crim. con.

American  

abbreviation

Civil Law.

1. criminal conversation.

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Example Sentences

We had no complex machinery of law; there was no such difficulty as an estate in Chancery; no Divorce Court, or cases of crim. con. that necessitated an appeal.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

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.'

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund

Brown, crim. con. to be heard on or before Wednesday next.—Barley thirty-two to forty-two.—Fine upland meadow and rye grass hay, seventy to eighty.—The last pocket of hops I sold brought seven pounds fifteen shillings.

From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Surtees, Robert Smith

Let us own, too, we were ashamed, as we had good right to be ashamed, of our old crim. con. law.

From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Lever, Charles James

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.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne