Also known as social insurance, these are the required employment benefits that are provided by a state or federal government which ensure a minimum standard of living for lower and middle income people. Typical examples will include disability benefits and health insurance. … [Read more...] about COOPERATIVE INSURANCE
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CONVERSATION
Manner of living; habits of life; conduct; as in the phrase "chaste life and conversation." Bradshaw v. People, 153 111. 156, 38 N. E. 652. "Criminal conversation" means seduction of another man's wife, considered as an actionable injury to the husband. Prettyman v. Williamson, 1 Pennewill (Del.) 224, 39 Atl. 731; Crocker v. Crocker, 98 Fed. 702. … [Read more...] about CONVERSATION
CONVENT
The fraternity of an abbey or priory, as societas is the number of fellows in a college. A religious house, now regarded as a merely voluntary association, not importing civil death. 33 Law J. Ch. 308. … [Read more...] about CONVENT
CONVERSE
The transposition of the subject and predicate in a proposition, as:' "Everything is good in its place." Converse, "Nothing is good which is not in its place." Wharton. … [Read more...] about CONVERSE
CONVENTICLE
A private assembly or meeting for the exercise of religion. The word was first an appellation of reproach to the religious assemblies of Wycliffe in the reigns of pdward III. and Richard II., and was afterwards applied to a meeting of dissenters from the established church. As this word In strict propriety denotes an unlawful assembly, It cannot be justly applied to the … [Read more...] about CONVENTICLE