Comes

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Comes \Co"mes\, n. [L., a companion.] (Mus.)
     The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  COMES, offices. A Count. An officer during the middle ages, who possessed 
  civil and military authority. Sav. Dr. Rom. Moy. age, n. 80. 
       2. Vice-comes, the Latin name for sheriff, was originally the 
  lieutenant of the comes. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  COMES, pleading. In a plea, the defendant says, "And the said C D, by E F, 
  his attorney, comes, and defends, &c. The word comes, venit, expresses the 
  appearance of the defendant, in court. It is taken from the style of the 
  entry of the proceedings on the record, and formed no part of the viva voce 
  pleading. It is, accordingly, not considered as, in strictness, constituting 
  a part of the Plea. 1 Chit. Pl. 411; Steph. Pl. 432.