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In old English law. A comparison of marks or seals. A mode of testing the genuineness of a seal, by comparing it with another known to be genuine. Adams. See Bract foL 889b. … [Read more...] about COLLATIO SIGNORUM

officer. One appointed to receive taxes or other impositions; as collector of taxes; collector of militia fines A collector is also a person appointed by a private person to collect the credits due him. … [Read more...] about COLLECTOR

The pillory. … [Read more...] about COLLISTRIGIUM

A title given to Serjeants at law, who are called "Serjeants of the coif," from the coif they wear on their heads. The use of this coif at first was to cover the clerical tonsure, many of the practising Serjeants being clergyman who had abandoned their profession. It was a thin linen cover, gathered together in the form of a skull or helmet; the material being afterwards … [Read more...] about COIF

The challenge of another case or another court's ruling in the case at bar. Where a party will challenge the ruling of another state (e.g. a default judgment in California) which provided the right of the other party to bring an action in the current state (a collections case on that judgment in New York.) … [Read more...] about COLLATERAL ATTACK