KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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COUPONS

COUNTY

COUNTY. The name given to the prin- avis County, 40 Iowa, 295; Boone County v. Mutchler, 137 Ind. 140, 36 N. E. 534.—County commissioners. Officers of a county charged with a variety of administrative and executive duties, but principally with the management of the financial affiairs of the county, its police regulations, and its corporate business. Some times the local laws give them limited judicial powers. In some states they are called "super visors." Com. v. Krickbaum, 199 Pa. 351, 49 Atl. 68.—County corporate. A city or town, with more or less territory annexed, having the privilege to be a county of itself, and not to be comprised in any other county; such as Lon don, York, Bristol, Norwich, and other cities in England. 1 Bl. Comm. 120.—County court. A court of high antiquity in England, incident to the jurisdiction of the sheriff. It is not a court of record, but may hold pleas of debt or damages, under the value of forty shillings. The freeholders of the county (anciently termed the "suitors" of the court) are the real judges in this court, and the sheriff is the ministerial officer. See 3 Bl. Comm. 35, 36; 3 Steph. Comm. 395. But in modern English law the name is appropriated to a system of tribunals established by the statute 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95, having a limited jurisdiction, principally for the recovery of small debts. It is also the name of certain tribunals of limited jurisdiction in the county of Middlesex, established under the stat ute 22 Geo. II. c. 33. In American law. The name is used in many of the states to designate the ordinary courts of record having jurisdic tion for trials at nisi prius. Their powers gen erally comprise ordinary civil jurisdiction, also the charge and care of persons and estates com ing within legal guardianship, a limited crim inal jurisdiction, appellate jurisdicton over jus tices of the peace, etc.—County jail. A place of incarceration for the punishment 6f minor of fenses and the custody of transient prisoners, where the ignominy of confinement is devoid of the infamous character which an imprisonment in the state jail or penitentiary carries with it. U. S. v. Greenwald (D. C.) 64 Fed. 8 —County officers. Those whose general authority and jurisdiction are confined within the limits of the county in which they are appointed, who are appointed in and for a particular county, and whose duties apply only to that county, and through whom the county performs its usual political functions. State v. Burns. 38 Pla. 367, 21 South. 290; State v. Glenn, 7 Heisk. (Tenn.) 473; In re Carpenter, 7 Barb. (N. Y.) 34; Philadelphia v. Martin, 125 Pa. 583, 17 Atl. 507.—County palatine. A term bestowed npon certain counties in England, the lords of

which in former times enjoyed especial privi leges. They might pardon treasons, murders, and felonies. All writs and indictments ran in their names, as in other counties in the king's; and all offenses were said to be done against their peace, and hot, as in other places, contra pacem domim regis. But these privileges have in modern times nearly disappeared.—County rate. In English law. An imposition levied on the occupiers of lands, and applied to many miscellaneous purposes, among which the most important are those of defraying the- expenses connected with prisons, reimbursing to private parties the costs they have incurred in prosecut ing public offenders, *and defraying the expenses of the county police. See 15 & 16 Vict, c, 81.— County road. One which lies wholly within one county, and which is thereby distinguished from a state road, which is a road lying in two or more counties. State v. Wood County, 17 Ohio, 186.—County-seat. A county-seat or county-town is the chief town of a county, where the county buildings and courts are lo cated and the county business transacted. Wil liams v. Reutzel, 60 Ark. 155, 29 S. W. 374; In re Allison, 13 Colo. 525, 22 Pac. 820, 10 L. R. A. 790, 16 Am. St. Rep. 224 ;' Whallon v. Grid ley, 51 Mich. 503, 16 N. W. 876.—County ses sions. In England, the court of general quar ter sessions of the peace held in every county once in every quarter of a year. Mozley & Whitley.—County-town. The county-seat; the town in which the seat of government of the county is located. State v. Cates, 105 Tenn. 441, 58 S. W. 649.—County warrant. An order or warrant drawn by some duly authoriz ed officer of the county, directed to the county treasurer and directing him to pay out of the funds of the county a designated sum of money to a named individual, or to his order or to bearer. Savage v. Mathews, 98 Ala. 535, 13 South. 328; Crawford v. Noble County, 8 Okl. 450, 58 Pac. 616; People v. Rio Grande Coun ty, 11 Colo. App. 124, 52 Pac. 748.—Foreign county. Any county having a judicial and mu nicipal organization separate from that of the county where matters arising in the former county are called in question, though both may lie within the same state or country. Interest and dividend cer tificates; also those parts of a commercial instrument which are to be cut, and which are evidence of something connected with the contract mentioned in the instrument. They are generally attached to certificates of loan, where the Interest is payable at par ticular periods, and, when the Interest is paid, they are cut off and delivered to the payer. Wharton. Coupons are written contracts for the pay ment of a definite sum of money on a given day, and being drawn and executed in a form and mode for the purpose, that they may be separat ed from the bonds and other instruments to which they are usually attached, it is held that they are negotiable and that a suit may be maintained on them without the necessity of producing the bonds. Each matured coupon up on a negotiable bond is a separable promise, distinct from the promises to pay the bonds or the other coupons, and gives rise to a separate cause of action. Aurora v. West, 7 Wall. 88, 19 L. Ed. 42. —Coupon bonds. Bonds to which are at tached coupons for the several successive in stallments of interest to maturity. Benwell v. Newark, 55 N. J. Eq. 260, 36 Atl. 668; Ten nessee Bond Cases, 114 U. S. 663, 5 Sup. Ct 974, 29 L. Ed. 281.—Coupon notes. Promis sory notes with coupons attached, the coupons being notes for interest written at the bottom COUPONS.