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COPYRIGHT

CORODY

N. T. 536, 7 Am. Rep. 480; Keene v. Wheat ley, 14 Fed. Cas. 185. An incorporeal right, being the exclusive privilege of printing, reprinting, selling, and publishing his own original work, which the law allows an author. Wharton. Copyright is the exclusive right of the owner of an intellectual production to multiply and dispose of copies; the sole right to the copy, •r to copy it The word is used indifferently to signify the statutory and the common-law right; or one right is sometimes called "copy right" after publication, or statutory copyright; the other copyright before publication, or com mon-law copyright. The word is also used syn onymously with "literary property;" thus, the exclusive right of the owner publicly to read or exhibit a work is often called "copyright" This is not strictly correct Drone, Copyr. 100. International copyright is the right of a subject of one country to protection against the republication in another country of a work which he originally published in his own country. Sweet CORAAGIXTM, or CORAAGE. Meas ures of corn. An unusual and extraordi nary tribute, arising only on special occa sions. They are thus distinguished from services. Mentioned in connection with hidage and carvage. Cowell. CORAM. Lat Before; in presence of. Applied to persons only. Townsh. PL 22. —Coram domino rege. Before our lord the king. Coram domino rege ubicumque tunc fu erit Angltce, before our lord the king wherever he shall then be in England.—Coram ipso rege. Before the king himself. The old name of the court of king's bench, which was origi nally held before the king in person. 3 Bl. Comm. 41.—Coram nobis. Before us our selves, (the king, t. e., in the king's or queen's bench.) Applied to writs of error directed to another branch of the same court, e. g., from the full bench to the court at nisi prius. 1 Archb. Pr. K. B. 234.—Coram non judice. In presence of a person not a judge. When a suit is brought and determined in a court which has no jurisdiction in the matter, then it is said to be coram non judice, and the judgment is void. Manufacturing Co. v. Holt, 51 W. Va. 352, 41 S. E. 351.—Coram paribus. Before the peers or freeholders. The attestation of deeds, like all other solemn transactions, was orig inally done only coram paribus. 2 Bl. Comm. 307. Coram paribus de vicineto, before the peers or freeholders of the neighborhood. Id. 315. Coram sectatoribns. Before the suit ors. Cro. Jac. 582.—Coram vobis. Before you. A writ of error directed by a court of re view to the court which tried the cause, to cor rect an error in fact. 3 Md. 325; 3 Steph. Comm. 642. CORD. A measure of wood, containing 128 cubic feet Kennedy v. Railroad Co., 67 Barb. (N. T.) 177. CO-RESPONDENT. A person summon ed to answer a bill, petition, or libel, to gether with another respondent Now chief ly used to designate the person charged with adultery with the respondent in a suit for divorce for that cause, and joined as a de

fendant with such party. Lowe ,y. Bennett, 27 Misc. Rep. 356, 58 N. T. Supp. 8a CORIUM FORISFACERE. To forfeit one's skin, applied to a person condemned to be whipped; anciently the punishment of a servant Corium perdere, the same. Cori um redimere, to compound for a whipping. Wharton. CORN. In English law, a general term for any sort of grain; but in America it is properly applied only to maize. Sullins v. State, 53 Ala. 476; Kerrick v. Van Dusen, 32 Minn. 317, 20 N. W. 228; Com. v. Pine, 3 Pa. Law J. 412. In the memorandum clause in policies of insurance it includes pease and beans, but not rice. Park, Ins. 112; Scott v. Bourdillion, 2 Bos. & P. (N. R.) 213. —Corn laws. A species of protective tariff formerly in existence in England, imposing im port-duties on various kinds of grain. The corn laws were abolished in 1846.—Corn rent. A rent in wheat or malt paid on college leases by direction of St 18 Eliz. c 6. 2 Bl. Comm. 609. CORNAGE. A species of tenure in Eng land, by which the tenant was bound to blow a horn for the sake of alarming the country on the approach of an enemy. It was a spe cies of grand serjeanty. Bac. Abr. "Ten ure," N. CORNER. A combination among the dealers in a specific commodity, or outside capitalists, for the purpose of buying up the greater portion of that commodity which is upon the market or may be brought to market, and holding the same back from sale, until the demand shall so far outrun the limited supply as to advance the price abnormally. Kirkpatrick v. Bonsall, 72 Pa. 158; Wright v. Cudahy, 168 111. 86, 48 N. E. 39; Kent v. Miltenberger, 13 Mo. App. 506. In surveying. An angle made by two boundary lines; the common end of two boundary lines, which run at an angle with each other. CORNET. A commissioned officer of cav alry, abolished in England in 1871, and not existing in the United States army. CORODIO HABENDO. The name of a writ to exact a corody of an abbey or relig ious house. CORODIUM. In old English law. A cor ody. CORODY. In old English law. A sum of money or allowance of meat, drink, and clothing due to the crown from the abbey or other religious house, whereof it was found er, towards the sustentation of such one of its servants as is thought fit to receive it It differs from a pension, in that it was al lowed towards the maintenance of any of