KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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Corpus humanum non reeipit aesti mationem. The human body does not ad mit of valuation. Hob. 59. A body of law. A term used to signify a book comprehending several collections of law. There are two principal collections to which this name la given; the Corpus Juris Civilis, and the Corpus Juris Canonici. —Corpus juris canonici. The body of the canon law. A compilation of the canon law, comprising the decrees and canons of the Roman Church, constituting the body of ecclesiastical law of that church.— Corpus juris civilis. The body of the civil law. The system of Ro man jurisprudence compiled and codified under the direction of the emperor Justinian, in A. D. 528-534. This collection comprises the In stitutes, Digest, (or Pandects,) Code, and Novels. The name is said to have been first applied to this collection early in the seventeenth century. chastise ment administered by a master or other per son in authority to one who has committed an offense, for the purpose of curing his faults or bringing him Into proper subjec tion. — Correction, house of. A prison for the reformation of petty or juvenile offenders. CORRECTOR OF THE STAPLE. In old English law. A clerk belonging to the staple, to write and record the bargains of merchants there made. CORREGIDOR. In Spanish law. A magistrate who took cognizance of various misdemeanors, and of civil matters. 2 White, New Recop. 53. CORPUS JURIS. CORRECTION. Discipline; stipulators; joint stipulators. — Correi credendi. law. Joint creditors; creditors xn soltdo. Poth. Obi. pt. 2, c. 4, art. 3, § 11.— Correi debendi. In Scotch law. Two or more persons bound as principal debtors to another. Ersk. Inst. 3, 3, 74. Having a mutual or reciprocal relation, in such sense that the existence of one necessarily implies the ex istence of the other. Father and son are correlative terms. Right and duty are cor relative terms. CORRESPONDENCE. Interchange of written communications. The letters writ ten by a person and the answers written by the one to whom they are addressed. to add weight or credibility to a thing by addi tional and confirming facts or evidence. Still v. State (Tex. Cr. R.) 50 S. W. 355; State v. Hicks, 6 S. D. 325, 60 N. W. 66; Schefter v. Hatch, 70 Hun, 597, 25 N. Y. Supp. 240. The expression "corroborating circumstances" clearly does not mean facts which, independent of a confession, will warrant a conviction; for In the civil and Scotch CORRELATIVE. CORROBORATE. To strengthen; CORREI. Lat. In the civil law. Co

then the verdict would stand not on the con fession, but upon those independent circumstan ces. To corroborate is to strengthen, to confirm by additional security, to add strength. The testimony of a witness is said to be corroborated when it is shown to correspond with the repre sentation of some other witness, or to comport with some facts otherwise known or established. Corroborating circumstances, then, used in ref erence to a confession, are such as serve' to strengthen it, to render it more probable; such, in short, as may serve to impress a jury with a belief in its truth. State v. Guild, 10 N. J. Law, 163, 18 Am. Dec. 404. —Corroborating evidence. Evidence supple mentary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it; additional evidence of a different character to the same point. Gild ersleeve v. Atkinson, 6 N. M. 250, 27 Pac. 477; Mills v. Coram, 93 Va. 815, 22 S. EL 863; Code Civ. Proc. Cal. 1903, § 1839. CORRUPTION. Illegality; a vicious and fraudulent intention to evade the prohibi tions of the law. The act of an official or fiduciary person who unlawfully and wrongfully uses his sta tion or character to procure some benefit for himself or for another person, contrary to duty and the rights of others. U. S. v. John son (C. C.) 26 Fed. 682; State v. Ragsdale, 59 Mo. App. 603; Wight v. Rlndskopf, 43 Wis. 351; Worsham v. Murchison, 66 Ga. 719; U. S. v. Edwards (C. C.) 43 Fed. 67. CORRUPTION OF BLOOD. In English law. This was the consequence of attainder. It meant that the attainted person could neither inherit lands or other hereditaments from his ancestor, nor retain those he al ready had, nor transmit them by descent to any heir, because his blood was considered In law to be corrupted. Avery v. Everett, 110 N. Y. 317, 18 N. E. 148, 1 L. R. A. 264, 6 Am. St. Rep. 368. This was abolished by St. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 106, and 33 & 34 Vict. c. 23, and is unknown in America. Const U. S. art. 3, § 3. A mortuary, thus termed because, when a mortuary became due on the death of a man, the best or sec ond-best beast was, according to custom, offered or presented to the priest, and carried with the corpse. In Wales a corse-present was due upon the death of a clergyman to the bishop of the diocese, till abolished by 12 Anne St. 2, c 6. 2 Bl. Comm. 426. In Saxon law. The morsel of execration. A species of ordeal in use among the Saxons, performed by eating a piece of bread over which the priest had pronounced a certain imprecation. If the accused ate it freely, he was pronounced in nocent ; but, if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt Crabb, CORSELET. ered the body. Ancient armor which cov CORSE-PRESENT. CORSNED. Corruptio optimi est pessima. Corrup tion of the best is worst.