Conclave

An assembly of
cardinals for the purpose of electing a
pope ; the place where the assembly
is held is also called a conclave, it
derives this name from the fact that
all the windows and doors are locked,
with the exception of a single panel
which admits a gloomy light.

CONCLUSION, practice. Making
the last address to the court or jury.
The party on whom the onus probandi
is cast has the conclusion.

Conclusion, remedies , an estoppel ;
a bar ; the act of a man by which he
has confessed a matter or thing which
he can no longer deny ; as, for example,
the sheriff is concluded by his return
to a writ, and therefore, if upon a
capias he return ccpi corpus , he cannot
afterwards show that lie did not arrest
the defendant, but is concluded by his
return. Vide Plowd. 270, b; 3 Tho.
Co. Litt. 000.

Conclusion to the country, plead-
ing. The tender of an issue to lie tried
by a party, is a formula called the
conclusion to the country .

2. — This conclusion is in the follow-
ing words, when the issue is tendered
by the defendant ; “ And of this the
said C D puts himself upon the country.”
When it is tendered by the plaintiff,
the formula is as follows ; “ And this
the said A B prays may be impiircd
of by the country.” It is held, how-
ever, that there is no material difference |
between those two modes of expression,
and that, tfjxmit «•, lie substituted for
jx'lil quart inquiratory or vice versa ,
the mistake is unimportant. 10 Mod.
160.

3. — When there is an affirmative on
one side, und a negative on the other,
or vice vcrsay the conclusion should be
to the country. T. Kavm. 98 ; Garth.
87 ; 2 Saund. 189; 2 Burr. 1022 ; and
so it is, though the affirmative and
negative be not in express words, but
only tantamount thereto. Co. Litt.

126, a; Yelv. 137; 1 Saund. 103; 1
Chit. PI. 592 ; Com. Dig. Pleader, E
89.

CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE, is
that which cannot be contradicted by
any other evidence ; for example, a
record, unless impeached for fraud, is
conclusive evidence between the parties.

( < >\< ;Ll si M. ink m. law, The
form of an acceptance or conclusion
of a treaty ; as, the treaty was ratified
purely and simply by a conclusum.
It is the name of a decree of the Ger-
manic diet, or of the nulic council.

CONCORD, estates , conveyances ,
practice , is an agreement or supposed
agreement between the parties in levy-
ing a fine of lands, in which the de-
forciant (or he who keeps the other out
of possession,) acknowledges that the
lands in question, arc the right of the
complainant ; and from the acknow-
ledgment or recognition of right thus
made, the party who levies the line is
called the cognisor, and the person to
whom it is levied, the cognisec. 2
Bl. Com. 350; Cruise, Dig. tit. 35, c.
2, s. 33 ; Com. Dig. Fine (E 9.)