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CO-SIGN

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To jointly sign, execute or endorse, such as to co-sign on a loan contract for a car. … [Read more...]

CORPORE ET ANIMO

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Lat. By the body and by the mind; by the physical act and by the mental intent Dig. 41, 2, 3. … [Read more...]

CORPOREAL

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A term descriptive of such things as have an objective, material existence; perceptible by the senses of sight and touch; possessing a real body. Opposed to Incorporeal and spiritual. Civ. Code La. 1900, art 460; Sullivan v. Richardson, 33 Fla. 1, 14 South. 692. There is a distinction between "corporeal" and "corporal." The former term means "possessing a body," that is, … [Read more...]

CORRECTOR OF THE STAPLE

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In old English law. A clerk belonging to the staple, to write and record the bargains of merchants there made. … [Read more...]

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