Category: S

To hold a session, as of a court, grand jury, legislative body, etc. To be formally organized and proceeding with the transaction of business. See Allen v. State, 102 Ga. 010, 29

The condition of a slave; that civil relation in which one man has absolute power over the life, fortune, and liberty of another. See, e.g., What Are Crimes Against Humanity?

The offense of importing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed indifferently either upon

An association or company of persons (generally not Incorporated) unit ed together for any mutual or common purpose. In a wider seuse, the community or public; the people in general. See New

Lat. In the civil law. A rent paid for the ground, where a person built on the public land. A ground rent Spelman; Calvin.

Ability to pay; present ability to pay; ability to pay one’s debts out of one’s own present means. Marsh >v. Dunckel, 25 Hun (N. Y.) 100; Osborne v. Smith (C. C.) IS

In Scotch law. A person who takes meat and drink from others by force or menaces, without paying for it Bell. SOROR 1098 SOVEREIGN

Relating to or designating a species, kind, or sort; designed for a particular purose; confined to a particular purpose, object, person or class. The opposite of “genera”.

1. Coin of the precious metals, of a certain weight and fineness, and bearing the stamp of the government, denoting its value as currency. Trebilcock v. Wilson, 12 Wall. 005, 20 L.

These are inflammable liquids produced by distillation, and forming an article of commerce. See Rlankenship v. State, 93 Ga. 814, 21 S. E. 130; State v. Munger, 15 Vt. 293; Allred v.

A fountain of water; an issue of water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of its issue. Webster. A natural chasm in which water has collected, aud

A deposit made to answer an event, as on a wager. See Harris v. White, SI N. Y. 539; Porter v. Day, 71 Wis. 296. 37 N. W. 259; Mohr v. Miesen,

the state and others partaking in some degree of that character, from the ninth year of Hen. II. to the first of Geo. IV.

The status of a person is his legal position or condition. Thus, when we say that the status of a woman after a decree nisi for the dissolution of her marriage with

The man who marries a widow, she having a child by her former marriage, is step-father to such child.

In English law. Limit; a limited number. Used as descriptive of a species of common. See COMMON SANS NOMBRE.

The act by which the unpaid vendor of goods stops their progress and resumes possession of them, while they are in course of transit from him to the purchaser, and not yet

See ESTRAY.

The words “with strong hand” imply a degree of criminal force, whereas the words vi et armis (“with force and arms”) are mere formal words in the action of trespass, and the

An under-agent; a substituted ageut; an agent appointed by one who is himself au ageut 2 Kent, Comm. 633.