STRUCK JURY. See STRIKING a JUBY
STRUMPET. A whore, harlot, or courtesan. This word was anciently used for an addition. It occurs as an addition to the name of a woman in a return made by a jury in the sixth year of Henry V. Wharton.
Terms beginning with "S" (870 total)
Strull v. Louisville & N. R. Co
(Ky.) 76 S. W. 183.—Genoral orders. Orders or rules of court, promulgated for the ‘guidance of practitioners and the regulation of procedure in general, or in some general branch of its jurisdiction; as opposed to a ...
Struve. Struve’s Reports, vol
3 Washington Territory.
Stu. Adm
(or V.A.). Stuart’s Lower Canada Vice-Admiralty Reports.
STULTILOQUIUM
bankruptcy, which consists in making affidavit of the debt, and giving a bond to follow up the proceedings with effect. 2 Steph. Lat. Inold English law. Vicious pleading, for which a fine was imposed by King John, suppo...
Stump, 3 Yerg
(Tenn.) 257, 276; Richardson v. McNulty, 24 Cal. 389, 345; Judson v. Malloy, 40 Cal. 299, 310.
STUMPAGE
STUMPAGE. ‘The sum agreed to be paid to an owner of land for trees standing (or lying) upon his land, the purchaser being permitted to enter upon the land und to cut down and remove the trees; in other words, it is the...
STUPRUM
Lat. In the civillaw. Un-
Sturgeon
35 Mo. 213, 86 Am. Dec. 149; Gar rison v. Insurance Co., 19 How. 312. 15 L. Ed. 656; Hibernia Ins. Co. v. Transp. Co.. 120 U.
Sturm v. Boker, 150 U. S. 812
14 Sup. Ct. 99, 87. L. Ed. 1003; Haskins v. Dern, 19 Utah, 89, 56 Pac. 953: Hickman v. Shimp, 109 Pa. 16.—Sale in gross. The term “sale in gross,” when applied to the thing sold, means a8 sale by the tract, without...
SUA SPONTE
Lat. Of his or its own will or motion; voluntarily; without prompting or suggestion.
SUBALTERN
nate officer. authority under the superintendence and eontrol of a superior.
SUBDITUS
Lat. In old English law, A vassal; a dependent; any one under the power of another. Spelman.
SUBHASTARE
Lat. In the civil law. To sell at public auction, which was done sub hasta, under a spear; to put or sell under the spear. Calvin.
SUBHASTATIO
Lat. In the civil law. A sale by public auction, which was done under a spear, fixed up at the place of sale as aA public sign of it. Calvin.
SUBJECT
SUBCONTRACT. See ConTRACcT.
SUBJECTION
SUBJECTION. The obligation of one or more persons to act at the discretion or according to the judgment and will of others.
SUBORNATION OF PERJURY. In
criminal law. The offense of procuring another to take such a false oath as would constitute perjury in the principal. See Stone v. State, 118 Ga. 705, 45 S. E. 630, 98 Am.
SUBREPTIO
Lat. In the civil law. Obtaining gifts of escheat, etc., from the king by concealing the truth. Bell; Calvin.
SUBROGATION
SUBNOTATIONS. In the civil law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of law. the rights which the creditor, if unpaid, might have done. Brown.
SUBSELLIA
Lat. In Roman law. Lower seats or benches, occupied by the judices and by inferior magistrates when they sat in judgment, as distinguished from the tribunat of the preetor. Oalvin.
SUBSOCRIPTIO
Lat. In the civil law. A writing under, or under-writing; a writing of the name under or at the bottom of an instrument by way of attestation or ratification; subscription.
SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES
whether for the purpose of authenticating or attesting it, of adopting its terms as one’s own expressions, or of binding one’s self by an engagement which it contains.
SUBSTANTIVE LAW
are assessed to satisfy a bare legal right. Wharton.
SUBSTITUTIO HZREDIS. Iat. In
Roman law, it was competent for a testator after tnstituting a heres (called the “hares institutus’”’) to substitute another (called the “heres substitutus’’) in bis place in a certain event. If the event u...
SUBSTITUTIONAL, SUBSTITUTION
ARY. Where a will contains a gift of property to a class of persons, with a clause providing that on the death of a member of the class before the period of distribution his share is to go to his issue, (if any,) so as t...
SUBV ASSORES
In Scotch law. The enumeration or designation of the heirs in a settlement of property. Substitutes in an entail are those heirs who are appointed in succession on failure of others.
SUCCESSIO
Lat. In the civil law. A coming in place of another, on his 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 appointment of the deceased perso...
Such as are paid periodically
or from time to time as the services are rendered or the work is performed; more particularly. wages for the current period bence not including such as are past-due. Sydnor v. Galveston (‘ex. App.) 15 S. W. 202; Bank v...
Such things as are permanent, fixed
and immovable, which cannot be carried out of their pace. as lands and tenements; 2 Bl. Comm. 5. Things substantial and immovable, and the rights and profits annexed to or issuing out of them. 1 Steph. Comm. 156.
SUDDEN HEAT OF PASSION
death of his ancestor acquires his estate by Tight of representation as his heir at law.
SUDDER
passion is not the result of a former provocation, and the act must be directly caused by the passion arising out of the provocation at the time of the homicide. It is not enough that the mind is agitated by passion aris...
Sudduth v. Insurance: Co
(C. C.) 106 Fed 823.
SUFFERENTIA PAOIS
Lat. or sufferance of peace or truce.
SUFFERING A RECOVERY. A re
covery was effected by the party wishing te convey the land suffering a fictitious action to ke brought against him by the party to whom the land was to be conveyed, (the demandant,) and allowing the demandant to recover...
SUFFRAGIUM
Lat. In Roman law. A vote; the right of voting in the assemblies of the people.
SUGGESTIO FALSI
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, is suggertio falxi; and to conceal from the heir that the will was not d...
SUGGESTIVE INTERROGATION 1121
fore trial, his death may be suggested on the record,
SUGGESTIVE INTERROGATION. A
phrase which has been used by some writers to signify the same thing as “leading question.” 2 Benth. Jud. Ev. b. 3, c 3. It is used in the French law.
SUI GENERIS
Lat. Of its own kind or class; 4 ce., the only one of its own kind;
SUI HZEREDES
l[at. In the civil law. One’s own heirs; proper heirs. Inst. 2; 19, 2.
SUI JURIS
Lat. of his own right} possessing full social and civil rights; not under any legal disability, or the pee of another, or guardianship.
SUICIDE
'. SEZLF-MURDER, or JER, ‘See Peto ve Sze;
SUING AND LABORING CLAUSE is
a clause in an English policy of marine ine surance, generally in the following form: “In case of any loss or misfortune, it shall be lawful for the assured, their factors, servants and assigns, to sue, labor, and trav...
SUITORS’ DEPOSIT ACOOUNT. For
merly suitors in the English court of chancery derived no income from their cash paid into court, unless it was invested at their request and risk. Now, however, it is provided by the court of chancery (funds) act, 1872,...
SUITORS’ FEE FUND
“Suit covenant” and “suit custom’ seem to have signified a right to one’s attendance, or one’s obligation to attend, at the lord’s court, founded upon a known covenant, or an immemorial usage or practice of...
SUITORS’ FUND IN CHANCERY
of suitors in that court were paid, and out of which the sglaries of various officers of the court were defrayed. Wharton.
SUITORS’ FUND IN CHANCERY. In
Sullivan (C. C.) 50 Fed
593; Dean v. State, 63 Ala. 154; Railroad Co. v. Trust Co. (C. °
Sullivan v. Thomas, 3 Rich
(S. C.) 531. Nee Court OF CHANCERY.