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Colza – Common Pleas

Colza

a variety of cabbage. Oil is extracted from the seeds and sometimes burned in lamps.

Comayagua

a city of Honduras, Central America, situated in a fertile valley, 1,935 fect above the sea, on the Rio Humuya, 190 miles E. of Guatemala.

Founded in 1540, it has a handsome cathedral and a college, and before 1880 was the capital of the republic. Pop. about 3,100.

Comedietta

a dramatic composition of the comedy class, but not so much elaborated as a regular comedy, and generally consisting of one or at most two acts.

Comedones

a name applied to the little cylinders of sebaceous and epithelial substance which are apt to accumulate in the follicles of the skin and to appear on the surface as small round black spots. When squeezed out they have the appearance of minute maggots or grubs, with black heads, and thence have derived their name.

Comitia

the ordinary and legal assemblies of the Roman citizens for the passing of laws, election of magistrates and officers, etc.

Commensal

messmate; applied in zoölogy to animals which live on or in other animals for part or the whole of their life, simply sharing the food of their host without being parasite on him; thus the pea-crabs live within the cavity of shell-fish, and find their food in the water introduced for the benefit of their host.

Commensurable

an appellation given to such quantities or magnitudes as can be measured by one and the same common measure. Commensurable numbers are such as can be measured or divided by some other number without any remainder; such are 12 and 18, as being measured by 6 or 3. a

Commerce

CHAMBERS OF. See CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Commercial Law

the law which regulates commercial affairs among the merchants of different countries or among merchants generally. It is derived from the different maritime codes of mediæval Europe, the imperial code of Rome, international law, and the custom of merchants. Lord Mansfield (1704-1793) was the first great exponent of commercial law in Great Britain.

Commissure

an anatomical term applied to nervous connections between adjacent parts of the nervous system.

Though it is not always used in quite the same way, the general signification of the term, and the physiological import of the structure, is that of a uniting bridge.

Common Council

the council of a city or corporate town, empowered to COMMONER make by-laws for the government of the duly elected according to law in precitizens. term applied to all citizens except the COMMONER, in Great Britain, a term applied to all citizens except the hereditary nobility.

Common Pleas

in law, pleas brought by private persons against private persons, or by the government, when the cause of action is of a civil nature.

In many States of the United States it is a court having jurisdiction generally in civil actions. In England the old in the High Court of Justice.