Category: S

The origlns from which particular posltlve laws derive thelr authority and coercive force. Such are constitutions, treaties, statutes, usages, and customs

General health; freedom from any permanent disease. 1 Car. & M. 291

In Engllsh law. A drain or water-course. The channels or water-courses used for draining mines are so termed; and those mines which are near to any given sough, and lie within the same level, and are benefited by it, are technically said to lie within the title of that sough. 5 Mees. & W. 228; […]

A mortuary, or customary gift due ministers. In many parishes of Eng-land, on the death of parishioners. It was originally voluntary and lntended as amends for ecclesiastical dues neglected to be paid ln the life-time. 2 Bl. Comm. 425

Lat In the civil law. A drawing of lots. Sortitio judicum was the process of selecting a number of judges, for a criminal trial, by drawlng lots

Lat In tbe civU law. Lot; chance; fortune; hazard; a lot, made of wood, gold, or other material. Money bor-rowed, or put out at interest. A principal sum or fund, such as the capital of a part-nership. Ainsworth; Calvin

Lat. In the civil iaw. Sister; a sister. Ihst 3, 6, 1

The killing or murder of a sister; one who murders his sister. This Is not a technical term of the law

In Scotch law. A person who takes meat and drink from others by force or menaces, without paying for it Bell

Lat In the civll law. HurtT ful; injurious; hindering; excusing or jusr tlfytng delay. Morbus sonticus ls any illness pf so serlous a nature as to prevent a defendant from appearing in court and to give him a valid excuse. Calyln

Sleep-waIking. whether this condition is anything more than a co-operation of the voluntary muscles with the thoughts which occupy the mind during sleep is not settled by physiologists, whar-ton

In ecclesiastical law, an officer of the ecclesiastical courts whose duty was to serve citations or process

In French law. A demand served by a huissier, by which one narty calls upon another to do or not to do a

Lat He paid; paid. 10 East, 206

A solvent person is one who is able to pay all his just debts in full out of hls own present means. See Dig. 50, 16, 114. And see Solvency

Lat. To be ln a state of solvency; i. e., able to pay

Lat. Paylng. An apt word of reserving a rent in old conveyances. Co. Litt 47a

Fr. In French law. Ability to pay; solvency. Emerig. Tralte des Assur. c. 8, | 15

Lat In civil law. Payment, satisfaction, or release; any species of discharge of an obligation accepted as satia-factory by the creditor. The term refers not so much to the counting out of money as to the substance of tbe obligation. Dig. 46, 3* 54; Id. 50, 16, 176

In tbe oivil law. Loosed; freed from confinement; set at liberty. Dig. 50, 16, 48

LaL In Ro

In old English law. Two plow-lands, and somewhat less than a half. Go. Litt. 5a

Lat. In the civil law. A whole; an entire or undivided thing

A rite or ceremony; the formallty establlshed by law to render a con-tract, agreement, or other act valld

To solemnize, spoken of a marriage, means no more than to enter ln-to a marriage contract, wlth due publicatlon, before thlrd persons, for the purpose of glv-ing lt notoriety and certalnty; whlch may be before any persons, relatives, frlends, or strangers, competent to testify to the facts. See Dyer v. Brannock, 66 Mo. 410, 27 […]

Iu old Engllsh practlce. Solemnlty or formality of attachments. The lssulng of attachments ln a certaln formal and regular order. Bract fols. 439, 440; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 480

Lat. In the dvil law. Solemn forms of laws; forms of forensic proceedings and of trans-acting legal acts, one of the sources of the unwrltten law of Rome. Butl. Hor. Jur. 47

Slngle; lndlvldual; separate; the opposlte of joint; as a sole tenant.

A military man; a prlvatc ln the army

A note glven by a broker, who has effected a sale of merchandise, to the buyer, stating the fact of sale, quantity, prlce, etc. Story, Ag. | 28; Saladin v. Mlt-cheli, 45 IU. 83

Lat In the clvll law. A rent paid for the ground, where a person bnllt on the publlc land. A ground rent. Spelman; Calvln

Compensation. Damages allowed for injury to the feelings

A calendar month. See Month

That perlod of tlme which begins at sunrise and ends at sunset Co. Litt 135a

In Engllsh law. Those who held thelr lands ln socage. 2 Bl. Comm. 100

In Spanlsh law. Laud; the demesue, wlth a house, situate ln a strong or fortified place, white, New Recop. b. 1, tlt 5, c. 3, 8 2

Lands and tenements which were not heid by knight-service, nor by grand serjeanty, nor by petit, hut by simple servlces; heing, as lt were, lands en-franchlsed hy the king or his predecessors from thelr anclent demesne. Their tenants were sokemans. wharton

The lord’s rent gather-er in the soca. Cowell

Fr. Let it be; ‘ be it so. A term used in several Law-French phrases employ-ed in English law, particularly as expressive of the will or assent of the sovereign in form-al communications with parliament or with private suitors

Iu criminal law. The crlme of unnatural sexual connectlon; so named from its prevalence in Sodom. See Genesis, xix

One who has been guilty of sodomy

A privilege, liberty, or franchise. CowelL

Free tenure by socage

A socager

An association or company of persons (generally not incorporated) unit

LaL In the civil law. A part-ner

Fr. In French law. Partner-ship. See Commendam

In Spanish law. Partner-ship. Schm. CivU Law, 153, 154

Lat In the clvll law. Part-nershlp; a partnership; the contract of partnership. Inst 3, 26. A contract by which the goods or labor of two or more are united In a common stock, for the sake of sharing in the gain. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 2, c. 18, no. 12

A scheme of government aiming at absolute equality in the distribu-tion of the physical means of life and en-Joyment It is on the continent employed in a larger sense; not necessarily implying communism, or the entire abolition of private property, but applied to any system which requires that the land and the instruments of production […]