SODS8
ARRENDAMIENTO. In Spanish law. The contract of letting and hiring an estate or land, (heredad.) White, Recop. b. 2, tit. 14, c«. 1. :
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SOLUTIO
Lat. In civil law. Payment, satisfaction, or release; any species of discharge of an obligation accepted as satisfactory by the creditor. The term refers not so much to the counting out of money as to the substance of the obligation. Dig. 46, 3, 54; ...
SOLVERE
Lat. To pay; to comply with one’s engagement; te do what one has undertaken to do; to release one’s self from obligation, as by payment of a debt. Calvin.
SOUS SEING PRIVE
Fr. In French law. Under private signature; under the private signature of the parties. A contract or instrument thus signed is distinguished from an “authentic act,” which is formally concluded before a notary or judge. Civil
SOVEREIGN
case in real or mixed actions or the personal action of debt or detinue,) but for damages only, as in covenant, trespass, etc., the action is said to be “sounding in damages.” Steph. ry” rights as a state, like any private person, may have in ...
St. N. ¥
764. And see Moorhead v. Seymour (City Ct. N. Y.) 77 N. Y. Supp. 1054; Taylor v. Webster, 39 N. J. Law, 104.—~Mining partnership. See MINING.—Particular partnership. One existing where the parties have united to share the benefits of a single ind...
STANDARD OF WEIGHT
government, and required to be attached to mail-matter, and to some other articles subject to duty or excise. a —Stamp acts. In English law. Acts regulating the stamps upon deeds, contracts, agreements, papers in law proceedings, bills and notes, l...
STATE
STARR, or STARRA. The old term for contract or obligation among the Jews, being a corruption from the Hebrew word “shetar,” a covenant. By an ordinance of Richard I., no starr was allowed to be valid, unless deposited in one of certain repositori...
State vy. Carr, 28 Or
389, 42 Pac. 215.—Inmocent conveyances. A technical term of the English law of conveyancing, used to designate such conveyances as may be made by a leasehold tenant without working a forfeiture. These are said to be lease and re-lease, bargain and ...
States. Brande. An
agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns or the supreme power of each state. Webster; Cherokee
STAURUM
is ambiguous, and any subsequent enactment involves a particular interpretation of the former act, it is said to contain a statutory exposition of the former act. Wharton.—Statuto—- ry foreclosure. See FORECLOSURE.—Stat~ utory obligation. An ob...
Stelloh, 74 Wis
425. 43 N. W. 99; Danforth vy. Crookshanks, 68 Mo. App: 316. In the law of insurance, an agreement expressed in a policy, whereby the assured stipulates that certain facts relating to the risk are or shall be true, or certain acts relating to the sam...
Stevens, 89 Me
336, 36 Atl. 398. ~—Incumbrances, covenant against. Sce CovENANT. é
STIPULATIO
they are apparently born alive, if they do not in fact survive so long as to rebut this presumption of law, they cannot inherit, so as to transmit the property to others. Marsellis v. Thalhimer, 2 Paige (N. Y.) 41, 21 Am. Lat. In the Roman law, stip...
STIPULATION
or, with a view to their being released or discharged by an eccopriets: that mode of discharge being applicable only to the verbal contract. Brown.
STITUTION
In public and international law. A pact or agreement between states or nations in the nature of a treaty; usually applied (a) to agreements or arrangements preliminary to a formal treaty or to serve as its basis, or (b) international agreements for t...
Stockett. Stockett’s Reports, vols
27-79 Maryland. ,, Stockt. Oh. Stockton’s New J ersey Chantery Reports. ' Story. Story’s United States Circuit Court Reports. See, also, Sto. Story, Ag. Story on Agency. Story, Bailm. Story on Bailments. Story, Bills. Story on Bills. Story, Confl...
Story, Eq. Pl
(Sth Ed.) § 311; Wright v. Superior Court, 139 Cal. 469, 73 Pac. 145; Lverson v. Assur. Co. (C. C.) 68 Fed. 258; State v. Savings Co., 28 Or. 410, 43 Pac. 163—Bill of information. Where a suit is instituted on behalf of the crown or government, or...
STREPITUS
also said to be strangers to the covenant. Brown. See Robblns v. Chicago, 4 Wall. 672, 18 L. Ed. 427; O’Donnell v. Mcintyre, 118 N. Y. 156, 23 N. E. 4355; Bennett v.
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, supposed to be the origin of the fi...
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 regard to quantity, and is in...
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.
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 duly executed is suppressio ver...
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 ancestors. “Suit regal” w...
SUPPRESSIO VERI
Lat. Suppression or concealment of the truth. “It is a' rule of equity, as well as of law, that a suppressto veri is equivalent to a suggestio falst; and where either the suppression of the truth . or the suggestion of what is false can be proved, ...
SURPRISE
contract is taken unawares, by which sudden confusion or perplexity is created, which renders it proper that a court of equity should relieve the party so surprised. 2
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.
TABELLIO
Lat. In Roman law. An officer corresponding in some respects to a notary. His business was to draw legal instruments, (contracts, wills, etc.,) and witness their execution. Calvin.
TACIT
T he would have no right to do but in his capacity as heir. Civ. Code La. 1900, art. —Tacit hypothecation. In the civil law, a species of lien or mortgage which is created by. operation of law without any express agreement of the parties. Mackeld....