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CONFEDERATION, government. The name given to that form of government which the American colonies, on shaking off the British yoke, devised for their m...

CONDUCT, law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great ...

CONDITION, persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more othe...

CONDEMNATION, civil law. A sentence of judgment which condemns some one to do, to give, or to pay something; or which declares that his claim or prete...

CONCORDATE. A convention; a pact; an agreement. The term is generally confined to the agreements made between independent government's; and, most ...

CONCILIUM REGIS. The name of a tribunal which existed in England during the times of Edward I. and Edward H., composed of the judges and sages of the ...

COMPULSION. The forcible inducement to au act.2. Compulsion may be lawful or unlawful. 1. When a man is compelled by lawful authority to do that which...

COMPROMISSARIUS, civil law. A name sometimes given to an arbitrator; because the parties to the submission usually agree to fulfil his award as a comp...

COMPOSITION, contracts. An agreement, made upon a sufficient consideration, between a debtor and creditor, by which the creditor accepts part of the d...

COMPENSATION, crim. law; Compeusatio crimiuura, or recrimination (q. v.)2. In cases of suits for divorce on the ground of adultery, a compensation of ...