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Suicide ls the willful and vol-untary act of a person who understands the physical nature of the act, and intends by lt to accomplish the result of self-destruction. Nimick v. Mutual Life Ins. Co., 10 Am. Law Reg. (N. S.) 101, Fed. Cas. No. 10,266

Lat. In the civil law. one’s own heirs; proper heirs. Inst 2, 19, 2

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Lat of lts own kind or class; i. e., the only one ot its own kind; pecullar

In practice. A statement, formally entered on the record, of some fact or circumstance which will materially affect the further proceedings in the cause, or which is necessary to be brought to the knowledge of the court in order to its right disposition of the action, but which, for some reason, cannot be pleaded. Thus, […]

Lat. Suggestion or representation of that which is false; false representation. To recite in a deed that a will was duly executed, when it was not, ia suggestio falsi; and to conceal from the heir that the wlll was not duly executed ls suppressio veri. 1 P. wms. 240

Lat. In Roman law. A vote; the right of voting in the assemblies of the people

Lat. A grant or sufferance of peace or truce

Toleration; negative permission by not forbidding; passive con-sent ; license implied from the omission or neglect to enforce an adverse right

To suffer an act to be done, by a iierson who cau prevent it, is to permit or consent to it; to approve of it, and not to hinder it. It impiles a willingness of the mind. See In re Rome Planing Mill (C. C.) 96 Fed. 815; wilson v. Nelson, 183 II. S. 191, […]

In Scotch law. The whole lands astricted to a mill; that is, the lands of whicb the tenants are obliged to send their grain to that mil). Bell

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one who succeeds to the rights or the place of another; particularly, the person or persons who constitute a corporation after the death or removal of those who preceded them as corporators

In tbe civU Uw and in Louisiana. 1. The fact ot the transmission of the rights, estate, obligations, and charges of a deceased person to his heir or heirs

Lat. In the civil lgw. A coming in place of another, on hls decease; a coming into the estate which a deceased person had at the time of his death. This was either by virtue of an express appoint-ment of the deceased person by bis will, (ex testamento,) or by tbe general appointment of law […]

Lat. In old Englisb law. Husbandmen

In old Scotch law. Base holders; inferior holders; they who held their lands of knights. Skene

The offense of wlth-holdlng or withdrawing from another man what by law he is entitled to. There are various descriptions of this offense, of which the principal are as follows: (1) Subtraction of suit and services, which is a species of in-jury affecting a man’s real property, and con-sists of a withdrawal of (or a […]

An under-tenant; one wbo leases all or a part of tbe rented premises from the original lessee for a term less than that held by the latter. Forrest v. Durnelh 86 Tex. 647, 26 S. W. 481

In French law. Tbe fraudulent appropriation of any property, but particularly of the goods of a decedent’s estate

In tbe civil law

In English praotice. Service of process made under authorization of the court upon some other person, when the person who should be serv-ed cannot be found or cannot be reached

That part of the law which the courts are established to ad-minister, as opposed to the rules according to which the substantive law Itself is administered. That part of the law which creates, defines, and regulates rights, as opposed to adjective or remedial law, which prescribes the method of enforcing rights or obtaining redress for […]

A sum. as-sessed by way of damages, wbich is worth having; opposed to nominal damuges, which

In Englisb law. An aid, tax, or tribute granted by parliament to the kiug for tbe urgent occasions of the king-dom, to be levied on every subject of ability, according to the value of bis lands or goods. Jacob

Lat In Roman law. Lower seats or benches, occupied by the indices and by inferior magistrates when they sat in judgment, as distinguished from the tribunal of the pnetor. Calvin

See Con-dition

Lat In the civU law. A writing under, or under-writing; a writ-ing of tbe name under or at tbe bottom of an instrument by way of attestation or ratificn-tion; subscription

In the iaw of contracts. To write under; to write the name under; to write the name at the bottom or end of a writing, wild Cat Branch v. Ball, 45 Ind. 213; Davis v. Shields, 26 wend. (N. Y.) 341

He who

A person who is suhrogat-ed; one who succeeds to the rights of another by subrogation

In French law. The fraud committed to obtain a pardon, title, or grant, by alleging facts contrary to truth

The substitution of one thing for another, or of one person Into the place of another with respect to rights, claims, or securities

Lat. In the civil law. obtaining gifts of escheat, etc., from the king by concealing the truth. Bell; Calvin

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one who suborns or pro-cures another to commlt any crime, particularly to commit perjury

In criminal law. To procure another to commit perjury. Steph. Crim. Law, 74

In the dvil law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of law

To ham-string by cut-ting the sinews of the legs and thighs

To propound; as an advocate submits a proposition for the approval of the court

A lease by a tenant to an* other person of a part of the premises held by him; an under-lease

A yielding to authority. A citizen is bound to submit to the laws; a child to his parents

The thing iu con-troversy, or the matter spoken or written about

The obligation of one or more persons to nct at the discretion or ac-cording to the judgment and will of others

In logic. That concerning which the affirmation in a proposition is made; the first word in a proposition

Lat In the civil law. A sale by public auction, which was done under a spear, fixed up at the piace of sale as a public sign of it Calvin

The system which the feudal tenants introduced of granting smaller estates out of those whlch they held of thelr lord, to be held of themselves as inferior lords. As this system was proceed-lng downward ad infinitum, and depriving the lords of their feudal profits, it was en-tirely suppressed by the statute Quia Emp-tores, 18 Edw. […]

Lat. In the civU law. To sell at public auction, which was done sub hasta, under a spear; to put or sell under the spear. Calvin

To divide a part into smaller parts; to separate into smaller divi-slons. As, where an estate is to be taken by some of the heirs per stirpes, it is divided and subdivided according to the number of takers in the nearest degree and those in the more remote degree respectively

In Engllsh probate practice, to subduct a caveat is to withdraw it