wex definitions

Confrontation Clause refers to the provision in the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that "in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right...to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”

Confusingly similar, is a standard test that is applied to see whether a potential trademark conflicts with an existing trademark for the trademark registration purpose. 

An example of confusingly similar in trademark law is when a symbol or logo is so exceedingly similar to an existing trademark that the public might mistake the symbol with the existing one. 

• Trademark Law; trademark; intellectual property

Congressional powers refer to the authority Congress has to create legislation. These powers are enumerated and Article I of the U.S. Constitution creates and defines the powers of Congress. For more on specific congressional powers, see:

Conjugal rights refer to the mutual rights and privileges between two individuals arising from the state of being married. These rights include mutual rights of companionship, support, comfort, sexual relations, affection, joint property rights and the like.

Connivance most commonly refers to a defense in divorce law in which a spouse accused of adultery, or another form of sexual misconduct, asserts that the other spouse consented to the adultery. The modern availability of no-fault divorce has likely made the defense less prevalent.

Consanguinity is the relationship between people who share a common ancestor, distinguishing relatives by blood from those related by affinity. Affinity refers to relationships created by marriage.

A conscientious objector is a person who refuses to bear arms or serve in the military based on a matter of conscience; rather, on moral, ethical, or religious grounds. In the United States, conscientious objections were raised in response to military conscription (the “draft”). Successful claims of conscientious objection freed the claimant from combatant service and training, usually mandating alternative service for those individuals.

Conscious parallelism refers to businesses changing their prices to reflect the prices of competitors within a market without colluding or communicating with competitors.

Conscripting is the act of enlisting individuals into the armed forces. Conscripting children is a war crime punishable by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The crime has the following elements:

A consecutive sentence, or cumulative sentence, is one which does not begin to run until the expiration of a prior sentence.