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SABBATH The same as Sunday. (q. v.) ...
SABINIANS A sect of lawyers, whose first chief was Atteius Capito, and ...
SACQUIER maritime law. The same of an ancient officer, whose business "was ...
SACRAMENTUM . An oath; as, qui dicunt supra sacramentum suum. ...
SACRILEGE . The act of stealing from the temples or churches dedicated ...
SAEVETIA . Cruelty. (q. v.) It is required in order to ...
SAFE PLEDGE, salvus-plegius. A surety given that a man shall appear upon a ...
SAFE-CONDUCT, comm. law, war. A passport or permission from a neutral state ...
SAID Before mentioned. 2. In contracts and pleadings ...
SAILING INSTRUCTIONS, mar. law. Written or printed directions, delivered by the commanding officer ...
SAILORS Seamen, mariners. Vide Mariners; Seamen; Shipping Articles. ...
SAISIE-EXECUTION, French law. This term is used in Louisiana. It is a ...
SAISIE-FORAINE A term used in Louisiana and in the French law; this ...
SAISIE-GAGERIE, French law. A conservatory act of execution, by which the owner, ...
SAISIE-IMMOBILIERE A writ by which the creditor puts in the custody of ...
SALARY A reward or recompense for services performed. ...
SALE AND RETURN When goods are sent from a manufacturer or wholesale dealer to ...
SALE NOTE A memorandum given by a broker to a seller or ...
SALE, contracts. An agreement by which one of the contracting parties, called ...
SALIQUE LAW The name of a code of laws so called from ...
SALVAGE CHARGES The expenses incurred to remunerate services rendered to a ship and ...
SALVAGE LOSS By salvage loss is understood the difference between the amount of ...
SALVAGE, maritime law. This term originally meant the thing or goods saved ...
SALVORS, mar. law. When a ship and cargo, or any part ...
SAMPLE, contracts. A small quantity of any commodity or merchandise, exhibited as ...
SANCTION That part of a law which inflicts a penalty for ...
SANCTUARY A place of refuge, where the process of the law cannot ...
SANE MEMORY By this is meant that understanding which enables a man to ...
SANG or SANC Blood. These words are nearly obsolete. ...
SANITY, med. jur. The state of a person who has a ...
SANS CEO QUE The same as Absque hoc. (q. v.) ...
SANS NOMBRE This is a French phrase, which signifies without number. ...
SANS RECOURS Without recourse. 2. These words are sometimes ...
SATISDACTION, civil law. This word is derived from the same root as ...
SATISFACTION PIECE, Eng. practice. An instrument of writing in which it is declared ...
SATISFACTION, practice. An entry made on the record, by which a party ...
SATISFACTION, construction by courts of equity. Satisfaction is defined to be the ...
SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE That which is sufficient to induce a belief that the thing ...
SCANDAL A scandalous verbal report or rumor respecting some person. ...
SCANDALUM MAGNATUM Great scandal or slander. In England it. is the slander of ...
SCHEDULE, practice. When an indictment is returned, from au inferior court in ...
SCHOOLMASTER One employed in teaching a school. 2. ...
SCIENDUM, Eng. law. The name given to a clause inserted in ...
SCIENTER, knowingly. 2. A man may do many ...
SCILICET A Latin adverb, signifying that is to say; to wit; namely. ...
SCINTILLA JURIS, estates; A spark of right. A legal fiction, resorted to for ...
SCIRE FACIAS AD AUDIENDUM ERRORES The name of a writ which is sued out after the ...
SCIRE FACIAS AD DISPROBANDUM DEBTTUM The name of a writ in use in Pennsylvania, which lies ...
SCIRE FACIAS, remedies, practice. The name of a judicial writ, founded upon some ...
SCIRE FECI, practice. The return of the sheriff, or other proper officer, to ...
SCIRE FIERI INQUIRY, Eng. law. The name of a writ, the history of the ...
SCITE The setting or standing of may place. The seat or situation ...
SCOLD A woman who by her habit of scolding becomes a ...
SCOT AND LOT Eng. law. The name of a customary contribution, laid upon all ...
SCOUNDREL An opprobrious title given to a person of bad character. General ...
SCRIPT, conv. The original or principal instrument, where there are part and ...
SCRIVENER A person whose, business it is to write deeds and other ...
SCROLL . A mark which is to supply the place of ...
SCUTAGE, old Eng. law. The name of a tax or contribution ...
SCYREGEMOTE . The name of a court among the Saxons. It ...
SE DEFENDENDO, criminal law. Defending himself. 2. Homicide, se ...
SEA . The ocean; the great mass of waters which surrounds ...
SEA LETTER OR SEA BRIEF, maritime law. A document which should be found on board of ...
SEA SHORE, property. That space of land, on the border of the sea, ...
SEA WEED A species of grass which grows in the sea. ...
SEA WORTHINESS, mer. law. The ability of a ship or other vessel to ...
SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES, government. The seal used by the United States in congress assembled, ...
SEAL-OFFICE, English practice. The office at which certain judicial writs are sealed ...
SEALING OF A VERDICT, practice. The putting a verdict in writing, and placing it in ...
SEAMAN A sailor; a mariner; one whose business is navigation. 2 Boulay ...
SEAMEN'S FUND By the act of July 16, 1798, a provision is ...
SEARCH WARRANT, crim. law, practice. A warrant (q. v.) requiring the officer to ...
SEARCH, crim. law. An examination of a man's house, premises or person, ...
SEARCH, practice. An examination made in the proper lien office for mortgages, ...
SEARCH, RIGHT OF, mar. law. The right existing in a belligerent to examine and ...
SEARCHER, Eng. law. An officer of the customs, whose duty it ...
SECK This word has two significations. 1. It means a warrant ...
Second Circuit </center> . Paine's Reports. From 1810 to ...
SECOND DELIVERANCE, practice. The name of a writ given by statute of Westminster ...
SECOND SURCHARGE, WRIT OF The name of a writ issued in England against a commoner ...
SECONDARY EVIDENCE That species of proof which is admissible on the loss of ...
SECONDARY, construction. That which comes after the first, which is primary: as, ...
SECONDARY, English law. An officer who is second or next to ...
SECONDS, crim. law. Those persons who assist, direct and support others engaged ...
SECRET That which is not to be revealed. ...
SECRET, rights. A knowledge of something which is unknown to orthers, out ...
SECRETARY An officer who, by order of his superior, writes letters and ...
SECRETARY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR, government. This officer is appointed by the president. He is required ...
SECRETARY OF EMBASSY or OF LEGATION An officer appointed by the sovereign power, to accompany a minister ...
SECRETARY OF LEGATION An officer employed to attend a foreign mission, and to perform ...
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