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CONCORDIA

claimants In presenting a demand against an insolvent estate.

of which he engages to pay within a certain time a certain proportion of his debts, and by which the creditors agree to discharge the whole of their claims in consideration of the same. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 553. CONCORDIA. Lat In old English law. An agreement, or concord. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 3, § 5. The agreement or unanimity of a jury. Compellere ad concordiam. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 9, § 2. CONCORDIA DISCORDANTIUM CANONUM. The harmony of the discord ant canons. A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions made by Gratian, an Italian monk, A. D. 1151; more commonly known by the name of "Decretum Oratiani." Concordia parvae res crescunt et opu ientia lites. 4 Inst. 74. Small means in crease by concord and litigations by opu lence. CONCUBARIA. A fold, pen, or place where cattle lie. Cowell. CONCUBEANT. Lying together, as cat tle. CONCUBINAGE. A species of loose or informal marriage which took place among the ancients, and which is yet in use in some countries. See CONCUBINATUS. The act or practice of cohabiting, in sex ual commerce, without the authority of law or a legal marriage. State v. Adams, 179 Mo. 334, 78 S. W. 588; State v. Overstreet, 43 Kan. 299, 23 Pac. 572; Henderson v. Peo ple, 124 111. 607, 17 N. E. 68, 7 Am. St. Rep. 391. An exception against a woman suing for dower, on the ground that she was the con cubine, and not the wife, of the man of whose land she seeks to be endowed. Britt. c. 107. CONCUBINATUS. In Roman law. An informal, unsanctioned, or "natural" mar riage, as contradistinguished from the justce nuptice, or justum matrimonium, the civil marriage. CONCUBINE. (1) A woman who co habits with a man to whom she is not mar ried. (2) A sort of inferior wife, among the Romans, upon whom the husband did not confer his rank or quality. CONCUR. To agree; accord; consent In the practice of appellate courts, a "con curring opinion" is one filed by one of the judges or justices, in which he agrees with the conclusions or the result of another opin ion filed in the case (which may be either the opinion of the court or a dissenting opin ion) though he states separately his views of the case or his reasons for so concurring. In Louisiana law. To join with other

CONCURATOR.

In the civil law. A

joint or co-curator, or guardian.

CONCURRENCE. In French law. The possession, by two or more persons, of equal rights or privileges over the same subject matter. —Concurrence deloyale. A term of the French law nearly equivalent to "unfair trade competition;" and used in relation to the in fringement of rights secursa by trade-marks, etc It signifies a dishonest, perfidious, or treacherous rivalry in trade, or any manoeuvre calculated to prejudice the good will of a business or the value of the name of a property or its credit or renown with the public, to the in jury of a business competitor. Simmons Medi cine Co. v. Mansfield Drug Co., 93 Tenn. 84, 23 S. W. 165. CONCURRENT. Having the same au thority; acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act; contributing to the same event; contemporaneous. As to concurrent "Covenants," "Jurisdic tion," "Insurance," "Lease," "Lien," and "Writs," see those titles. CONCURSO. In the law of Louisiana, the name of a suit or remedy to enable cred itors to enforce their claims against an in solvent or failing debtor. Schroeder v. Nicholson, 2 La. 355. CONCURSUS. In the civil law. (1) A running together; a collision, as conoursus creditorum, a conflict among creditors. (2) A concurrence, or meeting, as concursus ao tionum, concurrence of actions. CONCUSS. In Scotch law. To coerce. CONCUSSIO. In the civil law. The of fense of extortion by threats of violence. Dig. 47, 13. CONCUSSION. In the civil law. The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to give something of value. It dif fers from robbery, in this: That in robbery the thing is taken by force, while in con cussion it is obtained by threatened violence. Heinec. Elem. § 1071. In medical jurisprudence. Concussion of the brain is a jarring of the brain sub stance, by a fall, blow, or other external in jury, without laceration of its tissue, or with only microscopical laceration. May nard v. Railroad Co., 43 Or. 63, 72 Pac. 590. CONDEDIT. In ecclesiastical law. The name of a plea entered by a party to a libel filed in the ecclesiastical court, in which it is pleaded that the deceased made the will which is the subject of the suit, and that he was of sound mind. 2 Eng. Ecc R. 438; 6 Eng. Ecc. R. 431.