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COPARCENERS

COPARCENERS. Persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as an entire estate, 2 Bl. Comm. 187. COPARTICEPS. In old English law. A coparcener. COPARTNER. One who is a partner with one or more other persons; a member of a partnership. COPARTNERSHIP. A partnership. COPARTNERY. In Scotch law. The contract of copartnership. A contract by which the several partners agree concern ing the communication of loss or gain, aris ing from the subject of the contract. Bell. COPE. A custom or tribute due to the crown or lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire; also a hill, or the roof and covering of a house; a church vestment. COPEMAN, or COPESMAN. A chap man, (g. v.) COPESMATE. A merchant; a partner in merchandise. COPIA. Lat. In civil and old Eng lish law. Opportunity or means of access. In old English law. A copy. Copia Ubelli, the copy of a libel. Reg. Orig. 58. — Copia libelli deliberanda. The name of a writ that lay where a man could not get a copy of a libel at the hands of a spiritual judge, to have the same delivered to him. Reg. Orig. 51.— Copia vera. In Scotch practice. A true copy. Words written at the top of copies of in struments. In English law. A crop or cock of grass, hay, or corn, divided into titheable portions, that it may be more fair ly and justly tithed. COPPER AND SCALES. See MANCI PATIO. COPPICE, or COPSE. A small wood, consisting of underwood, which may be cut at twelve or fifteen years' growth for fuel. COPROLALIA. In medical jurispru dence. A disposition or habit of using ob scene language, developing unexpectedly in the particular individual or contrary to his previous history and habits, recognized as a sign of insanity or of aphasia. COPULA. The corporal consummation of marriage. Copula, (in logic,) the link be tween subject and predicate contained in the verb. Copulatio verbornm indicat accepta tionem in eodem sensn. Coupling of COPPA.

words together shows that they are to be understood in the same sense. 4 Bacon's Works, p. 26; Broom, Max. 588. COPULATIVE TERM. One which la placed between two or more others to join them together. COPY. The transcript or double of an original writing; as the copy of a patent, charter, deed, etc. Exemplifications are copies verified by the great seal or by the seal of a court. West Jersey Traction Co. v. Board of Public Works, 57 N. J. Law, 313, 30 Atl. 581. Examined copies are those which have been compared with the original or with an official record thereof. Office copies are those made by officers In trusted with the originals and authorized for that purpose. Id., Stamper v. Gay, 3 Wyo. 322, 23 Pac. 69. COPYHOLD. A species of estate at will, or customary estate in England, the only vis ible title to which consists of the copies of the court rolls, which are made out by the steward of the manor, on a tenant's being admitted to any parcel of land, or tenement belonging to th£ manor. It is an estate at the will of the lord, yet such a will as Is agreeable to the custom of the manor, which customs are preserved and evidenced by the rolls of the several courts baron, in which they are entered. 2 Bl. Comm. 95. In a larger sense, copyhold is said to import every customary tenure, (that is, every ten ure pending on the particular custom of a manor,) as opposed to free socage, or free hold, which may now (since the abolition of knight-service) be considered as the gen eral or common-law tenure of the country. 1 Steph. Comm. 210. —Copyhold commissioners. Commissioners appointed to carry into effect various acts of parliament, having for their principal ob jects the compulsory commutation of mano rial burdens and restrictions, (fines, heriots, rights to timber and minerals, etc.,) and the compulsory enfranchisement of copyhold lands. 1 Steph. Comm. 643; Elton. Copyh.— Copy holder. A tenant by copyhold tenure, (by copy of court-roll.) 2 Bl. Comm. 95.— Privi leged copyholds. Those copyhold estates which are said to be held according to the cus tom of the manor, and not at the will of the lord, as common copyholds ar-e. They include customary freeholds and ancient demesnes. 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 709, § 919. The right of literary property as recognized and sanctioned by positive law. A right granted by statute to the author or originator of certain liter ary or artistic productions, whereby he is invested, for a limited period, with the sole and exclusive privilege of multiplying copies of the same and publishing and sell ing them. In re Rider, 16 R. I. 271, 15 Atl. 72; Mott Iron Works v. Clow, 83 Fed. 316, 27 C. a A. 250; Palmer y. De Witt, 47 COPYRIGHT.