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COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

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Property used for commerce, trade or businesses and not zoned as residential propertly. … [Read more...] about COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

COMMENDATORS

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eccl. law. Secular persons upon whom ecclesiastical benefices are bestowed, because they were commended and instructed to their oversight: they are merely trustees. … [Read more...] about COMMENDATORS

COMMERCIUM

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Latin: In the civil law. Commerce; business; trade; dealings in the nature of purchase and sale; a contract Commercinm jure gentium commune osso debet, et non in monopolium et privatum pauoorum quaastum convertonduin. 3 Inst 181. Commerce, by the law of nations, ought to be common, and not converted to monopoly and the private gain of a few. … [Read more...] about COMMERCIUM

COMES

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Meaning arrives and presents or comes forward, usually used in pleading. (A) pleading. In a plea, the defendant says, And the said C D, by E F, his attorney, comes, and defends The word comes, venit, expresses the appearance of the defendant , in court. It is taken from the style of the entry of the proceedings on the record, and formed no part of the viva voce pleading. It is, … [Read more...] about COMES

COMMANDEMENT

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In French law. A writ served by the huissier pursuant to a judgment or to an executory notarial deed.. Its object is to give notice to the debtor that if he does not pay the sum to which he has been condemned by the judgment, or which he engaged to pay by the notarial deed, his property will be seized and sold. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 550. … [Read more...] about COMMANDEMENT

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