Confusion

Definition - Noun
1  in the civil law of Louisiana : a uniting of two interests or rights in property into one
compare merger
2  in the civil law of Louisiana : the termination of an obligation by a person acquiring the right from which the obligation arose
3  : the mixing or blending together of goods or commodities so that the individual owners cannot identify their own property



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writ of error coram nobis

a writ calling the attention of the trial court to facts which do not appear on the record despite the exercise of reasonable diligence by the defendant and which if known and established at the time a judgment was rendered would have resulted in a different judgment


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