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CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE

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In international law. Ambassadors and diplomatic persons at any court or capital. … [Read more...]

CORREI

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Latin: In the civil law. Co-stipulators; joint stipulators. Correi eredendi. In the civil and Scotch law. Joint creditors; creditors in solido. Poth. Obi. pt. 2, c. 4, art 3, … [Read more...]

CORPSE

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The dead body of a human being. As a corpse is considered as nullius bonis, or the property of no one, it follows that stealing it, is not, at common law, a larceny. … [Read more...]

CORRELATIVE

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Having a mutual or reciprocal relation, in such sense that the existence of one necessarily implies the existence of the other. Father and son are correlative terms. Right and duty are correlative terms. … [Read more...]

CORODIUM

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In old English law. A corody. … [Read more...]

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