In Spanish law. A cause or matter adjudged, (res judicata.) White, New Recop. b. 3, tit 8, note. … [Read more...]
COST OF LIVING
The amount it costs the average person to live as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). … [Read more...]
COSAS COMUNES
In Spanish law. A term corresponding to the res communes of the Roman law, and descriptive of such things as are open to the equal and common enjoyment of all persons and not to be reduced to private ownership, such as the air, the sea, and the water of running streams. Hall, Mex. Law, 447; Lux v. Haggin, 60 Cal. 255, 10 Pac. 707. … [Read more...]
COST-BOOK
A book in which a number of adventurers who have obtained permission to work a lode, and have agreed to share the enterprise in certain proportions, enter the agreement and from time to time the receipts and expenditures of the mine, the names of the shareholders, their respective accounts with the mine, and transfers of shares. These associations are called "Cost-Book Mining … [Read more...]
CORRUPT
Dishonest. Spoiled. … [Read more...]