Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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COOPEETUM

COPY

COPARTNERSHIP. A partnership. COPARTNERY. In Scotch law. The contract of copartnership. A contract by which the several partners agree concerning the communication of loss or gain, arising from the subject of the contract. Bell. COPE. A custom or tribute due to the crown or lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire; also a hill, or the roof and covering of a house; a church vestment. COPEMAN, or COPESMAN. A chap man, (q. v.) COPESMATE. A merchant; a partner in merchandise. COPIA. Lat. In civil and old En glish law. Opportunity or means of access. In old English law. A copy. Copia libelli, the copy of a libel. Beg. Orig. 58. COPIA LIBELLI DELIBERANDA. The name of a writ that lay where a man could not get a copy of a libel at the hands of a spiritual judge, to have the same deliv ered to him. Beg. Orig. 51. COPIA VERA. In Scotch practice. A true copy. Words written at the top of copies of instruments. COPPA. In English law. A crop or cock of grass, hay, or corn, divided into titheable portions, that it may be more fairly and justly tithed. COPPER AND SCALES. See MANOI PAT10. COPPICE, or COPSE. A small wood, consisting of underwood, which may be cut at twelve orfifteenyears' growth for fuel. COPULA. The corporal consummation of marriage. Copula, (in logic,) the link be tween subject and predicate contained in the verb. Copulatio verborum indicat accepta tionem in eodem sensu. Coupling of words together shows that they are to be understood in the same sense. 4 Bacon's Works, p. 26; Broom, Max. 588. COPULATIVE TERM. One which is placed between two or more others to join them together. COPY. The transcript or double of an original writing; as the copy of a patent, charter, deed, etc. Exemplifications are copies verified by the

COOPERTUM. In forest law. A cov ert; a thicket (dumetum) or shelter for wild beasts in a forest. Spelman. COOPERTURA. In forest law. A thicket, or covert of wood. COOPERTUS. Covert; covered. CO-OPTATION. A concurring choice; the election, by the members of a close cor poration, of a person to fill a vacancy. CO-ORDINATE and SUBORDI NATE are terms often applied as a test to ascertain the doubtful meaning of clauses in an act of parliament. If there be two, one of which is grammatically governed by the oth er, it is said to be "subordinate" to it; but, if both are equally governed by some third clause, the two are called "co-ordinate." Wharton. COPARCENARY. A species of estate, or tenancy, which exists where lands of in heritance descend from the ancestor to two or more persons. It arises in England either by common law or particular custom. By common law, as where a person, seised in fee-simple or fee-tail, dies, and his next heirs are two or more females, his daughters, sis ters, aunts, cousins, or their representatives; in this case they all inherit, and these co heirs are then called "coparceners," or, for brevity, "parceners" only. Litt. §§ 241, 242; 2 Bl. Comm. 187. By particular custom, as where lands descend, as in gavelkind, to all the males in equal degree, as sons, brothers, uncles, etc. litt. § 265; 1 Steph. Comm. 819. While joint tenancies refer to persons, the idea of coparcenary refers to the estate. The title to it is always by descent. The respective shares may be unequal; as, for instance, one daughter and two granddaughters, children of a deceased daughter, may take by the same act of descent. As to strangers, the tenants' seisin is a joint one, but, as between themselves, each is seised of his or her own share, on whose death it goes to the heirs, and not by survivorship. The right of pos session of coparceners is in common, and the pos session of one is, in general, the possession of the others. 1 Washb. Real Prop. *414. COPARCENERS. Persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as an entire estate. 2 Bl. Comm. 187. COPARTICEPS. In old English law. Aeoparcener. COPARTNER. One who is a partner with one or more other persons; a member of a partnership.

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