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CONQUISITOR

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In feudal law. A purchaser, acquirer, or conqueror. 2 Bl. Comm. 242, 248. … [Read more...] about CONQUISITOR

Conn. Pub. Int. L.J.

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Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal … [Read more...] about Conn. Pub. Int. L.J.

CONSANGUINEUS

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Lat. A person related by blood; a person descended from the same common stock. Consanguineus frater. In civil and feudal law. A half-brother by the father's side, as distinguished from frater uterinum, a brother by the mother's side. Consanguineus est quasi eodem sanguine natus. Co. Litt 157. A person related by consanguinity is, as it were, sprung from the same blood. … [Read more...] about CONSANGUINEUS

CONFUSION OF RIGHTS

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contracts. When the qualities of debtor and creditor are united in the same person, there arises a confusion of rights, which extinguishes the two credits; for instance, when a woman obliges marries the obligor, the debt is extinguished. There is, however, an excepted case in relation to a bond given by the husband to the wife; when it is given to the intended wife for a … [Read more...] about CONFUSION OF RIGHTS

CONJUGAL

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Matrimonial; belonging, to marriage as, conjugal rights, or the rights which belong to the husband or wife as such. … [Read more...] about CONJUGAL

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