Terms beginning with "S" (870 total)

State v. Cantieny, 34 Minn

1, 24 N. W. 458. —Public passage. A right, subsisting in the public, to pass over a body of water, whether the land under it be public or owned by a private person.—Public place. <A place to which the general public ...

State v. Davis, 55 Ohio St

15, 44 N. BE. 511. A law, framed in general terms, restricted to no locality, and operating aoe upon all of a group of objects, which, having regard to the purpose. of the legislation, are distinguished y characteristics...

State v. Hays, 23 Mo

287.—Principal challenge. <A challenge of a juror for a cause which carries with it, prima facie, evident marks of suspicion either of malice or favor; as that a juror is of kin to either party within the ninth degree;...

State v. Huegin

110 Wis. 189. 85 N. W. 1046, 62 L. R. A. 700; Wing v. Wing, 66 Me. 62, 22 Am. Rep. 548.— Malicious mischief. <A term applied to the willful destruction of personal property. from actual ill will or resentment towards i...

State vy. Carr, 28 Or

389, 42 Pac. 215.—Inmocent conveyances. A technical term of the English law of conveyancing, used to designate such conveyances as may be made by a leasehold tenant without working a forfeiture. These are said to be le...

State, 1 Ind

184.—Suppletory oath. In the civil and ecclesiastical law. The testimony of a single witness to a fact is called ‘half-proof,” on which no sentence can be founded; in order to supply the other half of proof, the pa...

State, 10 Ind

144; Ardery v. State, 56 Ind. 828. This is scarcely a technical term of the law, and is not susceptible of exact definition or description in its juridical uses. The question whether or not a given act, publication, etc....