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SIX ACTS,

THE. The acts passed in 1819, for the pacification of England, are so called. They, in effect prohibited the training of persons to arms; authorized general searches and seizure of arms; prohibited

SLIGHT

As to slight “Care,” “Evidence,” “Fault,” and “Negligence,” see those titles.

SOBRE-JUEZES

In Spanish law. Superior judges. Las I’artidas, pt 3, tit 4, 1. 1.

SOCOME

A custom of grinding corn at the lord’s mill. Cowell. Boud-socome is where the tenants are bound to it Blount.

SOLEMNIZE

o solemnize, spoken of a marriage, means no more than to enter into a marriage contract with due publication, before third persons, for the purpose of giving it notoriety and certainty; which

SOLVIT

Lat He paid; paid. 10 East, 20G.

SOUGH

In English law. A drain or water-course. The channels or water-courses used for draining mines are so termed; and those mines which are near to any given sough, and lie within the

SOWNE

In old English law. To be leviable. An old exchequer term applied to sheriff’s returns. 4 Inst. 107; Cowell; Spelman.

SPECULATION

In commerce. The act or practice of buying lands, goods, etc.. in expectation of a rise of price and of selling them at an advance, as distinguished from a regular trade, in

SPOLIUM

Lat. In the civil and common law. A thing violently or unlawfully taken from another.

SPY

A person sent into an enemy’s camp to inspect their works, ascertain their strength and their intentions, watch their movements, and secretly communicate intel- ligence to the proper officer. By the laws

STAMP

An Impression made by public authority, in pursuance of law, upon paper or parchment, upon which certain legal proceedings, conveyances, or contracts are re- quired to be written, and for which a

STATEMENT

In a general sense, an allegation; a declaration of matters of fact. The term has come to be used of a variety of formal narratives of facts, required by law in various

STATUTORY

Relating to a statute; created or defined by a statute; required by a statute; conforming to a statute.

STIPES

Lat. In old English law. Stock ; a stock; a source of descent or title. Communis stipes, the common stock. Fleta, lib. 6, c. 2.

STOWE

Iu old English law. A valley. Co. Litt. 40.

STRICT

As to strict “Construction,” ‘

STULTILOQUIUM

Lat. In old English law. Vicious pleading, for which a flue was imposed by King John, supposed to be the origin of the fines for beau-pleader. Crabb, Eng. Law, 135. STUMPAGE 1115

SUBHASTARE

Lat In the civil law. To sell at public auction, which was done sub hasta, under a spear; to put or sell under the spear. Calvin.

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