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COR 



intent; and here the lands do not pass 

 b\ the will, but by the surrender thus 

 made. 



Copyhold inheritances have no collate- 

 ral qualities, which do not concern the 

 t, as to make them assets to bind 

 the lieir, or whereof the wife may be en- 

 dowed, &c. They are not extendible in 

 execution, but are within the acts 

 against banknipts, and the statutes of 

 limitation. 



Ci'T-/iofrfer, one who is admitted tenant 

 of lands, or tenements within a manor, 

 which, time out of mind, by use and cus- 

 tom of the manor, have been demisable 

 and demised to such as will lake them in 

 ; :[)le, or fee-tail, for life, years, or at 

 u ill, aecording to the custom of the manor 

 by copy of court-roll. But is generally 

 where the tenant has such estate either in 

 fee or for three 1 



l'ni'\-ri:r/it, the right wnich an author 

 may be supposed to have in his own origi- 

 nal literary compositions; so that no other 

 person, without his leave, may publish or 

 make profit of the copies. \Vhni a man, 

 by the exertion of his rational powers, has 

 produced an original work, he has clearly 

 a right to dispose of that identical work as 

 he pleases; and any attempt to take it from 

 him, or vary the disposition he has made 

 of it, is an invasion of his right of pro- 

 perty. Now the identity of a literary 

 composition consists entirely in the senti- 

 ment and the language ; the same con- 

 ceptions, clothed in the same words, 

 must necessarily be the same composi- 

 tion : and whatever method be taken of 

 conveying that composition to the ear, or 

 to the eye of another, by recital, by- 

 writing, or by printing, in any number of 

 copies, or at any period of time, it is al- 

 :he identical work of the author 

 which is so conveyed : and no other man 

 (it hath been thought) can have a right to 

 convey or transfer it, without his consent 

 either tacitly orexprcssly given. This con- 

 sent may, perhaps, be tacitly given, when 

 an authorpermits his work to be published 

 without any reserve of right, and without 

 stamping on it any marks of ownership ; it 

 is then a present to the public, like the 

 building of a church, or th,- !a\ ing out a 

 new highway : but in case of a bargain for 

 a single impression, or a total saie or gift 

 of the copy-right ; in the one cuse the re- 

 version hath been thought to continue in 

 the original proprietor; in the other the 

 whole property, with it- rights, 



to be perpetually tran-.fi -rp I to the gran- 

 tee. On the other hand it is urged, that 

 the cxrl'isive right of the manu- 



script, and all which it contains, belongs 

 undoubtedly to the owner before it is 

 printed or published, \et frum the in- 

 stant of publication the exclusive right of 

 an author, or his assigns, to the sole com- 

 munication of his ideas immediately va- 

 nishes and evaporates, as being a right 

 of too subtle and unsubstantial a nature 

 to become the subject of property at the 

 common law, and only capable oi 

 guarded by positive statute and special 

 provision* Of the magistrate. 



COR Caroli, in astronomy, an extra- 

 constellated star in the northern 

 sphere, situated between the Coma Bere- 

 nices and t rsa Major, so called by Dr. 

 Halley in honour of King Charles. 



COR Hydr.e, a fixed star of the first 

 magnitude, in the constellation of Hy- 

 dra. 



COR I^eonis,or Regitlu.i, in astronomy, 

 a fixed star of the first magnitude, in the 

 constellation Leo. 



COKACIAS, the nflcr, in natural his- 

 tory, a genus of birds of the ordi 

 Generic character: bill straight, bending 

 towards the tip, sharp cdgv-d, tin 

 nuked of feathers; tongue cartilaginous 

 and bifid; legs short; feet formed tor 

 walkmg,thrce toes before and one behind, 

 divided tliroughout. There are, accord- 

 ing to (.imelin, twenty -five species ; though 

 Latham enumerates but sixteen. The fol- 

 lowing is the principal. C. garrulus, or 

 the common roller. These birds are about 

 the size of a jay, and abound in several 

 parts of Europe. The\ are found in the 

 latitudes between Denmark and Africa ; 

 and in Sicily and Malta, as well as in Ger- 

 many, are sold in the shops and markets 

 for food. Being birds of passage, they 

 are supposed to spend the winter in Afri- 

 ca, as they are stated to be seen at Sene- 

 gal not unfrequently in flocks. Thev 

 build in trees, though sometimes in holes 

 in the ground, and feed on inserts, u onus, 

 frogs, nuts, and corn. Their Hesh has 

 much the taste* of a turtle. Its 

 name is derived from a noise made by it 

 similar to chattering. 



C<i|!.\l.. B\ tliis designation we gene- 

 rally understand that substance of which a 

 variety of ornaments are made, considering 

 it as a concrete substance, and supposing 

 it to be a marine plant. This was the opi- 

 nion entertained for centuries, from the 

 time even of Pliny to the beginning of the 

 seventeenth century ,when various circum- 

 stances gave rise to doubts as to the for- 

 mation of coral. Monsieur de Peyssounel 

 observed, that the ramific-i- 

 t ions were inhabited bv a numerous tribr of 



