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COPPA

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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...]

COO

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Chief Operating Officer … [Read more...]

CO-ORDINATE

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Of the same order, rank, degree, or authority; concurrent; without any distinction of superiority and inferiority; as, courts of "coordinate jurisdiction." See JURISDICTION. coordinate and subordinate are terms often applied as a test to ascertain the doubtful meaning of clauses in an act of parliament If there be two, one of which is grammatically governed by the other, it is … [Read more...]

CO-OBLIGOR

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contracts. One who is bound together with one or more others to fulfill an obligation. He may be jointly, or severally bound. 2. When obligors are jointly and not severally bound to pay a joint debt, they must be sued jointly during their joint lives, and after the death of some of them, the survivors alone can be sued; each is bound to pay the whole debt, having recourse to … [Read more...]

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