Category: S

L. Lat. A man of straw, oue of no substance, put forward as bail or surety.

Lat. Of the strictest right or law. “Licenses beiug matter of special indulgence, the application of them was formerly strictissimi juris.” 1 Edw. Adm. 328.

Lat. In the civil law. Unlawful intercourse with a woman. Distinguished from adultery as being committed with a virgin or widow. Dig. 48, 5, 6.

The system which the feudal tenants introduced of granting smaller estates out of those which they held of their lord, to be held of themselves as inferior lords. As this system was

The substitution of one thing for another, or of one person into the place of another with respect to rights, claims, or securities. Subrogation denotes the putting a third person who has

In French law. The fraudulent appropriation of any property, but particularly of the goods of a decedent’s estate.

Lat. A grant or sufferance of peace or truce.

Those persons who by his authority follow or attend an ambassador or other public minister.

Eat Strict right; extreme right The extremity or rigor of the law. Summnm jns, summa injuria; summa lex, summa crux. Extreme law (rigor of law) Is’ the greatest Injury; strict law is

In English law. An ofiicer who superintends the registers of births, deaths, and marriages. There is one in every poor-law union in England and Wales.

In English law. The “supplies” in parliamentary proceedings signify the sums of money which are annually voted by the house of commons for the maintenance of tlie crown and the various public

See WATER.

Lat. A surrender.

Warth-money; or guard-money paid in lieu of the service of castle-ward. Cowell.

The art or cunning rightly to form and make written instru- ments. It is either judicial or extrajudicial; the latter being wholly occupied with such instruments as concern matters not yet judicially

Span. Seven parts. See LAS PARTIDAS.

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.