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confusion of goods.The mixture of things of the same nature but belonging to different owners so that the iden-tification of the things is no longer possible. • If this occurs by common consent of the owners, they are owners in common, but if the mixture is done willfully by one person alone, that person loses…

confusion of boundaries.The branch of equity that deals with the settlement of disputed or uncertain real-property boundaries. [Cases: Boundaries  26. C.J.S. Boundaries §§ 106, 109.] [Blacks Law 8th]

confusion. 1.CONFUSION OF GOODS. 2.MERGER(9). “Confusion is the intermingling of two or more pieces of personal property so that the property rights in each can no longer be distinguished. Thereafter, no specific identification or separation of the formerly separate chattel is possible. Such an intermingling occurs most often with fungible goods like gas, oil, grain,…

confusio bonorum (k<<schwa>>n-fyoo-zhee-oh b<<schwa>>-nor-<<schwa>>m). See CONFUSION OF GOODS. [Blacks Law 8th]

  confusio (k<<schwa>>n-fyoo-zhee-oh), n. [fr. Latin confundere “to pour together”] 1.Roman law. An inseparable mixture of liquid property belonging to different owners. Cf. COMMIXTIO. 2.Roman law. The extinction of a right or duty that occurs when the roles of creditor and debtor become united in one person. 3.Scots law. A doctrine whereby a lesser right…

Confrontation Clause.The Sixth Amendment provision generally guaranteeing a criminal defendant’s right to confront an accusing witness face-to-face and to cross-examine that witness. • This right may be overridden if the witness is esp. vulnerable, as with a child who is an alleged victim of sexual abuse. Even then, the defendant’s attorney must have an opportunity…

conformity hearing. 1. A court-ordered hearing to determine whether the judgment or decree prepared by the prevailing party conforms to the decision of the court. 2. A hearing before a federal agency or department to determine whether a state-submitted plan complies with the requirements of federal law. • This type of hearing is common in…

Conformity Act.Hist. An 1872 federal statute providing that the practice and procedure in federal district courts (other than in equity and admiralty matters) must conform to the practice and procedure used by the state courts for like cases. • The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (effective in 1938) superseded the Conformity Act. “[E]ven where there…

conforming use.See USE(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

conforming,adj. Being in accordance with contractual obligations <conforming goods> <conforming conduct>. UCC § 2-106(2). [Cases: Sales  153, 166(1). C.J.S. Sales §§ 161–162, 164, 176, 182.] [Blacks Law 8th]