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CORPORATION ACT

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In English law. The statute 13 Car. II. St. 2 c. 1; by which it was provided that no person should thereafter be elected to office in any corporate town that should not within one year previously have taken the sacrament of the Lord … [Read more...] about CORPORATION ACT

COPPICE, OR COPSE

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A small wood, consisting of underwood, which may be cut at twelve or fifteen years' growth for fuel. … [Read more...] about COPPICE, OR COPSE

CO-RESPONDENT

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A person summoned to answer a bill, petition, or libel, together with another respondent. Now chiefly used to designate the person charged with adultery with the respondent in a suit for divorce for that cause, and joined as a defendant with such party. Lowe v. Bennett, 27 Misc. Rep. 356, 58 N. Y. Supp. 88. … [Read more...] about CO-RESPONDENT

COPROLALIA

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In medical jurisprudence. A disposition or habit of using obscene language, developing unexpectedly in the particular individual or contrary to his previous history and habits, recognized as a sign of insanity or of aphasia. … [Read more...] about COPROLALIA

CORIUM FORISFACERE

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To forfeit one's skin, applied to a person condemned to be whipped ; anciently the punishment of a servant. Corium perdere, the same. Corium redimere, to compound for a whipping. Wharton. … [Read more...] about CORIUM FORISFACERE

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