Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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COLLEGE

COLLUSION

In the most common use of the word, it designates an institution of learning (usually incorporated) which offers instruction in the liberal arts and humanities and in scientific branches, but not in the technical arts or those studies preparatory to admission to the professions. In England, it is a civil corporation, com pany 01 society of men, having certain priv ileges, and endowed with certain revenues, founded by royal license. An assemblage of several of these colleges is called a "univer- •ity.*" Wharton. COLLEGIA. In the civil law. The guild of a trade. COLLEGIALITER. In a corporate ca pacity. 2 Kent, Comm. 296. COLLEGIATE CHURCH. In English ecclesiastical law. A church built and en dowed for a society or body corporate of a dean or other president, and secular priests, as canons or prebendaries in the said church; such as the churches of Westminster, Wind sor, and others. Cowell. COLLEGIUM. In the civil law. A word having various meanings; e. g., an as sembly, society, or company; a body of bish ops; an army; a class of men. But the principal idea of the word was that of an as sociation of individuals of the same rank and station, or united for the pursuit of some business or enterprise. COLLEGIUM AMMIRALITATIS. The college or society of the admiralty. Collegium est societas plurium cor porum simul habitantium. Jenk. Cent. 229. A college is a society of several persons dwelling together. COLLEGIUM ILLICITUM. One which abused its right, or assembled for any other purpose than that expressed in its charter. COLLEGIUM LICITUM. An assem blage or society of men united for some use ful purpose or business, with power to act like a single individual. 2 Kent, Comm. 269. 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 car ried, and apparently also the engines and machinery in such contiguous and connected veins. MacSwin. Mines, 25. See 58 Fa. St. 85.

COLI.IGENDUM BONA DEFUNCTL See AD COLLIGENDUM, etc. COLLISION. In maritime law. The act of ships or vessels striking together. In its strict sense, collision means the im pact of two vessels both moving, and is dis tinguished from allision, which designates the striking of a moving vessel against one that is stationary. But collision is used in a broad sense, to include allision, and perhap? other species of encounters between vessels. The term is not inapplicable to cases where a stationary vessel is struck by one under way, strictly termed "allision;" or where one vessel is brought into contact with another by swinging at anchor. And even an injury received by a vessel at her moorings, in consequence of being violently rubbed or pressed against by a second vessel lying along-side of her, in consequence of a collision against such second vessel by a third one under way, may be compensated for, under the general head of "collision," as well as an injury which is the direct result of a "blow,"properly so called. Abb. Adm. 73. COLLISTRIGIUM. The pillory. C O L L I T I G A N T . One who litigates with another. COLLOBIUM. A hood or covering for the shoulders, formerly worn by Serjeants at law. COLLOCATION. In French law. The arrangement or marshaling of the cieditors of an estate in the order in which they are to be paid according to law. Merl. Report. COLLOQUIUM. One of the usual parts of the declaration in an action for slander. It is a general averment that the words com plained of were spoken "of and concerning the plaintiff," or concerning the extrinsic matters alleged in the inducement, and its office is to connect the whole publication with the previous statement. An averment that the words in question are spoken of or concerning some usage, re port, or fact which gives to words otherwise indifferent the peculiar defamatory meaning assigned to them. 16 Pick. 6. COLLUSION. A deceitful agreement or compact between two or more persons, for the one party to bring an action against the other for some evil purpose, as to defraud a third party of his right. Cowell. A secret arrangement between two or more persons, whose interests are apparently conflicting, to make use of the forms and proceedings of law in order to defraud a third person, or to obtain that which justice

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