COMPENSATORY DAMAGZ.— A• term used in civil law to define such damage as' may have been estimated as a fair equivalent for the injury received.
Compursmar.— (a) Legal right and authority to act; (b) also used in regard to evidence to denote its legal fitness to be heard.
C.omplunourr.— The plaintiff in, or one who commences, a legal action against another, or in whose behalf a criminal prosecution is instituted. The claim for relief upon which such an action is brought is commonly known as the complaint.
CorramisioN.— (a) The decision or finding in a case; (b) the end of a pleading; (c) an estoppel or bar by which one is held to the position which he has taken. A 'conclusion of fact" is a decision on the part of a judge or referee as to the actual facts in the matter at issue; a "conclusion of law" is a similar decision in Which thelegal rights and obligations of the parties to the action resulting from the conclusion of fact are clearly specified.
Coria.usivs EVIDENCR.— A term applied to testimony that possesses such weight as to preclude any contradiction of the fact inAuestion.
A term in civil law usually applied to the litigation, or opportunity for litigation, which exists when several creditors, acting adversely to one another, claim the right to share in en estate, the object being to make one accounting cover all the claims against the fund.
Coscusszom.— Used in civil law as a synonym for extortion. CONDONATION.— Used to denote an act of remission by which a husband or wife pardons a matrimonial offense which one knows that the other has committed by per mitting the guilty to return to all It is by such an act that the innocent party all right to seek a remedy for the offense in question.