An ecclesiastic who receives auricular confessions of sins from persons under his spiritual charge, and pronounces absolution npon them. The secrets of the confessional are not privileged communications at common law, but this has been changed by statute in some states. Sea 1 Greenl. Ev. … [Read more...] about CONFESSOR
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CONFESSORIA ACTIO
Lat. In the civil law. An action for enforcing a servitude. Mackeld. Rom. Law, … [Read more...] about CONFESSORIA ACTIO
CONFIDENCE
Trust; reliance: ground of trust In the construction of wills, this word is considered peculiarly appropriate to create a trust "It is as applicable to the subject of a trust, as nearly a synonym, as the English language Is capable of. Trust is a confidence which one man reposes in another, and confidence is a trust" Appeal of Coates, 2 Pa. 133. … [Read more...] about CONFIDENCE
CONFIDENCE GAME
A scam, a swindle. An unscrupulous individual obtains the confidence and trust of an individual for the purpose of having funds or property entrusted to them which, after obtaining possession, the swindler departs with the property. … [Read more...] about CONFIDENCE GAME
CONE AND KEY
In old English law. A woman at fourteen or fifteen years of age may take charge of her house and receive cone and hey; that is, keep the accounts and keys. Cowell. Said hy Lord Coke to be cover and keye, meaning that at that age a woman knew what in her house should be kept under lock and key. 2 Inst 203. … [Read more...] about CONE AND KEY