- In the Roman law, a money lender or broker; a dealer in money; a banker. Argentarium, the instrument of the loan, similar to the modern word "bond" or "note." ARGENTARIUS MILES.-A money porter in the English Exchequer, who carrie the money from the lower to the upper Exchequer to be examined and tested.-Spel. Gloss. ARGENTUM ALBUM.-Bullion; uncoined silver; common silver coin; silver coin worn smooth. Cowell; Spel. Gloss. COLLYBUM.-Exchange. of See COLONUS.-A husbandman or villager, who was bound to pay yearly a certain tribute; or, at certain times in the year, to plough some part of the lord's land; hence the word "clown." -Jacob. COLONY.-LATIN: colo, to cultivate. A settlement in a foreign country possessed and cultivated, either wholly or partially, by immigrants and their descendants, who have a political connection with and subordination to the mother country, whence they emigrated. In other words, it is a place peopled from some more ancient city or country. Colonies are acquired either (1) by conquest, (2) by cession under treaty, (3) by occupancy, or (4) by hereditary descent. In the first two cases, the territory retains its former laws until they are altered by the home government. The alterations may be general or partial, leaving the old laws still in force touching matters unprovided for. In the third case (which is strictly a plantation), the laws of the home government, so far as they are applicable to the condition of with them the laws of their country, which are their inalienable birthright. Such a colony is, then, not subject to legislation by the mother country.-Wharton. COLOR.-LATIN: color, a pretext. Dirksen Man. Lat. s. v. 2 2; Steph. Pl. Append. n. 40 et seq. 1. Color primarily signifies any appearance, pretext or pretence; thus, a person is said to have no color of title when he has not even a prima facie title. Litt. 400. 2. In pleading.---Color is an important term in the language of pleading. "It signifies an apparent or prima facie right, and the meaning of the rule that pleadings in confession and avoidance should give color is, that they should confess the matter adversely alleged to such an extent at least as to admit some apparent right in the opposite party, which requires to be encountered and avoided (i. e. deprived of its effect) by the allegation of new matter." (Steph. Pl. (5 edit.) 233.) Color is either implied or express. 3. Implied color. -"Where to an action of assumpsit the defendant pleads in confession and avoidance that he did not promise within six years before the action brought, it is an absolute implied admission of the truth of the adverse allegation, that he had at one time made such promise as alleged, and that there is therefore an apparent right in the plaintiff, and this right is avoided by relying on the lapse of time." Steph. Pl. (5 edit.) 234. 4. Express color (called in the old books "color" simply) is "a feigned matter, pleaded by the defendant in an action of trespass, from which the plaintiff seems to have a good cause of action, whereas he has in truth only an appearance or color of cause." (Bac. Abr. Trespass, T. 4). Thus, if the defendant in an action of trespass quare clausum fregit wished to defend himself upon the ground that J. S., a third person, being seized in fee of the land in question, demised it to him for a term of an infant colony, are ipso facto in force in years, he was not allowed to plead those such colony, for there can be no existing facts simply, because they would amount laws to contest the superiority; and, beto a denial of any title to possession whatsides, the occupants could not have any ever in the plaintiff, and for such a denial power to establish laws independently of a traverse (q. v.) was the proper plea; but the mother country, to whom their alleas it was frequently advantageous for the