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property cannot be so transferred, but some other means must be adopted for its transfer, of which the most usual is an instrument in writing. Mozley & Whitley. CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE. In inter national law. Ambassadors and diplomatic persons at any court or capital. CORPSE. The dead body of a human being. CORPUS. (Lat.) Body; the body; an aggregate or mass, (of men, laws, or articles;) physical substance, as distinguished from in tellectual conception; the principal sum or capital, as distinguished from interest or in come. A substantial or positive fact, as distin guished from what is equivocal and ambigu ous. The corpus delicti (body of an offense) is the fact of its having been actually com mitted. Best, Pres. 269-279. A corporeal act of any kind, (as distin guished from animus or mere intention,) on the part of him who wishes to acquire a thing, whereby he obtains the physical abil ity to exercise his power over it whenever he pleases. The word occurs frequently in this sense in the civil law. Mackeld. Rom. Law, §248. CORPUS CHRISTI DAY. In English law. A feast instituted in 1264, in honor of the sacrament. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 21. CORPUS COMITATUS. The body of a county. The whole county, as distinguished from a part of it, or any particular place in it. 5 Mason, 290. CORPUS CORPORATUM. A corpora tion ; a corporate body, other than municipal. CORPUS CUM CAUSA. (The body with the cause.) An English writ which is sued out of chancery, to remove both the hody and the record, touching the cause of any man lying in execution upon a judgment for debt, into the king's bench, there to remain until he satisfied the judgment. Cowell; Blount. CORPUS DELICTI. The body of a crime. The body (material substance) upon which a crime has been committed, e. g., the corpse of a murdered man, the charred re mains of a house burned down. In a deriva tive sense, the substance or foundation of a crime; the substantial fact that a crime has been committed. Corpus humanum non recipit aesti mationem. The human body does not ad mit of valuation. Hob. 59.

CORPUS JURIS. A body of law. A term used to signify a book comprehending several collections of law. There are two principal collections to which this name is given; the Corpus Juris Civilis, and the Corpus Juris Canonici, (q. v.) CORPUS JURIS CANONICI. The body of the canon law. A compilation of the canon law, comprising the decrees and can ons of the Roman Church, constituting the body of ecclesiastical law of that church. CORPUS JURIS CIVILIS. The body of the civil law. The system of Roman ju risprudence compiled and codified under the direction of the emperor Justinian, in A. D. 528-534. This collection comprises the In stitutes, Digest, (or Pandects,) Code, and Novels. The name is said to have been first applied to this collection early in the seven teenth century. CORPUS PRO CORPORE. Lat. In old records. Body for body. A phrase ex pressing the liability of manucaptors. 3 How. State Tr. 110. CORRECTION. Discipline; chastise ment administered by a master or other per son in authority to one who has committed an offense, for the purpose of curing his faults or bringing him into proper subjec tion. CORRECTION, HOUSE OP. A pris on for the reformation of petty or juvenile offenders. CORRECTOR OP THE STAPLE. U old English law. A clerk belonging to the staple, to write and recoid the bargains of merchants there made. CORREGIDOR. In Spanish law. A magistrate who took cognizance of various misdemeanors, and of civil matters. 2 White, New Recop. 53. CORREI. Lat. In the civil law. Co stipulators; joint stipulators. CORREI CREDENDI. Lat. In the civil and Scotch law. Joint creditors; cred itors in solido. Poth. Obi. pt. 2, c. 4, art. 3, §11 CORREI DEBENDI. Lat. In Scotch law. Two or more persons bound as princi pal debtors to another. Ersk. Inst. 3, 3, 74. CORRELATIVE. Having a mutual or reciprocal relation, in such sense that the existence of one necessarily implies the ex

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