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publication, or common-law copyright The word is also used synonymously with "literary prop erty;" thus, the exclusive right of the owner pub licly to read or exhibit a work is often called "copy* right." This is not strictly correct. Drone, Copyr. 100. International copyright is the right of a subject of one country to protection against the republication in another country of a work which he originally published in his own country. Sweet. CORAAGIUM, or CORAAGE. Meas« ures of corn. An unusual and extraordi nary tribute, arising only on special occasions They are thus distinguished from services. Mentioned in connection with hidage and carvage. Co well. CORAM. Lat. Before; in presence of. Applied to persons only. Townsh. Fl. 22. CORAM DOMINO REGE. Before our lord the king. Coram domino rege ubi cumque tune fuerit Anglios, before our lord the king wherever he shall then be in Eng land. CORAM IPSO REGE. Before the king himself. The old name of the court of king's bench, which was originally held before the king in person. 3 Bl. Comm. 41. CORAM NOBIS. Before us ourselves, (the king, i. e., in the king's or queen's bench.) Applied to writs of error directed to another branch of the same court, e. g., from the full bench to the court at nisiprius. 1 Archb. Pr. K. B. 234. CORAM NON JUDICE. In presence of a person not a judge. When a suit is brought and determined in a court which has no jurisdiction in the matter, then it is said to be coram nonjudice, and the judgment is void. CORAM PARIBUS. Before the peers or freeholders. The attestation of deeds, like all other solemn transactions, was originally done only coram paribus. 2 Bl. Comm. 307. Coram paribus de vicineto, before the peers or freeholders of the neighborhood. Id. 315. CORAM SECTATORIBUS. Before the suitors. Cro. Jac. 582. CORAM VOBIS. Before you. A writ of error directed by a court of review to the court which tried the cause, to correct an er ror in fact. 3 Md. 325; 3 Steph. Comm. 642. CORD. A measure of wood, containing 128 cubic feet.

great seal or by the seal of a court. 1 Gilb. Ev. 19. Examined copies are those which have been compared with the original or with an official record thereof. Office copies are those made by officers in trusted with the originals and authorized for that purpose. COPYHOLD. A species of estate at will, or customary estate in England, the only vis ible title to which consists of the copies of the court rolls, which are made out by the stew ard of the manor, on a tenant's being admit ted to any parcel of land, or tenement belong ing to the manor. It is an estate at the will of the lord, yet such a will as is agreeable to the custom of the manor, which customs are preserved and evidenced by the rolls of the several courts baron, in which they are en tered. 2 Bl. Comm. 95. In a larger sense, copyhold is said to import every customary tenure, (that is, every tenure pending on the particular custom of a manor,) as opposed to free socage, or freehold, which may now (since the abolition of knight-service) be con sidered as the general or common-law tenure of the country. 1 Steph. Comm. 210. COPYHOLD COMMISSIONERS. Commissioners appointed to carry into effect various acts of parliament, having for their principal objects the compulsory commutation of manorial burdens and restrictions, (fines, heriots, rights to timber and minerals, etc.,) and the compulsory enfranchisement of copy hold lands. 1 Steph. Comm. 643; Elton, Copyh. COPYHOLDER. A tenant by copyhold tenure, (by copy of court-roll.) 2 Bl. Comm. 95. COPYRIGHT. The right of literary prop erty as recognized and sanctioned by positive law. A right granted by statute to the author or originator of certain literary or artistic pro ductions, whereby he is invested, for a lim ited period, with the sole and exclusive priv ilege of multiplying copies of the same and publishing and selling them. An incorporeal right, being the exclusive privilege of printing, reprinting, selling, and publishing his own original work, which the law allows an author. Wharton. Copyright is the exclusive right of the owner of an intellectual production to multiply and dispose of copies; the sole right to the copy, or to copy it. The word is used indifferently to signify the statu tory and the common-law right; or one right is sometimes called "copyright"afterpublication, or statutory copyright; the other copyright before

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