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CONCORD

CONCUBINATUS. In Roman law. An informal, unsanctioned, or "natural" mar riage, as contradistinguished from the justce nuptice, or justum matrimonium, the civil marriage. CONCUBINE. (1) A woman who co habits with a man to whom she is not mar ried. (2) A sort of inferior wife, among the Romans, upon whom the husband did not confer his rank or quality. CONCUR. In Louisiana. To join with other claimants in presenting a demand against an insolvent estate. CONCURATOR. In the civil law. A joint or co-curator, or guardian. CONCURRENCE. In French law. The possession, by two or more persons, of equal rights or privileges over the same subject matter. CONCURRENT. Having the same au thority; acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act; contributing to the same event; contemporaneous. CONCURRENT JURISDICTION. The jurisdiction of several different tribu nals, both authorized to deal with the same subject-matter at the choice of the suitor. CONCURRENT WRITS. Duplicate originals, or several writs running at the same time for the same purpose, for service on or arrest of a person, when it is not known where he is to be found; or for service on several persons, as when there are several de fendants to an action. Mozley & Whitley. CONCURSUS. In the civil law. (1) A running together; a collision, as concursus creditorum, a conflict among creditors. (2) A concurrence, or meeting, as concursus ac' tionum, concurrence of actions. CONCUSS. In Scotch law. To coerce. CONCUSSIO. In the civil law. The of fense of extortion by threats of violence. Dig. 47, 13. CONCUSSION. In the civil law. The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to give something of value. It dif fers from robbery, in this: that in robbery the thing is taken by force, while in con cussion it is obtained by threatened violence. Heinec. Elem. § 1071. CONDEDIT. In ecclesiastical law. The name of a plea entered by a party to a libel filed in the ecclesiastical court, in which

amends shall be made for the breach or wrong; a compromise or an accord. In old practice. An agreement between two or more, upon a trespass committed, by way of amends or satisfaction for it. Plowd. 5, 6, 3. Concordare leges legibus est optimus interpretandi modus. To make laws agree with laws is the best mode of interpreting them. Halk. Max. 70. CONCORDAT. In public law. A compact or convention between two or more independent governments. An agreement made by a temporal sover eign with the pope, relative to ecclesiastical matters. In French, law. A compromise effected by a bankrupt with his creditors, by virtue of which he engages to pay within a certain time a certain proportion of his debts, and by which the creditors agree to discharge the whole of their claims in consideration of the same. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 553. CONCORDIA. Lat. In old English law. An agreement, or concord. Fleta, lib. 5, c 3, § 5. The agreement or unanimity of a jury. Compellere ad concordiam. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 9, § 2. CONCORDIA DISCORDANTIUM CANONTJM. The harmony of the discord ant canons. A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions made by Gratian, an Italian monk, A. D. 1151; more commonly known by the name of "Decretum Gratiani." Concordia parvee res crescunt et opu lentia lites. 4 Inst. 74. Small means in crease by concord and litigations by opu lence. CONCUBARIA. A fold, pen, or place where cattle lie. Cowell. CONCUBEANT. Lying together, as cattle. CONCUBINAGE. A species of loose or informal marriage which took place among the ancients, and which is yet in use in some countries. See CONCUBINATUS. The act or practice of cohabiting, in sexual commerce, without the authority of law or a legal marriage. An exception against a woman suing for dower, on the ground that she was the con cubine, and not the wife, of the man of whose land she seeks to be endowed. Britt. ©.107.

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