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CONSCIENCE

CONNIVANCE

CONQUESTOR.

The title

Conqueror.

by another. Oakland Bank v. Wilcox, 60 Oal. 137; State v. Gesell, 124 Mo. 531, 27 S. W. 1101. Literally, a winking at; intentional for bearance to see a fault or other act; general ly implying consent to it. Webster. Connivance is the corrupt consent of one party to the commission of the acts of the other, constituting the cause of divorce. Civ. Code Cal. § 112. Dennis v. Dennis, 68 Conn. 186, 36 Atl. 34, 34 L. R A- 449, 57 Am. St. Rep. 95; Robbins v. Robbins, 140 Mass. 528, 5 N. B. 837, 54 Am. Rep. 488. Connivance differs from condonation, though the same legal consequences may attend it. Connivance necessarily involves criminality on the part of the individual who connives; con donation may take place without imputing the slightest blame to the party who forgives the injury. Connivance must be the act of the mind before the offense has been committed; condonation is the result of a determination to forgive an injury which was not known until after it was inflicted. Turton v. Turton, 3 Hagg. Ecc. 350. CONNOISSEMENT. In French law. An instrument similar to our bill of lading. In the civil law. Mar riage. Among the Romans, a lawful mar riage as distinguished from "concubinage," (q. v.,) which was an inferior marriage. In Spanish law. A recognizance. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit 7, c 5, | 3. In Spanish law. A bill of lading. In the Mediterranean ports it is called "poliza de cargamiento." In modern civil law. A joint possession. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 245. In Norman and old English law. The first purchaser of an es tate; he who first brought an estate into his family. In old English and Scotch law. The first purchaser of an es tate ; he who brought it into the family own ing it 2 Bl. Comm. 242, 243. Conquest; acquisition by purchase; any method of ac quiring the ownership of an estate other than by descent Also an estate acquired otherwise than by inheritance. In international law. The acquisition of the sovereignty of a country by force of arms, exercised by an independent power which reduces the vanquished to the submis sion of its empire. Castillero v. U. S., 2 Black, 109, 17 L. Ed. 360. In Scotch'law. Purchase. BelL CONNUBIUM. CONOCIAMENTO. CONOCIMIENTO. CONPOSSESSIO. CONQUEREUR. CONQUEROR. CONQUEST. In feudal law.

given to William of Normandy.

CONQUETS. In French law. The name given to every acquisition which the hus band and wife, jointly or severally, make during the conjugal community. Thus, what ever is acquired by the husband and wifei either by his or her industry or good fortune, inures to the extent of one-half for the bene fit of the other. Merl. Repert "Conqu&t." Picotte v. Cooley, 10 Mo. 312. CONQUISITIO. In feudal and old Eng lish law. Acquisition. 2 Bl. Comm. 242. In feudal law. A pur chaser, acquirer, or conqueror. 2 Bl. Comm. 242, 243. A person re lated by blood; a person descended from the same common stock. — Consangninens frater. In civil and feud al law. A half-brother by the father's side, as distinguished from frater uterinum, a brother by the mother's side. Consangninens est quasi eodem san guine natua. Co. Litt 157. A person re lated by consanguinity is, as it were, sprung from the same blood. Kinship; blood re lationship ; the connection or relation of per sons descended from the same stock or common ancestor. 2 Bl. Comm. 202; Blodget v. Brinsmaid, 9 Vt 30; State v. De Hart 109 La. 570, 33 South. 605; Tepper v. Supreme Council, 59 N. J. Eq. 321, 45 Atl. I l l ; Rector v. Drury, 3 Pin. (Wis.) 298. Lineal and collateral consanguinity. Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists be tween persons of whom one is descended in a direct line from the other, as between son, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and so upwards in the direct ascending line; or be tween son, grandson, great-grandson, and so downwards in the direct descending line. Col lateral consanguinity is that which subsists be tween persons who have the same ancestors, but who do not descend (or ascend) one from the other. Thus, father and son are related by lineal consanguinity, uncle and nephew by col lateral consanguinity. 2 Bl. Comm. 203; Mc Dowell v. Addams, 45 Pa. 432; State v. De Hart, 109 La. 570, 33 South. 605; Brown v. Baraboo, 90 Wis. 151, 62 N. W. 921, 30 L. R. A. 320. "Affinity" distinguished. < Consanguinity, denoting blood relationship, is distinguished from "affinity," which is the connection existing in consequence of a marriage, between each of the married persons and the kindred of the other. Tegarden v. Phillips, 14 Ind. App. 27, 42 N. E. 549; Carman v. Newell, 1 Denio (N. Y.) 25; Spear v. Robinson, 29 Me. 545. The moral sense; the faculty of judging the moral qualities of ac tions, or of discriminating between right and wrong; particularly applied to one's percep tion and judgment of the moral qualities of his own conduct, but in a wider sense, de- CONQUISITOR. CONSANGUINEUS. La t CONSANGUINITY. CONSCIENCE.