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One not made voluntarily but exacted by duress threats the enforcement of legal process or unconscionably taking advantage of another. … [Read more...] about COMPULSORY PAYMENT

Fr. In French law. To grant See CONCESSION. … [Read more...] about CONCEDER

One of several neighbors of a person accused of a crime, or charged as a defendant in a civil action, who, appeared and swore that they believed him on his oath. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Formerly, when a person was accused of a crime, or sued in a civil action, he might purge himself upon oath of the accusation made against him, whenever the proof was not … [Read more...] about COMPURGATOR

Lat. I grant. A word used in old Anglo-Saxon grants, and in statutes merchant … [Read more...] about CONCEDO

The act of computing, numbering, reckoning, or estimating. The account or estimation of time by rule of law, as distinguished from any arbitrary construction of the parties. Cowell. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition counting, calculation. It is a reckoning or ascertaining the number of any thing. 2. It is sometimes used in the common law for the true reckoning or … [Read more...] about COMPUTATION