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.
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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.
SUPERNUMERARIT
Lat. In Roman law. Advocates who were not registered or enrolled and did not belong to the college of advocates. They were not attached to any local jurisdiction. See StTatutTI1.
SUPPLEMENT, LETTERS OF. In
Scotch practice. A process by which a party not residing within the jurisdiction of an inferior court may be cited to appear before it. Bell.
SUPRA
SUPPLIES. In English law. The “supplies” in parliamentary proceedings signify the sums of money which are annually voted by the house of commons for the maintenance of the crown and the various public services. Jacob; Brown. Lat. Above; upon. Th...
SURCHARGE
courts of the’ judges or commissioners of assize ; and (2) the appellate jurisdiction of such o those courts as heard appeals from inferior courts. Judicature act, 1873, § 16.
SURROGATE
ter to the people, unless'the charter was granted under a statute, imposing indefeasible duties on the bodies to which it applies.
TALLA
CATANEUS. A tenant in capite. A tenant holding immediately of the crown. Spelman.
TAURI LIBERI LIBERTAS. Iat. A
common bull; because he was free to all the tenants within such a manor, liberty, etc.
TESTAMENT
of fees held either immediately of the king or of others who held of the king tn capite ; fees holden in frankalmoigne; serjeanties holden of the king; widows and heiresses of tenants in capite, whose marriages were in the gift of the king; churches ...
TESTAMENTI FACTIO
lIat. In the civil law. The ceremony of making a testa- ‘ment, either as testator, heir, or wituess.
TESTE MEIPSO. Iat
Jaw and practice. A solemn formula of attestation by the sovereign, used at the conclusion of charters, and other public instruments, and also of original writs out of chantery. Spelman.
Texas Appeals, also vols
1, 2 Texas Court of Appeals, Civil Cases. , _ Wilm. Wilmot’s Notes of Opinions, English King’s Bench.
The 18 & 19 Vict
c. 48, (amended by 20 & 21 Vict. c. 1,) abolishes all jurisdiction and authority of the lord warden of the Cinque Ports and constable of Dover Castle, in or in relation to the administration of justice in actions, suits, or other civil proceedings at...
The Adeline, 9 Cranch, 244, 284, 3 L. Ed
719. —Prize law.. The system of laws and rules applicable to the capture of prize at sea; its condemnation, rights of the captors, distribution of the proceeds, etc. The Buena Ventura (D.-C.) S87 Fed. 929.—Prise money. A dividend from the proceed...
The English statute of 2 Wm. IV
c. 39, establishing a uniform process for the com-. mencement of actions in all the courts of law at Westminster. 3 Steph. Comm. 566.
The office was abolished by St
15 & 16 Vict. ce. 87, § 23.—Secretary of embassy. A diplomatic officer appointed as secretary or assistant to an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.—Secretary of legation, An officer employed to attend a foreign mission and to perform certai...
The statute 1 Geo. I. St
2, c. 38. The act by which a parliament has continuance for seven years, and no longer, unless sooner dissolved; as it always has, in fact, been since the passing of the act. Wharton.
The statute 33 & 34 Vict
c. 27. By this act it is provided that the exhibition of new inventions shall not prejudice patent rights, and that the exhibition of designs shall not prejudice the right to registration of such designs.
The statute of 10 Geo. IV
c. 7, by which Roman Catholics were restored, in general, to the full enjoyment of all civil rights, except that of holding ecclesiastical offices, and certain high appointments in the state. 8
THELONIO IRRATIONABILI HA
BENDO. A writ that formerly lay for him that had any part of the king’s demesne in fee-farm, to recover reasonable toll of the king’s tenants there, if his demesne had been accustomed to be tolled. Keg. Orig. 87:
These were of several sorts, such
as the wttena-gemot, or meeting of the wise men; the folc-gemot, or general assembly of the people; the shire-gemot, or county court; the burg-gemot, or borough court; the hundredgemot, or hundred court; the hali-gemot, or court-baron; the hal-mote, ...
They were twenty-five in number
1 Bl Comm, 96.—Articles of war. Codes framed for the government of a nation’s army are commonly thus called. ,
Things personal consist of goods
money, and all other movables, and of such rights and profits as relate to movables. 1 Steph. Comm. 156.:'See People v. Holbrook. 13 Johns. (N. %) 90; U. 8. v. Moulton, 27 Fed. Cas. 11;
This is the statute 38 & 39 Vict
e. 91, amended by the acts of 1876 and 1877. It provides for the establishment of a register of trade-marks wWnder the superintendence of the commissioners of patents, and for the registration of trade-
Thom. Const
L. (or L. C.). Thomas’ Leading Cases on Constitutional Law.
TIVE LAW; ADMINISTBATIVE LAW: BAank
RUPTCY LAW; CANON Law; CasE Law: CIvrm Law; Commercirat Law; Common Law; CONSTITUTIONAL Law; CrBiminaL Law: Forest Law; INTERNATIONAL Law; MakRi- TIME Law; MarsTiaL LAW; MERCANTILE Law; Mruirary Law; Morat Law; Mv-
To take into one’s family
the child of another and give him or her the rights, privileges, and duties of’a child and heir. State v. Thompson,, 13 La. Ann. 515; Abney v. De
TOLL 1160
bought and sold. It is a reasonable sum of money-due to the owner of the fair or market, upon Bale of things tollable within the same. The word is used for a liberty as well to take as to be free from toll. Jacob. oe
TONNETIGHT
The quantity of a ton or tun, in a ship’s freight or bulk, for which tonnage or tunnage was paid to “ king. Cowell. -