In English law. A crop or cock of grass, hay, or corn, divided into titheable portions, that it may be more fairly and justly tithed. … [Read more...] about COPPA
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CORAM NON JUDICE
Latin, meaning Before one who is not a judge. … [Read more...] about CORAM NON JUDICE
COPPER AND SCALES
See MANCIPATIO. … [Read more...] about COPPER AND SCALES
CORD
measures. A cord of wood must, when the wood is piled close, measure eight feet by four, and the wood must be four feet long. There are various local regulations in our principal cities as to the manner in which wood shall be measured and sold. … [Read more...] about CORD
COPPICE, OR COPSE
A small wood, consisting of underwood, which may be cut at twelve or fifteen years' growth for fuel. … [Read more...] about COPPICE, OR COPSE
