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Latin: An association, fellowship, or partnership. Applied by some of the older writers to a corporation, and even to a nation considered as a body politic Thomas v. Dakln, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 104. … [Read more...] about CONSOCIATIO

To provide goods or property to another party for sale, part of the proceeds which will be paid to the provider of the goods. Also another term for giving goods to another party for storage or care. See consignment. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition In the civil law. To deposit in the custody of a third person a thing belonging to the debtor, for the benefit of the … [Read more...] about CONSIGN

The name of a code of sea-laws, said to have been compiled by order of the kings of Arragon (or, according to other authorities, at Pisa or Barcelona) in the fourteenth century, which comprised the maritime ordinances of the Roman emperors, of France and Spain, and of the Italian commercial powers. This compilation exercised a considerable influence in the formation of European … [Read more...] about CONSOLATO DEL MARE

In Scotch law. The payment of money into the hands of a third party, when the creditor refuses to accept of it The person to whom the money is given is termed the "consignatory." Bell. In French law. A deposit which a debtor makes of the thing that he owes into the hands of a third person, and under the authority of a court of justice. 1 Poth. ObL 536; Weld v. Hadley, 1 N. H. … [Read more...] about CONSIGNATION

To join together multiple items into one. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition To consolidate means something more than rearrange or redlvide. In a general sense, it means to unite into one mass or body, as to consolidate the forces of an army, or various funds. In parliamentary usage, to consolidate two bills is to unite them Into one. In law, to consolidate benefices … [Read more...] about CONSOLIDATE