Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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c. 24, which lay for the benefit of the rever sioner, where a tenant by the cuitesy aliened in fee or for life. CONSISTING. Being composed or made up of. This word is not synonymous with "including;" for the latter, when used in connection with a number of specified ob jects, always implies that there may be oth ers which are not mentioned. 6 Mo. App. 331. CONSISTORIUM. The state council of the Roman emperors. Mackeld. Rom. Law, §58. CONSISTORY. In ecclesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the pope. CONSISTORY COURTS. Courts held by diocesan bishops within their several cathedrals, for the trial of ecclesiastical caus es arising within their respective dioceses. The bishop's chancellor, or his commissary, is the judge; and from his sentence an ap peal lies to the archbishop. Mozley & Whit ley. CONSOBRINI. In the civil law. Cous ins-german, in general; brothers' and sisters' children, considered in their relation to each other. CONSOLATO DEL MARE. The name of a code of sea-laws, said to have been com piled by order of the kings of Arragon (or, according to other authorities, at Pisa or Bar celona) in the fourteenth century, which comprised the maritime ordinances of the Roman emperors, of France and Spain, and of the Italian commercial powers. This com pilation exercised a considerable influence in the formation of European maritime law. CONSOLIDATE. To consolidate means something more than rearrange or redivide. In a general sense, it means to unite into one mass or body, as to consolidate the forces of an army, or various funds. In parliamentary usage, to consolidate two bills is to unite them into one. In law, to consolidate bene fices is to combine them into one. 45 Iowa. 56. CONSOLIDATED FUND. In England A fund for the payment of the public debt CONSOLIDATED ORDERS. The or ders regulating the practice of the English court of chancery, which were issued, in 1860, in substitution for the various orders which had previously been promulgated from time to time.

CONSIDERATUR. L. Lat. It is con sidered. Held to mean the same with con sideratum est. 2 Strange, 874. CONSIGN. In the civil law. To de posit in the custody of a third person a thing belonging to the debtor, for the benefit of the creditor, under the authority of a court of justice. Poth. Obi. pt. 3, c. 1, art. 8. In commercial law. To deliver goods to a carrier to be transmitted to a designated factor or agent. To deliver or transfer as a charge or trust; to commit, intrust, give in trust; to transfer from oneself to the care of another; to send or transmit goods to a merchant or factor for sale. 4 Daly, 320. CONSIGNATION. In Scotch law. The payment of money into the hands of a third party, when the creditor refuses to ac cept of it. The person to whom the money is given is termed the "consignatory." Bell. In French law. A deposit which a debtor makes of the thing that he owes into the hands of a third person, and under the authority of a court of justice. 1 Poth. Obi. 536; 1 N". H. 304. CONSIGNEE. In mercantile law. One to whom a consignment is made. The per son to whom goods are shipped for sale. CONSIGNMENT. The act or process of consigning goods; the transportation of goods consigned; an article or collection of goods sent to a factor to be sold; goods or property sent, by the aid of a common carrier, from one person in one place to another person in another place. See CONSIGN. CONSIGNOR. One who sends or makes a consignment. A shipper of goods. Consilia multorum quseruntur in mag nis. 4 Inst. 1. The counsels of many are required in great things. CONSILIARIUS. In the civil law. A counsellor, as distinguished from a pleader or advocate. An assistant judge. One who participates in the decisions. Du Cange. CONSIIiIUM. A day appointed to hear the counsel of both parties. A case set down for argument. It is commonly used for the day appointed for the argument of a demurrer, or errors as signed. 1 Tidd, Pr. 438. CONSIMILI CASU. In practice. A writ of entry, framed under the provisions 3f the statute Westminster 2, (13 Edw. I.,)

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