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Unsolocited calling, e.g. telemarketing calls or calling those you don't know for the purpose of trying to encourage them to buy a product, service or stock, etc. … [Read more...] about COLD CALLING

A collateral heir is one who is not of the direct line of the deceased, but comes from a collateral line; as, a brother, sister, an uncle and aunt, a nephew, niece, or cousin of the deceased. … [Read more...] about COLLATERAL HEIR

A testamentary disposition subsequent to a will, and by which the will is altered, explained, added to, subtracted from, or confirmed by way of republication, but in no case totally revoked. Lamb v. Lamb, 11 Pick. (Mass.) 376; Dunham v. Averlll, 45 Conn. 70, 20 Am. Rep. 642; Green v. Lane, 45 N. C. 113; Grimball v. Patton, 70 Ala. 631; Proctor v. Clarke, 3 Redf. Sur. (N. Y.) … [Read more...] about CODICIL

(A) pleading. Where the defendant in an action of replevin (not being entitled to the distress or goods which are the subject of the replevin) acknowledges the taking of the distress, and insists that such taking was legal, not because he himself had a right to distrain on his own account, but because he made the distress by the command of another, who had a right to distrain … [Read more...] about COGNISANCE

In the Roman law. A codicil; an informal and Inferior kind of will, in use among the Romans. … [Read more...] about CODICILLUS