Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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CORONATORE EXONERANDO

CO-RESPONDENT

CO-RESPONDENT. A person sum moned to answer a bill, petition, or libel, to gether with another respondent. Now chief ly used to designate the person charged with adultery with the respondent in a suit for di vorce for that cause, and joined as a defend ant with such party. COEIUM FORISFACERE. To forfeit one's skin, applied to a person condemned to be whipped; anciently the punishment of a servant. Corium perdere, the same. Cori um redimere, to compound for a whipping. Wharton. CORN. In English law, a general term for any sort of gram; but in America it is properly applied only to maize. In the mem orandum clause in policies of insurance it in cludes pease and beans, but not rice. Park, Ins. 112. CORN LAWS. A species of protective tariff formerly in existence in England, im posing import-duties on various kinds of grain. The corn laws were abolished in 1846. CORN RENT. A rent in wheat or malt paid on college leases by direction of St. 18 Eliz. c. 6. 2 Bl. Comm. 609. CORNAGE. A species of tenure in Eng land, by which the tenant was bound to blow a horn for the sake of alarming the country on the approach of an enemy. It was a spe cies of grand serjeanty. Bac. Abr. "Ten are," N. CORNER. A combination among the dealers in a specific commodity, or outside capitalists, for the purpose of buying up the greater portion of that commodity which is upon the market or may be brought to mar ket, and holding the same back from sale, un til the demand shall so far outrun the lim ited supply as to advance the price abnor mally. 72 Pa. St. 158; 101 Mass. 145. In surveying. An angle made by two boundary lines; the common end of two boundary lines, which run at an angle with each other. CORNET. A commissioned officer of cavalry, abolished in England in 1871, and not existing in the United States army. CORODIO HABENDO. The name of a writ to exact a corody of an abbey or religious house. CORODIUM. In old English law. A corody.

CORODY. In old English law. A sum of money or allowance of meat, drink, and clothing due to the crown from the abbey or other religious house, whereof it was founder, towards the sustentation of such one of its servants as is thought fit to receive it. It differs from a pension, in that it was allowed towards the maintenance of any of the king's servants in an abbey; a pension being given to one of the king's chaplains, for his better maintenance, till he may be provided with a benefice. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 250. See 1 Bl. Comm. 283. COROLLARY. In logic. A collateral or secondary consequence, deduction, or in ference. CORONA. The crown. Placita corona; pleas of the crown; criminal actions or pro ceedings, in which the crown was the prose cutor. CORONA MALA. In old English law. The clergy who abuse their character were BO called. Blount. CORONARE. In old records. To give the tonsure, which was done on the crown, or in the form of a crown; to make a man a priest. Cowell. CORONARE FILIUM. To make one's son a priest. Homo coronatus was one who had received the first tonsure, as preparatoiy to superior orders, and the tonsure was in form of a corona, or crown of thorns. Cowell. CORONATION OATH. The oath ad ministered to a sovereign at the ceremony of crowning or investing him with the insignia of royalty, in acknowledgment of his right to govern the kingdom, in which he swears to observe the laws, customs, and privileges of the kingdom, and to act and do all things conformably thereto. Wharton. CORONATOR. A coroner, (q. v.) Spelman. CORONATORE ELIGENDO. The name of a writ issued to the sheriff, com manding him to proceed to the election of a coroner. CORONATORE EXONERANDO. In English law. The name of a writ for the removal of a coroner, for a cause which is to be therein assigned, as that he is engaged in other business, or incapacitated by years or sickness, or has not a sufficient estate in the county, or lives in an inconvenient part of it.

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