Category: S

A writ for delivery of seisin to the lord, of lands and tenements, after the sovereign, in right of his prerogative, had had the year, day, and waste on a felony committed,

Lat. In the civil law. Half-full proof; half-proof. 3 BL. Comm. 370. See HALF-PROOF.

In old English law. A seneschal; a steward; the steward of a manor. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 72

Lat. In old English law. A hedge or iuclosure. The inclosure of a trench or canal. Dig. 43, 21, 4.

In English ecclesiastical law. A judicial writ for the discharging a sequestration of the profits of a church benefice, granted by the bishop at the sovereign’s command, thereby to compel the parson

Fr. These are, in French law, the easements of English law. Brown.

This word appears to be nearly synonymous with “lease.” A lease of mines is frequently termed a “mining set” Brown.

In pleading. Separation ; division. The separation by defendants in their pleas; the adoption, by several defendants, of separate pleas, instead of joining in the same plea. Steph. PI. 257. In estates.

In Hindu law. The iustrument of government or instruction; any book of instructions, particularly containing Divine ordinances. Wharton.

A word used by the authorities of the Roman Church, to specify contemptuously the technical parts of the law, as administered by non-clerical lawyers. Wharton.

A building in which goods and merchandise are sold at retail, or where mechanics work, and sometimes keep their products for sale. See State v. Morgan, 98 N. C. 041, 3 S.

Lat. If [he] make you secure. In practice. The initial and emphatic words of that description of original writ which directs the sheriff to cause the defendant to appear in court, without

An abbreviation for “sub voce,” under the word; used in references to dic- tionaries, and other works arranged alphabetically.

A sexton, anciently called “sagerson,” or “sagiston;” the keeper of things belonging to divine worship.

In old English law. A lord’s right of amercing his tenants in his court. Keilw. 145. Acquittance of suit at county courts and hundred courts. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 47,

Lat Saving; excepting; without prejudice to. Salvo me et hccredibus meis, except me and my heirs. Salvo jure eujuslibet, without prejudice to the rights of any one.

Fr. Without expense. See RETOUH SANS 1’I:OT

L. Fr. Safely. Sauve- mcnt yardes, safely kept Britt c. 87.

In equity pleading. See SCANDAL.

Lat. To-wit; that is to say. A word used in pleadings and other instru- ments, as introductory to a more particular statement of matters previously mentioned in general terms. Hob. 171, 172.