Category: S

In Hindu law. Variable imposts distinct from laud, rents, or revenues; consisting of customs, tolls, licenses, duties on goods; also taxes on houses, shops, ba- zaars, etc. Wharton.

In Saxon law. A tax paid to sheriffs for keeping the shire or county court. Cowell.

In old English law. A tax, or tribute; one’s share of a contribution.

In old European law. Shaken or beaten out; threshed, as grain. Spelman.

Sailors; mariners; persons whose business is navigating ships. Commonly exclusive of the officers of a ship.

“A religious sect is a body or number of persons united in tenets, but con- stituting a distinct organization or party, by holding sentiments or doctrines different from those of other sects

Lat But inquire; examine this further. A remark indicating, briefly, that the particular statement or rule laid down is doubted or challenged in respect to its correctness. SED VIDE 1067 SEISED IN

A female superior.

In old English law. A ridge of ground rising between two furrows, containing no certain quantity, but sometimes more and sometimes less. Termes de la Ley.

Lat. In Roman law. The senate; the great national council of the Roman people. The place where the senate met. Calvin.

Lat. Separately. Used in indictments to indicate that two or more defendants were charged separately, and not jointly, with the commission of tlie offense in question. State v. Edwards, 00 Mo. 490.

In the civil law. To renounce or disclaim, etc. As when a widow came into court and disclaimed having anything to do with her deceased husband’s estate, she was said to sequester.

A servant is one who is employed to render personal services to his employer, otherwise than in the pursuit of an independent calling, and who in such service remains entirely under the

Lat In the civil law. Slavery ; bondage; the state of service. Defined as “an institution of tlie conventional Olaw of nations, by which one person is subjected to the dominion of

In conveyancing. A disposition of property by deed, usually through the medium of a trustee, by which its enjoyment is limited to several persons in succession, as a wife, children, or other

In English law. The straying and escaping of cattle out of the lands of their owners into other uninclosed laud; an intercommoning of cattle. 2 H. Bl. 416. It sometimes happens that

“When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, tak- eth an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs

1. The owner of goods who intrusts them on board a vessel for delivery abroad, by charter-party or otherwise. 2. Also, a Dutch word, signifying the master of a ship. It is

The office of sheriff; the period of that office.

Lat. In Scotch practice. So it is subscribed. Formal words at the end of depositions, immediately preceding the signature. 1 How. State Tr. 1379. Sic utere tno nt alienum non laedas. Use