CON 
Other care perhaps 
May have diverted from continual watch 
Our great forbidder. Milton. 
[In law.] A continual claim is mad,e from time to time, 
yvithin every year and day, to land or other thing, which, 
ip feme refpect, we cannot attain without danger. For 
example, if I be dilleifed of land, into which, though I 
have right into it, I dare not enter for fear of beating : 
it behooveth me to hold on my right of entry to the belt 
opportunity of me and mine heir, by approaching as near 
it as I can, once every year as long as' I live ; and lo I 
fave thc rinl't of entry to my heir. Cowell. 
CONTINUALLY, adv. Without paufe ; without in¬ 
terruption. . Without ceafing.—Why do not all animals 
continually increafe in bignefs, during the whole fpace of. 
tl. _:r lives? Bentley. 
CONTI'..UANCE,/! Succefilon uninterrupted.*—The 
brute immediately regards his own prefervation, or the 
continuance of his fpecies. Addifon. —Permanence in one 
Fate.— Continuance of evil doth in itfelf increafe evil. 
Sidney. —Abode in a place. Duration ; laltingnefs.—That 
pleafure is not of greater continuance , which ariles from 
the prejudice or malice of its hearers. Addifon. —Perfe¬ 
verance.—To them who, by patient continuance in well¬ 
doing, feek for glory, and honour, and immortality, eter¬ 
nal life. Romans, ii. 7.—Progreflion.of time.—In thy book 
all my members were written, which in continuance were 
falhioned. Pj'alm. cxxxix.-t6,—-Refinance to reparation 
of parts ; continuity.—Wool, tow, cotton, and raw filk,. 
have, befides the defire of continuance in regard of the 
tenuity of their thread, a greedinefs of moifture. Bacon. 
CONTINUANCE, inlaw, is the continuing of a eaufe 
in court, by an entry upon the records there for that pur- 
pofe. There is a continuance of the allize, See. And 
continuance of a writ or a-' bon is from one term to ano¬ 
ther, in cafe where the Iheriff hath not returned a for¬ 
mer writ, ifliied out in the laid aCtion. Kited. 262. 
Continuances and elfoins are amendable upon the roll, 
at any time before judgment; they are the aCCs of the 
court: and at common law they may amend their own 
aCts before judgment, though in another term; but 
their judgments are only amendable in the lame term 
wherein they are given. 2 Lev. 431. Upon an original, 
a term or two or three terms may be mefne between the 
teFe and the return: and this lhall be a good continu¬ 
ance; for the defendant is not at any prejudice by it, 
and the plaintiff may give a day to the defendant beyond 
the common day, if he will. But a continuance by ca¬ 
pias ought to be made from term to term, and there 
cannot be any mefne term, becaufe the defendant ought 
not to Fay fo .long in prifon. 2 Danv. Air. 150. If a man 
recover upon demurrer, or by default, &c. and a writ of 
inquiry of damages is awarded, there ought to be conti¬ 
nuances between the FrF and fecond judgment, other- 
wife it will be a difcontinuance ; for the firF is but an 
award, and not complete, till the fecond judgment, up¬ 
on the return of the writ of inquiry of damages, if the 
plaintiff be nenfuit, by which the defendant is to reco¬ 
ver coFs ; if the plaintiff will not enter his continuances, 
on purpofe to fave the coFs, the defendant Fiall be buf¬ 
fered to enter them. Cro.Jac.2t6. The courfe cf the 
court of king’s-bench is to enter no continuance upon 
the roll, till after ilfue or demurrer, and then to enter 
the continuance of all upon the back, before judgment: 
and if it is not entered, it is error. Trin. 16 Jar. B. R. 
CONTINUAN'DO, in law, is ufed in a fpecial decla¬ 
ration of trefpafs, when the plaintiff'would recover da¬ 
mages for leveral trefpaffes in the fame aCtion : and to 
avoid multiplicity of fuits, a man may in one aCtion of 
trefpafs recover damages for many trefpaffes, laying the 
FrF to be done with a continuando to the whole time, in 
which the reF of the trefpaffes were done ; which is in 
this form: Continuando (by continuing the trefpafs 
afore laid, &c, from the day aforefaid, &c.) until fuch a 
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da} r , including the laff trefpafs. Terms c!e Ley. In tref¬ 
pafs with a continuando of divers things, though of lome 
of thole things there could be no continuando, yet it 
fhall be good for thofe things for which the continuando 
could be, and not for the others : but if the continuando 
had been particularly of fuch. things whereof a continu¬ 
ando could not be, then it had been nought. 3 Lev. 94. 
Every day’s trefpafs is laid to be a feveral trefpafs; 
though .a-continuando may not be of men’s continuing 
a trefpafs day and night, for fome time together; for 
mankind muF take fome reF : where cattle trefpafs upon 
ground, they are continually trefpaffing night and day, 
and therefore the continuando in that cafe is good. 1 Lill r 
Abr. 307. Trefpafs for breaking an houfe with a conti- 
.nuando, is good ; and until & re-entry is made, the conti¬ 
nuation of the poffeflion, is a continuing of the trefpafs. 
Lutto. 1312. 
CONTI'NUATfC, adj. [ continuatus , Lat.] Immediately 
united.—We are of him and in him, even as though our 
very flefli and bones fhould be made contiiiuate with his. 
Hooker. — Uninterrupted; unbroken. — A clear Body 
broken to fmall pieces produceth white ; and becometh 
moft black while it is continuate and undivided, as we fee 
in deep waters and thick glaffes. Peacham. 
CONTI'NUATELY, adv. With continuity ; without 
interruption.—-The water afeends gently, and by inter- 
millions ;. but it falls continuately dead, with force. Wilkins. 
CONTINUA'TION, f. Protraction, or fucceflion un¬ 
interrupted,—-Thefe things muF needs be the works of 
Providence, for the continuation of the fpecies, and up¬ 
holding the world. Ray .—The Roman poem is but the 
fecond part of the Ilias; a continuation of the fame Fory. 
Dry den. 
' CONTI'NUATIVE,yi An expreFlon noting perma¬ 
nence or duration.—To thefe may be added continuatives s 
as, Rome remains to this day ; which includes at lea ft 
two propofitions, viz. Rome was, and Rome is. Watts. 
CONTINUA'TOR,yi He that continues or keeps up 
the feries or fucceflion.—It teems injurious to Providence 
to ordain a way of production which fliould deftroy the 
producer, or contrive the continuation of the fpecies by 
the deftruCtion of the continuator. Brown. 
To CONTI'NUE, v. n. [ continuer, Fr. continuo, Lat.] 
To remain in the fame Fate, or place.—The multitude 
continue with me now three days, and have nothing to 
eat. Matthew, xv. 32.—To laft ; to be durable.—Thy 
kingdom lhall not continue. 1 Samuel, Am. 14.*—For here 
have we no continuing city, but we feek one to come. He¬ 
brews, xili. 14.—To perfevere.—If ye continue in my word',. 
then are ye my difciples indeed. John , viii. 31. 
Down rufli’d the rain 
Impetuous, and continued till the earth 
No more was feen. Milton .. 
To CONT'INUE, v. a. To protraCi, or-hold without 
interruption.—O continue thy loving kindnefs unto them. 
Pj'alm, xxxvi. 10.—To unite without a chafm, or inter¬ 
vening fubFance.—The ufe of the navel is to continue 
the infant unto the mother, and by the veffels thereof-to 
convey its aliments and fuFenance. Brown. 
The dark abyfs, whole boiling gulf 
Tamely endur’d a bridge of wond’rous length, 
From hell continued, reaching th’ utmoft orb 
Of this frail world. Milton. 
CONTPNUEDLY, adv. Without interruption; with¬ 
out cealing.—By perfeverance, I do not underFand a con- 
tinuedly uniform, equal courfe of obedience,, and fuch as is 
not interrupted with the leaF aCt of lin. Norris.. 
CONTPNUER, f. Having the power of perfeverance. 
.—I would my horfe had the ipeed of your tongue, and fo 
pood a continuer. S/iakeJpeare. 
° CONTI'NUITY,yi Jcontinuitas, Lat.] ConneCtiontin- 
interrupted ; cohefion ; clofe union.—It is certain, that 
in all bodies:there is an appetite of union, and eviration 
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