Category: S

See SOMPNOUB.

Higher; more elevated in rank or office. Possessing larger power. Entitled to command, Influence, or coutrol over another. In estates, some are superior to others. An estate entitled to a servitude or

In English law. All bills which relate to the public income or expenditure must originate with the house of commons, aud all bills authorizing expenditure of the public money are based upon

One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders, whether by manual operation, or

The process by which a parcel of land is measured and its contents ascer- tained ; also a statement of the result of such survey, with the courses and distances and the

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

L. Lat In old English law. A service or tenure of finding a sack and a broach (pitcher) to the sovereign for the use of the army. Bract 1. 2, c. 16.

Before mentioned. This word is constantly used in contracts, pleadings, and other legal papers, with the same force as “aforesaid.” See Shattuck v. Balcom, 170 Mass. 245, 49 N. E. S7; Cubine

An inferior and local court of record having jurisdiction in personal actions where the debt or damage sought to be recovered does not exceed

In the original sense of the word, a “sanction” is a penalty or punishment provided as a means of enforcing obedience to a law. In jurisprudence, a law is said to have

In Scotch law. The symbolical delivery of land, answering to the livery of seisin of the old English law. 4 Kent, Comm. 450.

This phrase, like “more or less,” is frequently introduced into con- veyances or contracts of sale, to indicate that the quantity of the subject-matter is uncertain, and is only estimated, aud to

In Saxon law. An officer having the civil government of a shire, or county; an earl. 1 Bl. Comm. 398.

A troublesome and angry wo- mau, who, by brawling and wrangling among her neighbors, breaks the public peace, increases discord, and becomes a public nui- sance to the neighborhood. 4 Steph. Comm.

In old practice. A species of roll or record, on which the bail on habeas corpus was entered.

Where a party to an action has been ordered to produce a document part of which is either irrelevant to the matters in question or is privileged from production, he may. by

To conceal or hide away. Particularly, to put property out of the reach of creditors, either by corporally liidiug it, or putting the title iu another’s name, or otherwise hindering creditors from

Lat. But by the court —- . This phrase is used in the reports to introduce a statement made by the court, on the argument, at variance with the propositions advanced by

A royalty or preroga tive of the sovereign, whereby an allowance of gold and silver, brought in the mass to be exchanged for coin, is claimed. Cowell. Mintage; the charge for coining