Category: S

Lat. A scribe; a secretary. Scriba regis, a king’s secretary; a chancellor. Spelman. Scribere est agere. To write Is to act. Treasonable words set down in writing amount to overt acts of

In old English law. Shire; county; the inhabitants of a county.

This adjective, applied to a vessel, signifies that she is properly con- structed. prepared, manned, equip]>ed, and provided, for the voyage intended. See SEAWORTHINESS.

gats et probata. According to what is alleged and proved; according to the allegations and proofs. 15 East, 81; Cloutman v. Tunison, 1 Sumn. 375, Fed. Cas. No. 2,907.

An insurrectionary movement tending towards treason, but wanting an overt act; attempts made by meetings or speeches, or by publications, to disturb the tranquillity of the state. The distinction between “sedition” and

See SEISIN.

Lat. In the civil law. A nursery of trees. Dig. 7, 1, 9, 6.

In old European law. A title of office and dignity, derived from the middle ages, answering to that of steward or high steward in England. Seneschals were originally the lieutenants of the

In English law. The statute 1 Geo. I. St. 2, c. 3S. The act by which a parliament has continuance for seven years, and no longer, unless sooner dissolved; as it always

In the feudal polity, the serfs were a class of persons whose social condition was servile, and who were bound to labor and onerous duties at the will of their lords. They

In Spanish law. A servitude. The right and use which one man has in the buildings and estates of another, to use them for the benefit of his own. Las Partldas, 3,

To set aside a judgment decree, award, or any proceedings is to cancel, annul, or revoke them at the instance of a party unjustly or irregularly affected by them. State v. Primm,

One who guards the sea-coast; custos maris.

While “shave” is sometimes used to denote the act of obtaining the property of another by oppression aud extortion, it may be used in an innocent sense to denote the buying of

In the practice of the English high court, when a view by a jury Is ordered, persons are named by the court to show the property to be viewed, and are hence

In old records, a shop. Cowell.

Lat. If it be so. Emphatic words in the old writ of mandamus to a judge, commanding him, if the fact alleged be truly stated, (si ita est,) to affix his seal

One of the names of the first day of the week; more properly called “Sunday,” (q. v.) See State v. Drake, 04 N. C. 591; Gunn v. State, 89 Ga. 341, 15

A denomination of part of the county palatine of Durham. Wharton.

A tax imposed in England and France, in 1188, by l’oj>e innocent 111., to raise a fund for the crusade undertaken by Richard I. of England and Philip Augustus of France, against