consummate till the death of the wife. 2 Bl. Comm. 126,128; Co. Litt. 30a
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In ecclesiastic-al law. A church full or provlded for. Cowell
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A writ whereby a cause which has been wrongfully removed by prohibition out of an ecclesiastical conrt to a temporal court is returned to the ecclesias-tlcal court. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1439
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In Roman law. During the republic, the name “consul” was given to the chief executive magistrate, two of whom were chosen auuually. The office was con-tinued under the empire, but its powers aud prerogatives were greatly reduced. The name is supposed to have been derived from consulo, to consult, because these ofilcers cou-sulted with the senate on administrative measures
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Courts held by the consuls of one country, within the ter-ritory of another, under authority given by treaty, for the settlement of civil cases be-tween citizens of the country which the con-sul represents. In some instances they have also a criminal Jurisdiction, but In thls re-spect are subject to revlew by the courts of the home government See Rev. SL 0. S. | 4083 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2768
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In old English law. A writ of right close, which lay against a tenant who deforced his? lord of the rent or service due to him. Reg. Orig. 159; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 151.
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Lat. A custom; an established usage or practice. Co. Litt. 58. Tolls; duties; taxes. Id. 58b
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In old English law. Customs. Thus, consuetudines et assisa forest#, the customs and assise of the forest
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(Lat. feudal customs.) A compllation of the law of feuds or fiefs in Lombardy, made A. D. 1170
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In ecclesiastical law. A ritual er book, containing the rites and-forms of divine offices, or the cus-toms of abbeys and monasteries
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Customary law. Law derived by oral tradition from a remote antiquity. Bell
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To put together; to arrange or marshal the words of an instrument To ascertain the meaning of language by a process of arrangement and Inference. See Constbuction
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To ravish, debauch, violate, rape. See Harper v. Delp, 3 Ind. 230; Koenig v. Nott, 2 Hilt. (N. Y.) 329
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The process, or the art, of determining the sense, real meaning, or proper explanation of obscure or ambiguous terms or provisions in a statute, written instrument, or oral agreement, or the appli-cation of such subject to the case in question, by reasoning in the light derived from ex-traneous connected circumstances or laws or writings bearing upon the same or a con-nected matter, or by seeking and applying the probable aim and purpose of the pro-vision
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That which is established by the mind of the law in its act of construing facts, conduct, circumstances, or instruments; that which has not the char-acter assigned to it in its own essential na-ture, but acquires such character in consequence of the way in which it is regarded by a rule or policy of law; hence, inferred, im-plled, made out by legal interpretation. Middleton V. Parke, 3 App. D. O. 160
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This term is held to be exactly equivalent with “restraint.” Edmondson v. Harris, 2 Tenn. Ch. 427
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To build; erect; put to-gether; make ready for use. Morse v. west-Port, 110 Mo. 502, 19 S. W. 831; Contas v. Bradford, 206 Pa. 291, 55 AtL 989
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In the civil law. one who, by a simple agreement, becomes respon* sible for the payment of another’s debt
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Consistent with the constitution; authorized by the constitu-tion; not conflicting with any provision of
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