CO-ORDINATE

Of the same order, rank, degree, or authority;. concurrent; f without any distinction of superiority and inferiority; as, courts of "co-ordinate jurisdiction." -See JUBIBDICTION. • Co-ordinate and subordinate are terms often applied as a, test to ascent a in the doubtful 6 meaning of clauses in an act of parliament. If there be two, one of which is grammatically governed by. the other, it is said to be "subordinate" to it; but, if both are equally governed by some third clause, the two are called "co-ordinate." Wharton. [s. 275]