Category: S

ER. Lat In the civil law. A wife’s lather; a father-in-law. Calvin

A tenant by socage

A seigniory or lordship, enfran-chised by the king, with liberty of holding a court of his socmen or socagers; i. e., his tenants

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8OK, or SOKA. In Saxon law. Jurisdiction; a power or privllege to admin-ister justice and execute the laws; also a shire, circuit, or territory. Cowell. A

In Spanish law. Su-perior judges. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit A L L

Span. Above; over; upon. Ruis v. Chambers, 15 Tex. 586, 592

The formula, at the end of a common oath

A small duty which was paid by servile tenants iu wy-legh to the abbot of Colchester. Coweli

The offense of lmport-ing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties

The act, with intent to de-fraud, of bringing into the United States, or with like intent, attempting to bring into the United States, dutiable articles, without pass-ing the same, or the package containing the same, through the custom-house, or submit-ting them to the officers of the revenue for examination. 18 U. S. St. at Large, […]

In old English law. An annual rent paid to cathedral churches; another name for the pentecostals or customary oblations offered by the dispersed inhabitants within a diocese, when they made their processions to the mother cathedral chnrch. Cowell

In English law. A sum paid to the ministers of divers parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. Blount

Vindictive or exem-piary damages. See Brewer v. Jacobs (C. C.) 22 Fed. 224; Springer v. Somers Fuel Co., 196 Pa. 156, 46 Ati. 370; Day v. wood-worth, 13 How. 371, 14 L. Ed. 181; Murphy v. Hobbs, 7 Colo. 541, 5 Pac. 119, 49 Am. Rep. 366

In old records. A small, light vessel; a smack. CowelL

An artificial channel ln-to which water is let by a sluice. Speciflcal-ly, a trench constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs or lumber can be floated down to a coifvenient place of delivery. VVeb-ster. See Anderson v. Munch, 29 Minn. 416, 18 N. W. 192

An arm of a river, flowing be-tween islands and the main-land, and sep-arating the islands from one another. Sloughs have not the breadth of the main river, nor does the main body of water of the stream flow through them. Dunlieth & D. Bridge Co. v. Dubuque County, 55 lowa, 565, 8 N. W. 443

In English iaw. An expression frequently used ln coal-mine leases and agreements for the same. It signifies a fixed or dead, i. e., certain, rent, as distin-guished from a rent or royalty varying with the amount of coals gotten, and is payable although the mine should not be worked at all, but should be sleeping […]

A hurdle to draw traitors to execution. 1 Hale, P. C. 82

A dormant partner; one whose name does not appear in the firm, and who takes no active part in the business, but who has an interest in the concern, and shares the profits, and thereby be-comes a partner, either absolutely, or as re-spects third persons

The condition of a slave; that civll relation In which one man has ab-solute power over the life, fortune, end lib-erty of another

A person who ls wholly subject to tlie will of another; one who hns no free-dom of action, but whose person and serv-ices are wholly under the control of another, webster

Tlie traffic iu slaves, or the buying and selling of sla,cs for profit

In torts, oral defamation; the speaking of false and malicious words concerning another, whereby Injury results to his reputation. See Pollard v. Lyon, 91

See Letters or Slains

In old records. A long, flat, and narrow piece or strip of ground. Paroch. Antiq. 465

Practical and familiar knowledge of the principles and processes of an art, sclence, or trade, combined with the ability to apply them in practice in a proper and approved manner and with readiness and dexterity. See Dole v. Johnson, 50 N. H. 454; Akridge v. Noble, 114 Ga. 949, 41 S. E. 78; Graham v. […]

Servants of the same nature as rod knights, (q. v.) Anc. Inst Eng

In Engllsh law. A liquor license, containing a condition that the premises in respect of which the license ls granted shall be closed during the whole of Sunday, granted under section 49 of the licensing act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict c. 94

In English practice, of-ficers of the court of chancery, who receiv-ed and filed all bills, answers, replications, and other papers, signed office copies of pleadings, examined and signed dockets of decrees, etc., and had the care of all records in thelr office. Holthouse; 3 Bl. Comm. 443. They were abolished by St. 5 Vict. c. […]

The acts passed in 1819, for the pacification of England, are so called. They, in effect, prohibited the training of persons to arms; authorized general searches and seizure of arms; prohibited meetings of more than fifty persons for the discussion of public grievances; repressed with heavy penalties and confiscations sedi-tious and blasphemous libels; and checked […]

In practice. The holding of a court, with full form, and before all the

Lat Site; position; location; the place where a thing is, considered, for example, with reference to jurisdiction over it, or the right or power to tax it See Boyd ?. Selma, 96 Ala. 144, 11 South. 393, 16 L. R. A. 729; Bullock v. Guilford, 59 VL 616, 9 Atl. 360; Fenton v. Edwards, 126 […]

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In Saxon law. The high constable of a hundred

In old English law. A franchise, liberty, or hundred

See Fund

Unitary; detached; individ-ual; affecting only one person; containing only one part, article, condition, or covenant

Lat without

In tbe civU law. Mis

To feign, pretend, or coun-terfelt. To engage, usually with the co-op-peration or connivance of another person, in an act or series of acts, which are apparently transacted in good faith, and Intended to be followed hy thelr ordinary legal conseqnen-ces, but which in reality conceal a fraudu-lent purpose of the party to gain thereby some […]

Lat A species of feigned disease, ln whlch disease is actually present, but where the symptoms are falsely aggravated, and greater sickness is pretended than really exists. Beck, Med. Jur. 8

Lat Together and at one time

Lat. Simply; without ceremony; ln a summary manner

Lat. Simple; single; pure; unqualified

Pure; unmixed; not com-pounded; not aggravated; not evidenced by sealed writing or record

In English ecclesiastical law. The corrupt presentation of any oue to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or re-ward. 2 Bl. Comm. 278. An unlawful con-tract for presenting a clergyman to a hene-flce. The buying or selling of ecclesiastical preferments or of things pertaining to the ecclesiastical order. Hob. 167. See State v. Buswell, 40 […]

Lat. In the civil law. The single value of a thlng. Dig. 21, 2, 37, 2

In tho civil law

Lat. In the civil law. wood; a wood