Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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COMPUTATION

COMPOUND INTEREST

Compromissarii stint indices. Jenk. Cent. 128. Arbitrators are judges. COMPROMISSARIUS. In the civil law. An arbitrator. COMPROMISSUM. A submission to arbitration. Compromissum ad similitudinem ju diciorum redigitur. A compromise is brought into affinity with judgments. 9 Cush. 571. COMPTE ARREiTE. Fr. A compte arreU is an account stated in writing, and ac knowledged to be correct on its face by the party against whom it is stated. 9 La. Ann. 484. COMPTER. In Scotch law. An ac counting party. COMPTROLLER. A public officer of a state or municipal corporation, charged with certain duties in relation to the fiscal affairs of the same, principally to examine and audit the accounts of collectors of the public mon ey, to keep recoids, and report the financial situation from time to time. There are also officers bearing this name in the treasury de partment of the United States. COMPTROLLER IN BANKRUPTCY. An officer in England, whose duty it is to re ceive from the trustee in each bankruptcy his accounts and periodical statements show ing the proceedings in the bankruptcy, and also to call the trustee to account for any misfeasance, neglect, or omission in the dis charge of his duties. Bobs. Bankr. 13; Bankr. Act 1869, § 55. COMPTROLLERS OF THE HANA PER. In English law. Officers of the court of chancery; their offices were abol ished by 5 & 6 Viet. c. 103. COMPULSION. Constraint; objective necessity. Forcible inducement to the com mission of an act. COMPULSORY. In ecclesiastical pro cedure, a compulsory is a kind of writ to compel the attendance of a witness, to un dergo examination. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1258. COMPURGATOR. One of several neighbors of a person accused of a crime, oi charged as a defendant in a civil action, who appeared and swore that they believed him on his oath. 3 El. Comm. 341. COMPUTATION. The act of comput ing, numbering, reckoning, or estimating.

charge from a debt by the payment of a smaller sum. COMPOUND INTEREST. Interest upon interest, i. e., when the interest of a sum of money is added to the principal, and then bears interest, which thus becomes a sort of secondary principal. COMPOUNDER. In Louisiana. The maker of a composition, generally called the "amicable compounder." COMPOUNDING A FELONY. The offense committed by a person who, having been directly injured by a felony, agrees with the criminal that he will not prosecute him, on condition of the latter's making reparation, or on receipt of a reward or bribe not to pros ecute. The offense of taking a reward for forbear ing to prosecute a felony; as where a party robbed takes his goods again, or other amends, upon an agreement not to prosecute. 29 Ark. 301; 4 Steph. Comm. 259. COMPRA Y VENTA. In Spanish law. Purchase and sale. COMPRINT. A surreptitious printing •of another book-seller's copy of a work, to make gain thereby, which was contrary to common law, and is illegal. Wharton. COMPRIVIGNI. In the civil law. Chil dren by a former marriage, (individually called "privigni," or "privignce,") consid ered relatively to each other. Thus, the son of a husband by a former wife, and the daughter of a wife by a former husband, are the comprivigni of each other. Inst. 1, 10,8. COMPROMISE. An arrangement ar rived at, either in court or out of court, for settling a dispute upon what appears to the parties to be equitable terms, having regard to the uncertainty they are in regarding the facts, or the law and the facts together. Brown. An agreement between two or more persons, who, for preventing or putting an end to a lawsuit, adjust their difficulties by mutual consent in the manner which they agree on, and which every one of them prefers to the hope of gaining, balanced by the danger of losing. 4 La. 456. In the civil law. An agreement where fly two or more persons mutually bind them selves to refer their legal dispute to the de cision of a designated third person, who is termed "umpire" or "arbitrator." Dig. 4, «• Mar>*ld. Rom

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