COVENT

A contraction, lD the old books, of the word "convent." COVENTRY ACT, The name given to the statute 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 1, which provided for the punishment of a aults with intent to maim or disfigure a person. It waa so named from its being occasioned by an as, D sault on Sir John Coventry in the street. 4 BI. Comm. 207; ·state v. Cody, 18 Or. 506, 23 Pac. 891. COVER INTO, The phrase "covered Into the treasury," as used in acts of congre E and the practice of the United States treasury department, means that money has actually been paid into the treasury in the regular manner, as distinguished from merely depositing it with the treasurer, U. S. v. f Johnston, 124 U. S. 236, 8 Sup. Ot. 446, 31 L. Ed. 389. [s. 301]