Comitia were the legal or constitutional meetings of the Roman people, convened by a magistrate, usually for the purpose of putting a question to the vote. According to the constitution of the several gatherings, they were comitia curiata, comitia centuriata, or comitia tributa respectively. See ROME.
Comity of Nations—more frequently mentioned by its Latin equivalent, comitas gentium—is the international courtesy by which effect is given to the laws of one state within the territory and against the citizens of another state. 'In the silence of any positive rule,' says Story, 'affirming, or denying, or restraining the operation of foreign laws, courts of justice presume the tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy or prejudicial to its interests.' See Story's Conflict of Laws; and INTERNATIONAL LAW.