SERVI
Lat. Im old European law. Slaves; persons over whom their masters had absolute dominion
Terms beginning with "S" (870 total)
SERVICES FONOIERS
Fr. These are, in French law, the easements of English law. ‘Brown.
SERVITHS ACQUIETANDIS
and terms of the original. Leaving a copy at his place of abode is not personal service.
SERVITIUM
another, for the acquittal of such services. Lat. In feudal and old English law. The duty of obedience and performance which a tenant was bound to render to his lord, by reason of his fee. Spel- ‘man.
SERVITUDE
1. The condition of being bound to service; the state of a person ‘who is subjected, voluntarily or otherwise, to another person as his servant. ~Involuntary servitude. See INVOLUN- ‘TARY.—Penal servitude. In Engli...
SERVITUS
joyed by the dominant tenement. See Rowe v. Nally, 81 Md. 367, 32 Atl. 198.
SERVUS
Lat. In the civil and old English law. <A slave; a bondman. Inst. 1, 8, pr.; Bract. fol. 40.
Sess. Cas. Sc
Scotch Court of Session Cases.
Sess. Pap
0.C.0. Session Papers, Central Criminai Court.
SESSIO
Lat. In old English law. A sitting; a session. Sessto parltamenti, th
SESSION
Servitus est constitutio jure gentium qua quis domino alieno contra naturam subjicitur. Slavery is an institution by the law of nations, by which a man is subjected to the dominion of another, contrary to nature. Inst. 1...
Set
(or Sett. & Rem.) Cas. English Set-
SETTLE
a demand against the plaintiff to counterbalance his in whole or in part. Code Ga. 1882, § 2899. agreeing with his minutes: and his recollection. ee Railroad Co. y. Cone, 37 Kan. 567, 15 Pac. 499; In re Prout’s Estat...
Seuth. Soc
v.. Boston, 127 Mass. 879; Lefevre v. Detroit, 2 Mich. 589; Washington Heights M. E. Church v. New York, 20 fun (N. Y.) 2¥7.—Inner house, outer house. See those titles. Mansion house. See MANSIUN.~ Public house. An in...
SEVERALTY
term, as applied to the administration of an estate, is usually understood to have reference to
SEVERANCE
as pasture for the cattle of all the owners, and in some cases for the cattle of other persons as well; each owner is called a “severalty owner,” and his rights of pasture are called “severalty rights,” as oppose...
Severson, 100 Tenn
572, 72 S. W. 967.—Presumptive cry are A term occasionully used as the equivalent of “exemplary” or “punitive’ damages. Murphy v. Hobbs, 7 Colv. 841, 5 Pac. 119, 49 Am. Rep. 366.—Prospective damages. Damages ...
Sexton, 32 Mich
413, 20 Am. Rep. 654; State vy. Auditor of State, 15 Ohio St. 482.—8tate trial. <A trial for a political offense. —State Trials. A work in thirty-three volumes octavo, containing all English trials for offenses again...
SHAM PLEA
the proportion of two-twelfths, or one-sixth. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note. » o3
Shand. Shand's Reports, vols
11-44 South Carolina.
SHARE
SHARE. A portion of anythiu;. When a whole is divided into shares, they are not necessarily equal.
Sharpe v. U. S
112 Fed. 898, 50 C. C. A. 597, 57 L. R. A. 982; Little Rock Junction Ry. v.
Shaw, 39 Minn
153, 39 N. W. 305; State v. Morgan, 183 N. C. 748, 45 S. E. 1033.
Shaw, 73 Vt
149, 50 Atl. 863; In re Langslow, 167 N. Y. 314, 60 N. E. 590; In re 149, 50 Atl. 863.
Shaw, C. J., in Com
v. Webster, 5 Cush. (Mass.) 320, 52 Am. Dec. 711. And see further, Tompkins v. Butterfield (C. C.) 25 Fed 558: State v. Zdanowicz, 69 N. J. Law. 619, 55 Atl. 743; U.S. v. zones (C. C.) 91 Fed. 868; State v. May, 172 Mo. ...
Shelby idea & vy. Castetter, 7 Ind, App
309, 33 N. E. 966; Abbott v. Duluth MS C.) 104 Fed. 887: Heninger v. Peery, 102 Va. 896,47 S. E. 1018.—Road districts. Public or guasi municipal corporations organised or authorized by statutory authority in many of th...
Sheld
(or Sheldon). Sheldon’s Reports, Superior Court of Buffalo, New York.
Sheldon v. Milmo, 90 Tex
1, 36 S. W. 415. 1, 36 S. W. 413;
SHELLEY’S CASE, RULE IN. “When
the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, the ‘heirs’ are words o...
Shelton vy. Campbell
100 Tenn. 680, 72 S. W. 112.—Clear annuity. The devise of an annuity “clear” means an annuity free from taxes (Hodgworth v. Crawley, 2 Atk. 376) or free or clear of legacy or inheritance taxes. In re
Shep. Shepley’s Reports, vols
138-18 and 21-39 Maine;—Shepherd’s Reports, Alabama.
Shep. Touch
8. More commonly called the “note” of the fine. See FINE; Conocorn. 118. . 811.—Confirmatio diminuens. A diminishing confirmation. A_ confirmation which tends and serves.to diminish and abridge the services where...
Shepard, 124 N. Y¥
70, 26 N. E. 339; Sabledowsky v. Arbuckle, 50 Minn. 475, 52 N. W. 920; Ford v. Ford, 70 Wis. 19, 33 N. W. 188, 5 Am. St. Rep. 117. A particular estate is a limited estate which is taken out of the fee, ‘and which prece...
Shepherd, 8 Exch
37; Duffy v. Thompson, 4 E. D. Smith (N. Y.) 180; Choctaw, etc. R.
SHERIFF
SHEADING. A riding, tithing, or division in the Isle of Man, where the whole island is divided into six sheadings, in each of which there is a coroner or chief constable appointed by a delivery of a rod at the Tinewald c...
Sherlock, 25 Ohio St
65; Willard v. Insurance
Shewalter, 10 Ind. App
234, 37 N. E. 1072; Winter v. Kansas City Cable Ry. Co., 160
SHIN-PLASTER
court is the court-baron; for out of this, for the ease of the sheriff, was taken the court-leet or view of frank-pledge. 4 Bl. Comm. 273.
Shinn v. Tucker, 87 Ark
588. And see Hoffman v. Loud, 111 Mich. 158, 68 N. W. 231;
SHIP
BONO ET MALO. A special writ of jail delivery, which formerly issued of course for each particular prisoner. 4 BL tion less than a dollar. Webster. See Madigon Ins. Co. v. Forsythe, 2 Ind. 483.
Shipbuilding Co
(C. C.) 123 Fed. 916. COMMAND. An order, imperative direc-
Shipp
71, 113. The master may hypothecate the ship for necessaries supplied abroad so as to bind the owner. Sweet. See The Plymouth Rock, 19 Fed. Cas. 898; Hubbard v.
Shipp. Shipp’s Reports, vols
66, 67 North Carolina.
SHIPPER
1. The owner of goods who intrusts them on board a vessel for delivery abroad, by charter-party or otherwise.
SHIPPING
ied on port-towns and other places for fitting out ships; revived by Charles I., and abolished in the same reign. 17 Car. I. c. 14.—Ship’s bill. The copy of the bill of merne retained by the master is called the “s...
Shirl. Shirley’s Reports, vols
49-55 New Hampshire.
SHiving cattle
7 Bell. App. Cas. 43, 53, 57. A drift-road. Lord Brougham, Id.-Drove-
Shoe Mach. Co
v. Jackson, 112 Fed. 146, 56 C. C. A. 159, 55 L R. A. 692; Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Ohio Brass Co., 80 Fed. 712, 26 C. C. A. 1073; Stud Co. v. O’Brien (GQ
SHORT NOTICE
sale of goods are frequently called “stores.”
SHORT SUMMONS
SHORT SUMMONS. A process, authorized in some of the states, to be issued against an absconding, fraudulent, or nonresident debtor, which is returnable within a less number of days than an ordinary writ of summons.