DE CORPORE COMITATUS

By SovConn | June 21, 2014

de  corpore  comitatus  (dee  kor-p<<schwa>>-ree  kom-<<schwa>>-tay-t<<schwa>>s).  [Law

Latin] From the body of the county. • This term was esp. used to distinguish a body of the county

at large from a smaller area or de vicineto (“from a neighborhood”). [Blacks Law 8th]

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