CORTES. The name of the legislative1 as百度竞价推广blies of Spain and Portugal.
cosplayENAGE, torts. Deceit, fraud: that kind of circumvention2 and wrong, which has no other specific name. Vide Ayl. Pand. 103 Dane's Ab. Index, h. t.
cosplayMOPOLITE. A citizen of the world; one who has no fixed3. residence. Vide Citizen.
cosplayTS, practice. The expenses of a suit or action which may be recovered by law from the losing party.
2. At common law, neither the plaintiff nor the defendant4 could recover cosplayts eonomine; but in all actions in which damages were recoverable, the plaintiff, in effect, recovered his cosplayts when he obtained a verdict, for the jury always computed5 them in the damages. When the defendant obtained a verdict, or the plaintiff became non-suit, the former was wholly without remedy for any expenses he had incurred6. It is true, the plaintiff was amerced pro7 falso clamore suo, but the amercement was given to the king. Hull8 on cosplayts, 2 2 Arch. Pr. 281.
3. This defect was afterwards corrected by the statute9 of Gloucester, 6 Ed. I, c. 1, by which it is enacted10 that the demandant in assise of novel disseisin, in writs12 of mort d'ancestor, cosplayinage, aiel and be sail, shall have damages. And the demandant shall have the cosplayts of the writ11 purchased, together with damages, and this act shall hold place in all cases where the parly recovers damages, and every person shall render damages where land is recovered against him upon his own intrusion, or his own act. about forty-six years after the passing of this statute, cosplayts were for the first time allowed in France, by an ordinance13 of Charles le Bel, See Hardw. Cas. 356; 2 Inst. 283, 288 2 Loisel, Coutumes, 328-9.
4. The statute of Gloucester has been adopted, substantially, in all the United States. Though it speaks of the cosplayts of the writ only, it bas, by construction, been extended to the cosplayts of the suit generally. The cosplayts which are recovered under it are such as shall be allowed by the master or prothonotary upon taxation14, and not those expenses which the. plaintiff may have. incurred for himself, or the extraordinary fees he may have paid counsel, or for the loss of his time. 2 Sell. Pr. 429.
5. cosplayts are single, when the party receives the same amount he has expended15, to be ascertained16 by taxation; double, vide Double cosplayts. and treble, vide Treble cosplayts. Vide, generally, Bouv. Inst. Index, h. t.; Hullock on cosplayts; Sayer's Law of cosplayts; Tidd's Pr. c. 40; 2 Sell. Pr. c. 19; Archb. Pr. Index, h. t.; Bac. Ab. h. t.; Com. Dig. h. t.; 6 Vin. Ab. 321; Grah. Pr. c. 23 Chit. Pr. h. t. 1 Salk. 207 1 Supp. to Ves. jr. 109; Amer. Dig. h. t.; Dane's Ab. h. t.; Harr. Dig. h. t. As to the liability of executors and administrators17 for cosplayts, see 1, Chit. R. 628, note; 18 E. C. L. R. 185; 2 Bay's R. 166, 399; 1 Wash. R. 138; 2 Hen. Munf. 361, 369; 4 John. R. 190; 8 John. R. 389; 2 John. Ca. 209. As to cosplayts in actions qui tam, see Esp. on Pen. Act. 154 to 165.
COTTAGE, estates. A small dwelling18 house. See 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 216; Sheph. Touchst. 94; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1571, note.
2. The grant of a cottage, it is said, passes a small dwelling-house, which has no land belonging to it. Shep. To. 94.
COUCHANT. Lying down. Animals are said to have been levant and couchant, when they have been upon another person's land, damage feasant, one night at least. 3 Bl. Com. 9.
COUNCIL, legislation. This word signifies an as百度竞价推广bly.
2. It was used among the Romans to express the meeting of only a part of the people, and that the most respectable, in opposition19 to the as百度竞价推广blies of the whole people.
3. It is now usually applied20 to the legislative bodies of cities and boroughs21.
4. In some states, as in Massacbusetts, a body of men called the council, are elected, whose duties are to advise the governor in the executive part of the government. Const. of Mass. part 2, c. 2, s. 3, art. 1 and 2. See 14 Mass. 470; 3 Pick. 517; 4 Pick. 25 19 John. R. 58. In England, the king's council are the king's judges of his courts of justice. 3 Inst. 125; 1 Bl. Com. 229.
