Category: S

In English law. One of the privy council; also an usher, who sees good rule and silence kept in court. Wharton.

In ecclesiastical law. When a rector of a parish neither resides nor perforins duty at his benefice, but has a vicar under him endowed and charged with the cure thereof, this is

In English law. A liquor license, containing a condition that the premises in respect of which the license is granted shall be closed during the whole of Sunday, granted under section 49

A rent paid to the castle of Wigmore, iu lieu of certain days’ work in harvest, heretofore reserved to the lord from his tenants. Cowell.

A seigniory or lordship, enfranchised by the king, with liberty of holdiug a court of his socmen or socaycrs; i. e., his tenants.

The surface, or surface-covering of the land, uot Including minerals beneath it or grass or plants growing upon it But in a wider (and more usual) sense, the term is equivalent to

Lat. In the civil law. A whole; an entire or undivided thing.

In ecclesiastical law, an oflicer of the ecclesiastical courts whose duty was to serve citations or process.

Whole; in good condition; marketable. So used in warranties of chat- tels. See Brown v. Bigelow, 10 Allen (Mass.) 242; Hawkins v. Pemberton, 35 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 3S3; Woodbury v. Bobbins,

Lat. Here and there; scattered ; at intervals. For instance, trespass to realty by cutting timber sparsim (here and there) through a tract

The formation of words by letters; orthography. Incorrect spelling does not vitiate a written instrument If the intention clearly appears.

Lat. In the civil law. Espousal; betrothal; a reciprocal promise of future marriage.

A contraction of “esquire.”

A district whicb includes all parts of Devon and Cornwall where some tin work is situate and in actual operation. The tin miners of the stannaries have certain peculiar customs and privileges.

Exhibiting, or listing in their order, the items which make up an account.

In practice. A stopping; the act of arresting a judicial proceeding, by the order of a court. See In re Schwarz (D. C.) 14 Fed. 7SS.

A person employed in loading aud unloading vessels. The Senator (D. C.) 21 Fed. 191; Rankin v. Merchants’ & M. Transp. Co., 73 Ga. 232, 54 Am. Rep. 874; The Elton, 83

or, with a view to their being released or discharged by an acoeptilatio, that mode of discharge being applicable only to the verbal contract Brown.

A shore or bank of the sea or a river. Doane v. Willcutt, 5 Gray (Mass.) 335, 00 Am. Dec. 309; Hell v. Hayes, U0 App. Div. 382. 09 X. Y. Supp.

Lat In strict law. 1 Kent, Comm. 65.