crim. con.

American  

abbreviation

Civil Law.

1. criminal conversation.

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Example Sentences

That's the English way of settlin' a crim. con. case.

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As to Turkey as a question for a paper, I can only say as Lord Plunkett did of a crim. con. case: 'I'd like to have a hundred pounds to argue it either way.'

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The whisperings of side groups may have referred to it; but it was too old to be interesting—even to the most industrious dealers in crim. con. gossip.

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It mattered little what the subject, he was always ready; and whether it were a crim. con. in the newspapers, a seizure for rent, a marriage in high life, or a pig in the pound,—there he was, explaining away all difficult terms of law and jurisprudence; and many a difficulty that Tom Cafferty, the postmaster, had attempted in vain to solve was, by a kind of "writ of error," removed to my father's court for explanation and decision.

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And everybody ought to know the story of the Immortal who, upon finding a man "where nae mon should be," and upon that "mon" showing the baseness derived from Adam by turning on his accomplice and saying, "Quand je vous disais qu'il était temps que je m'en aille!" neglected crim. con. for crim. gram. and cried in horror, "Que je m'en allasse, Monsieur!"

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