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intent ; and here the lands do not pass 

 by the will, but by the surrender thus 

 made. 



Copyhold inheritances have no collate- 

 ral qualities, which do not concern the 

 descent, as to make them assets to bind 

 the heir, or whereof the wife may be en- 

 dowed, See. They are not extendible in 

 execution, but are within the acts 

 against bankrupts, and the statutes of 

 limitation. 



Copy-AoWer, 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 take them in 

 fee-simple, or fee-tail, for life, years, or at 

 will, according 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 lives. 



Cop?-right, the right which an author 

 may be supposed to have in his own ori- 

 ginal literary compositions; so that no 

 other person, without his leave, may pub- 

 lish or make profit of the copies. When a 

 man, by the exertion of his rational pow- 

 ers, has produced an original work, he 

 has clearly a right to dispose of that iden- 

 tical work as he pleases ; and any attempt 

 to take it from him, or vary the disposi- 

 tion he has made of it, is an invasion of his 

 right of property. Now the identity of a 

 literary composition consists entirely 

 in the sentiment and the language ; the 

 same conceptions, clothed in the same 

 words, must necessarily be the same com- 

 position : 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- 

 ways the 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 

 cither tacitly or expressly given. This 

 consent may, perhaps, be tacitly given, 

 when an author permits his work to be 

 published without any reserve of right, 

 and without stamping on it anv marks of 

 ownership ; it is then a present to the 

 public, like the building of a church, or 

 the laying out a new highway : but in 

 case of a bargain for a single impression, 

 or a total sale or gift of the copy-right ; 

 in the one case the reversion hath been 

 thought to continue in the original pro- 

 prietor ; in the other, the whole proper- 

 ty, with its exclusive rights, to be perpe- 

 tually transferred to the grantee. On the 

 other hand it is urg^d, that though the 

 exclusive right of the manuscript, and all 



which it contains, belongs undoubtedly to 

 the owner before it is printed or pub- 

 lished, yet from the instant of publication 

 the exclusive right of an author, or his 

 assigns, to the sole communication of his 

 ideas, immediately vanishes and evapo- 

 rates, as being a right of too subtle and 

 unsubstantial a nature to become the 

 subject of property at the common law, 

 and only capable of being guarded by posi- 

 tive statute and special provisions of the 

 magistrate. 



COR Caroli, in astronomy, an extra- 

 constellated star in the northern hemi- 

 sphere, situated between the Coma Bere- 

 nices and Ursa Major, so called by Dr. 

 Halley in honour of King Charles. 



COR Hydr*, a fixed star of the first 

 magnitude, in the constellation of Hy- 

 dra. 



COR Leonis, or Regulus, in astronomy, 

 a fixed star of the first magnitude, in the 

 constellation Leo. 



CORAC1AS, the roller, in natural his- 

 tory, a genus of birds of the order Pica:. 

 Generic character : bill straight, bending 

 towards the tip, sharp edged, the base 

 naked of feathers ; tongue cartilaginous 

 and bifid ; legs short ; feet formed for 

 walking, three toes before and one be- 

 hind, divided throughout. There are, 

 according to Gmelin, twenty -five species ; 

 though Latham enumerates but sixteen. 

 The following is the principal. C. gar- 

 rulus, or the common roller. These birds 

 are about the size of a jay, and abound in 

 several parts of Europe. They are found 

 in the latitudes between Denmark and 

 Africa; and in Sicily and Malta, as well 

 as in Germany, are sold in the shops and 

 markets for food. Being birds of passage, 

 they are supposed to spend the winter in 

 Africa, as they are stated to be seen at Se- 

 negal not unfrequently in flocks. They 

 build in trees, though sometimes in holes 

 in the ground, and feed on insects, worms, 

 frogs, nuts, and corn. Their flesh has very 

 much the taste of a turtle. Its name is de- 

 rived from a noise made by it similar to 

 chattering. 



CORAL. By this designation we gene- 

 rally understand that substance of which 

 a variety of ornaments are made, consi- 

 dering it as a concrete substance, and sup- 

 posing it to be a marine plant. This was 

 the opinion entertained for centuries, from 

 the time even of Pliny to the beginning of 

 the seventeenth century, when various 

 circumstances gave rise to doubts as to 

 the formation of coral. Monsieur de 

 Peyssounel of Marseilles observed, that 

 the ramifications were inhabited by a nu- 



