A judgment or finding, by judge or jury, that the defendant is guilty of a crime. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition In practice. In a general sense, the result of a criminal trial which ends in a judgment or sentence that the prisoner is guilty as charged. Finding a person guilty by verdict of a jury. 1 Bish. Crim. Law, … [Read more...] about CONVICTION
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COOPERTIO
In old English law. The head or branches of a tree cut down; though coopertio arborum is rather the bark of timber trees felled, and the chumps and broken wood. Cowell. … [Read more...] about COOPERTIO
CONVINCING PROOF
Such as is sufficient to establish the proposition in question, beyond hesitation, ambiguity, or reasonable doubt In an unprejudiced mind. Evans v. Rugee, 57 Wis. 623, 16 N. W. 49; French v. Day, 89 Me. 441, 36 Atl. 909 ; Ward v. Waterman, 85 Cal. 488, 24 Pac. 930 ; Winston v. Burnell, 44 Kan. 367, 24 Pac. 477, 21 Am. St Rep. 289. … [Read more...] about CONVINCING PROOF
COOPERTUM
In forest law. A covert; a thicket (dumetum) or shelter for wild beasts in a forest Spelman. … [Read more...] about COOPERTUM
CONVIVIUM
A tenure by which a tenant was bound to provide meat and drink for his lord at least once in the year. Cowell. … [Read more...] about CONVIVIUM