RUNNING OF THE STATUTE OF
LIMITATIONS. <A metaphorical expression, by which is meant that the time mentioned in the statute of limitations is considered as passing. 1 Bouy. Inst. no. 861.
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S. 252, 25 L. Ed
826.—Conscience, courts -of. Courts, not of record, constituted by act of parliament in the city of London, and other towns, for the recovery of small debts; otherwise and more commonly called “Courts of Reguests.” 3 Steph. Comm. 451.—Conscie...
S. W. 229; Price v. Price, 156 Pa
617, 27 Atl. 291; White v. Brown, 29 Fed. Cas. 992. The alga terms are also used: Commercial domicile. A domicile acquired by the maintenance of a commercial establishment; a domicile which a citizen of a foreign country may acquire ny conducting bus...
SALVO
Lat. Saving; excepting; without prejudice to. Salvo me et heredibus meis, except me and my heirs. Salvo jure cujuslidbet, without prejudice to the rights of any one.
SCRIBA
Lat. A scribe; a secretury. Soritda regis, a king’s secretary; a chancellor. Spelman.
SEAWORTHINESS
SEALS. In Louisiana. Seals are placed upon the effects of a deceased person, in certain cases, by a public officer, as a method ofr taking official custody of the succession. See
SECRETARY
second or next to the chief officer. In the king’s bench he was called “Master of the King’s Bench Office,” and was a deputy of the prothonotary or chief clerk. 1 Archb.
See CHARITABLE USES
RELINQUISHMENT. In practice. A forsaking, abandoning, renouncing, or giving over a right.
See Getchell & Martin Lumber Co
v. Peterson, 124 Iowa, 599, 100 N. W. 550; Morgnnton Mfg. Co. v. Ohio River, etc, Ry. Co., 121 N. C. 514, 28 S. BE. 474, 61 Am. St. Rep. 679; Citizens’ Bank v. Farwell, 56 Fed. 570, 6 C. C. A. 24; Indianapolis, D. & W.
See LETTER OF ATTORNEY
POWER OF DISPOSITION. Every power of. disposition is deemed absolute, by means of which the donee of such power is enabled in his life-time to dispose of the entire fee for his own benefit; and, where a general and beneficial power to devise the inhe...
SEOURITATEM INVENIENDI. An
ancient writ, lying for the sovereign, against any of his subjects, to stay them from going out of the kingdom to foreign parts; the ground whereof is that every man is bound to serve and defend the commonwealth as the crown shall think fit. Fitzh. N...
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 opposed to the rights of persons not...
SITUS
Lat. Site; position; location; the place where a thing is, considered, for example, with reference to jurisdiction over — it, or the right or power to tax it. See Boyd v. Selma, 96 Ala. 144, 11 South. 803, 16 L.
SLOUGH
SLAVERY. The condition of a slave; that civil relation in which one man has absolute power over the life, fortune, and liberty of another.
Smith, 82 Minn
342, 85 N. W. 12. Also an émblem, pictorial representation, or distinguishing mark or sign of any kind; as in the idws prohibiting the marking of ballots used in public elections 'with “any device.” Baxter v. Ellis, 111 N. C. 124, 15 8. E. 988, ...
Smith. Lead. Cas
179. By this phrase, in the rulé under which courts of equity allow set-off in cases of mutual credit. we are to understand a knowledge on both sides of an existing debt due to one party, and a credit by the other party. founded on and trusting to s...
Smith’s Reports, vols
2-4 Dakota;— J. P. Smith’s English King’s Bench Reports; — Smith, in continuation of Fox & Smith;— Smith, English Registration;—P. F. Smith’s Pennsylvania State Reports;— E. P. Smith’s 1-11
SPECIE
1. Coin of the precious metals, of a certain weight and fineness, and bearing the stamp of the government, denoting its value as currency. Trebilcock Vv.
SPECIFICATION
special provision as to a particular subjectmatter is to be preferred to general language, which might have governed in the absence of such special provision. L. R. 1 C. P. 546.
SPONSIO
Lat. In the civil law. An engagement or undertaking; particularly such as was made in the form of an answer to a formal interrogatory by the other party. Calvin.
SPONTE OBLATA
lat. A free gift or present to the crown.
STATE OF FACTS
the state and others partaking in some degree of that character, from the ninth year of Hen. ITI. to the first of Geo. IV.
State v. Brown, 19 Fla
598.—Kocal preju- The “prejudice or local influence” which will warrant the removal of a cause from a state court to a federal court may be either prejudice and influence existing against the party seeking such removal or existing in favor
State v. Chambers, 93 N.-C
600—Public statute. A statute enacting a universal rule which regards the whole community, as distin-
State, bo Ala
15.—Public purposo. In the law of taxation, eminent domain, etc., this is a term of classification to distinguish the objects for which, according to settled usage, the government is to provide, from those which, by the like unese, ate left to priv...
STATU LIBER
ranging facts illustrative of the condition and resources of a state. The subject is sometimes divided into (1) historical statistics, or facts which illustrate the former condition of a state; (2) statistics of population; (3) of revenue; (4) of tra...
STOWAGE
violent depredation on the highway, or accompanied by house-breaking. Alis. Prin. Scotch Law, 227.
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.
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 rule or an order made in an in...
SUBREPTIO
Lat. In the civil law. Obtaining gifts of escheat, etc., from the king by concealing the truth. Bell; Calvin.