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COMPUTATION

COMPRINT

cial situation from time to time. There are also officers bearing this name in the treas ury department of the United States. —Comptroller in bankruptcy. An officer in England, whose duty it is to receive from the trustee in each bankruptcy his accounts and periodical statements showing the proceed ings in the bankruptcy, and also to call the trus tee to account for any misfeasance, neglect, or omission in the discharge of his duties. Robs. Bankr. 13; Bankr. Act 1869, § 55.— Comp trollers of the hanaper. In English law. Officers of the court of chancery; their offices were abolished by 5 & 6 Vict, c. 103.— State comptroller. A supervising officer of revenue in a state government, whose principal duty is the final auditing and settling of all claims against the state. State v. Doron, 5 Nev. 413. objective necessity. Forcible inducement to the com mission of an act. Navigation Co. v. Brown, 100 Pa. 346; U. S. v. Kimball (a C.) 117 Fed. 163; Gates v. Hester, 81 Ala. 357, 1 South. 848. COMPULSORY, n. In ecclesiastical pro cedure, a compulsory is a kind of writ to compel the attendance of a witness, to un dergo examination. Phillim. Ecc.Law,1258. Involuntary; forc ed; coerced by legal process or by force of statute. —Compulsory arbitration. That which takes place where the consent of one of the parties is enforced by statutory provisions. Wood v. Seattle, 23 Wash. 1, 62 Pac. 135, 52 L. R. A. 369.— Compulsory nonsuit. An in voluntary nonsuit. See NONSUIT.— Compul sory payment. One not made voluntarily, but exacted by duress, threats, the enforcement of legal process, or unconscionably taking advan tage of another. Shaw v. Woodcock, 7 Barn. & C. 73; Beckwith v. Frisbie, 32 Vt. 565: State v. Nelson, 41 Minn. 25, 42 N. W. 548, 4 L. R, A. 300; Lonergan v. Buford, 148 U. S. 581, 13 Sup. Ct. 684, 37 L. Ed. 569.— Compul sory process. Process to compel the attend ance in court of a person wanted there as a witness or otherwise; including not only the ordinary subpoena, but also a warrant of arrest or attachment if needed. Powers v. Com., 24 Ky. Law Rep. 1007, 70 S. W. 644; Graham v. State, 50 Ark. 161, 6 S. W. 721; State v. Nathaniel, 52 La. Ann. 558, 26 South. -1008.— Compulsory sale or purchase. A term sometimes used to characterize the transfer of title to property under the exercise of the pow er of eminent domain. In re Barre Water Co., 62 Vt. 27, 20 Atl. 109, 9 L. R. A. 195. COMPURGATOR. . One, of several neigh bors of a person accused of a crime, or charged as a defendant in a civil action,who appeared and swore that they believed him on his oath. 3 Bl. Comm.341. COMPULSION. Constraint; COMPULSORY, adj.

COMPRINT. A surreptitious printing of another book-seller's copy of a work, to make gain thereby, which was contrary to common law, and is illegal. Wharton. In the civil law. Chil dren by a former marriage, (individually called "privigni," or "primgnce") consider ed relatively to each other. Thus, the son of a husband by a former wife, and the daughter of a wife by a former husband, are the comprivigni of each other. Inst. 1, 10, 8. An arrangement arriv ed at, either in court or out of court, for settling a dispute upon what appears to the parties to be equitable terms, having regard to the uncertainty they are in regarding the facts, or the law and the facts together. Colburn v. Groton, 66 N. H. 151, 28 Atl. 95, 22 L. R. A. 763; Treitschke v. Grain Co., 10 Neb. 358, 6 N. W. 427; Attrill v. Patterson, 58 Md. 226; Bank v. McGeoch, 92 Wis. 286, 06 N. W. 606; Rivers v. Blom, 163Mo. 442, 63 S. W. 812. An agreement between two or more persons, who, for preventing or putting an end to a law suit, adjust their difficulties by mutual consent in the manner which they agree on, and which every one of them prefers to the hope of gain ing, balanced by the danger of losing. Sharp v. Knox, 4 La. 456. In the civil law. An agreement where by two or more persons mutually bind them selves to refer their legal dispute to the de cision of a designated third person, who is termed "umpire" or "arbitrator." Dig. 4, 8; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 471. COMPRIVIGNI. COMPROMISE.

Compromissarii sunt judices. Cent. 128. Arbitrators are judges.

Jenk.

COMPROMISSARIUS.

In the civil law.

An arbitrator.

COMPROMISSUM.

A submission

to

arbitration.

Compramiasnm ad similitudinem ju diciorum redigitur. A compromise is brought into affinity with judgments. Strong v. Strong, 9 Cush. (Mass.) 571. Fr. An account stated in writing, and acknowledged to be correct on its face by the party against whom it is stated. Paschal v. Union Bank of Louisiana, 9 La. Ann. 484. COMPTB ARRETE.

COMPTER.

In Scotch law. An account

COMPUTO.

Lat To compute, reckon,

ing party.

or account. Used in the phrases

insimul

"they reckoned together," (see

computassent,

COMPTROLLER. A public officer of a state or municipal corporation, charged with certain duties in relation to the fiscal affairs of the same, principally to examine and au dit the accounts of collectors of the public money, to keep records, and report the finan

INSIMTIX;) plene computavit, accounted," (see PLENE;) computet, "that he account," (see QUOD COMPUTET.) The act of comput ing, numbering, reckoning, or estimating. "he has fully quod COMPUTATION.