SUUS JUDEX
Lat. In old, English law. A proper judge; a judge having cognizance of a cause. Literally, one’s own judge.
Terms beginning with "S" (870 total)
Swab
(or Swab. Admr.). Swabey’s English Admiralty Reports.
SWAMP LANDS. See LAND
“4 SW ARFE-MONEY. Warth-money; or
Swans
(or Swanst.). Chancery Reports.
SWEAR
1. To put on oath; to administer an oath to a person.
Sweet
emorandum error. <A _ document alleging error in fact, accompanied by an affidavit of such matter of fact.—Memorandum of alteration. Formerly, in England, where a patent was granted for two inventions, one of which was...
Sweet. Post v. Post, 14 Barb
(N. Y.) 258; Spalding v. Hall, 6 D. C. 125; Cunningham v.
Swensen, 40 Minn
421, 42 N. W. 290; Dodge v. Jones, 7 Mont. 121, 14 Pac. 707; Stevens v. Irwin, 15 Cal. 503. 76 Am. Dec. 500.—Ac-= tual cost. The actual price paid for goods by a party, in the case of a real bona fide purchase, and not...
Swett, 6 Metc
(Mass.) 194, 89 Am. Dec. 716; Tillinghast v. Brown University, 24 R. I. 179, 52 Atl. 891; Lowery v. Lowery, 64 N. C. 110; Raleigh vy. Rogers, 25 N. J. Eq. 506. Or one against whom error has been committed.
Switzler, 143 Mo
287, 45 S. W. 245, 40 L. R.
SWORN CLERKS IN OCHANCERY
Certain officers in the English court of chancery, whose duties were to keep the records, make copies of pleadings, etc. Their offices
Sylia. Dig
48, 8; Calvin—Lex Falcidia. The Falcidian law; a law passed on the motion: of the tribune P. Falcidius, A. U. C. 718, for-. bidding a testator to give more in legacies than three-fourths of all his estate, or, in other...
SYLLABUS
SWEIN. In old English law. A freeman or freeholder within the forest.
SYLLOGISM
SYLLOGISM. In logic. The full logical form of a single argument. It consists of three propositions, (two premises and the conclusion,) and these contain three terms, of which the two occurring in the conclusion are broug...
SYLVA CZ/DUA
Lat. In ecclesiastical law. Wood of any kind which was kept on purpose to be cut, and which, being cut, grew again from the stump or root. Lynd.
SYMBOLUM ANIMZ
Lat. A mortuary, or soul-scot.
SYNALLAGMATIO OONTRAOT. In
the civil law. A bilateral or reciprocal contract, in which the parties expressly enter _ into mutual engagements, each binding himself to the other. Poth. Obl. no. 9.
SYNODALES TESTES
L. Lat. Synods-men (corrupted into sidesmen) were the urban and rural deans, now the nee dens.
SYPHILIS
ica. The term is also applied to the person appointed to manage the affairs of a corpora-
Sz0
Lat. Thus; so; in such manner.