A company that is hired by a creditor to pursue debtors to collect the debt owed to the creditor. Typically the creditor will make efforts to collect the debt usually through the mail (dunning letters) and possibly via telephone calls. This debt is then either sold or provided to collection agencies, who may take a percentage of amounts collect. Collection agency practices are … [Read more...] about COLLECTION AGENCY
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COLLIERY
This term is sufficiently wide to include all contiguous and connected veins and seams of coal which are worked as one concern, without regard to the closes or pieces of ground under which they are carried, and apparently also the engines and machinery in such contiguous and connected veins. MacSwin. Mines, 25. See Carey v. Bright 58 Pa. 85. … [Read more...] about COLLIERY
COLNE
In Saxon and old English law. An account or calculation. … [Read more...] about COLNE
COHABITATION
Living together; living together as husband and wife. Cohabitation means having the same habitation, not a sojourn, a habit of visiting or remaining for a time; there must be something more than mere meretricious intercourse. Cohseredes una persona censentur, propter unitatem juris quod habent. Co. Litt. 168. Co heirs are deemed as one person, on account of the unity of right … [Read more...] about COHABITATION
COLLABORATION
A joint or cooperative agreement or effort. … [Read more...] about COLLABORATION