Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CONNECTIONS

CONSANGUINITY

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CONNECTIONS. Relations by blood or marriage* but more commonly the relations of a person with whom one is connected by marriage. In this sense, the relations of a wife are "connections " of her husband. The term is vague and indefinite. See 1 Fa. St. 607. CONNEXITE. In French law. This exists when two actions are pending which, although not identical as in lis pendens, are so nearly similar in object that it is expedi ent to have them both adjudicated upon by the same judges. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 553. CONNIVANCE. The secret or indirect consent or permission of one person to the commission of an unlawful or criminal act by another. Literally, a winking at; intentional for bearance to see a fault or other act; generally implying consent to it. Webster. Connivance is the corrupt consent of one party to the commission of the acts of the other, constituting the cause of divorce. Civil Code Cal. § 112. Connivance differs from condonation, though the same legal consequences may attend it. Conniv ance necessarily involves criminality on the part of the individual who connives; condonation may take place without imputing the slightest blame to the party who forgives the injury. Connivance must be the act of the mind before the offense has been committed; condonation is the result of a de termination to forgive an injury which was not known until after it was inflicted. 8 Hagg. Ecc. S80. CONNOISSEMENT. In French law. An instrument similar to our bill of lading. CONNUBIUM. In the civil law. Mar riage. Among the Romans, a lawful mar riage as distinguished from "concubinage," (q. v.,) which wa3 an inferior marriage. CONOCIAMENTO. In Spanish law. A recognizance. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 7, c. 5, § 3. CONOCIMIENTO. In Spanish law. A bill of lading. In the Mediterranean ports it is called "poliza de cargamiento." CONPOSSESSIO. In modern civil law. A joint possession. Mackeld. Rom. Law, §245. CONQUER.EUR. In Norman and old English law. The first purchaser of an es tate; he who first brought an estate into his family. CONQUEROR. In old English and •Scotch law. The first purchaser of an estate;

he who brought it into the family owning ft. 2 Bl. Comm. 242, 243. CONQUEST. In feudal law. Con quest; acquisition by purchase; any method of acquiring the ownership of an estate other than by descent. Also an estate acquired otherwise than by inheritance. In international law. The acquisition of the sovereignty of a country by force of arms, exercised by an independent power which reduces the vanquished to the submis sion of its empire. In Scotch law. Purchase. Bell. CONQUESTOR. Conqueror. The title given to William of Normandy. CONQUETS. In French law. The name given to every acquisition which the husband and wife, jointly or severally, make during the conjugal community. Thus, what ever is acquired by the husband and wife, either by his or her industry or good fortune, inures to the extent of one-half for the bene fit of the other. Merl. Report. "Conquet." CONQUISITIO. In feudal and old En glish law. Acquisition. 2 Bl. Comm. 242. CONQUISITOR. In feudal law. A pur chaser, acquirer, or conqueror. 2 Bl. Comm. 242, 243. CONSANGUINEUS. A person related by blood; a person descended from the same common stock. Consanguineus est quasi eodem san guine natus. Co. Litt. 157. A person re lated by consanguinity is, as it were, sprung from the same blood. CONSANGUINEUS PRATEE. In civil and feudal law. A half-brother by the father's side, as distinguished from /rater uterinus, a brother by the mother's side. CONSANGUINITY. The connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor. It is either lineal or collateral. Lineal is that which subsists between persons of whom one is descended in a direct line from the other, as between son, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and so upwards in the direct ascending line; or between son. grandson, great-grandson, and so downwards in the direct descending line. Collateral agree with the lineal in this, that they descend from the same stock or ancestor; but differ in this, that they do not descend one from the other. 2 Bl. Comm. 202.

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