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SR-22

A court document required in cases involving certain traffic violations that demonstrates the financial responsibility of the convicted person.

Second Named Insured

The second person named on an auto insurance policy and who has the same coverage as the Named Insured.

Salvage Titles

A type of vehicle title branding which states that a vehicle has been damaged and/or declared a total loss by an insurance company that paid a claim on it. Requirements for salvage

STATUTE PRIVATE

a the law that concerns a person or a group of people. See statute, personal.

STATUTORY EXPOSITION

the term given to the explanation in a statute of confusing or an ambiguous provision in an earlier statute.

SOLEMNITY OF CONTRACT

the concept that says that 2 or more people are free to make an agreement that they wish and it will be respected and enforced.

SUBSTITUTION BY WILL

1. A codicil in a will that replaces an old beneficiary with a new one. 2. To gift over by giving a gift of a bequest to another person as the original

SURETY COMPANY

the name that is given to a company whose business it to assume the responsibility and payment guarantee for the obligations of another person or company.

STATUTE ENABLING

a law that gives the right to people and corporations to do a thing that they were not previously allowed to do.

SALE FRAUDULENT

the term that describes a sale that is made to avoid legal obligations to a person’s creditors.

SEISIN IN DEED

a term that means the actual possession of land and is the same as seisin in fact and an actual seisin.

SUBSEQUENT

this is an event that has taken place after another event.

SADISM

a term applied to a person who seeks pleasure or sexual gratification by hurting someone mentally or by inflicting pain.

SERVICE BY MAIL

This means to serve a summons by way of mailing it to the person’s address that si done when it is impossible to deliver it directly.

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