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CommLaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law and Policy … [Read more...] about CommLaw Conspectus

practice. Officers appointed by some courts to take recognizances of bail in civil cases. … [Read more...] about COMMISSIONERS OF BAIL

contracts. A term used in the Scotch law, which is synonymous to the Latin commodatum, or loan for use. Judge Story regrets this term has not been adopted and naturalized, as mandate has been from mandatum. Ayliffe, in his Pandects, has gone further, and terms the bailor the commodant, and the bailee the commodatory, thus avoiding those circumlocutions, which, in the common … [Read more...] about COMMODATE

Eng. law. Officers whose duty it is to repair sea banks aud walls, survey rivers, public streams, ditches … [Read more...] about COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS

Lat. In the civil law. An action of loan; an action for a thing lent An action given for the recovery of a thing loaned, (commodatum,) and not returned to the lender. Inst. 3, 15, 2; Id. 4, 1, 16. … [Read more...] about COMMODATI ACTIO