Category: S

Serving; subject to a service or servitude. A servient estate is one which is burdened with a servitude.

In pleading. To recite or narrate facts or circumstances; to allege or aver; to describe or to incorporate; as, to set out a deed or contract. First Nat. Bank v. Eugelbercht, 5S

In Saxon law. The middle thanes, valued at 000s.

A wether more than a year old. Rex v. Birket 4 Car. & P. 216.

Formerly, a jocose term for a bank-note greatly depreciated in value; also for paper money of a denomina SHIP 1084

A term applied colloquially, but without much precision, to a lease for a short term, (as a month or a year,) as distinguished from one running for a long period.

Lat. In old practice. If before. Formal words in the old writs for summoning juries. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 65,

In old English law. A liberty of holding pleas; the jurisdiction of a manor court; the privilege claimed by a lord of trying actions of trespass between his tenants, in his manor

L. Fr. Sages of the law; persons learned in the law. A term applied to the chancellor and justices of the king’s bench.

Sturm v. Boker, 150 U. S. 312, 14 Sup. Ct. DO, 37 L. Ed. 1003: Haskins v. I)ern, 19 Utah, 89, 56 Pac. 953; Hickman v. Skimp, 109 Pa. 16.

Lat In old English law. Of sound mind. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 7,

In old English law. A piece of woodland, turned into arable. Cowell.

One of the old privileged places, or sanctuaries. 4 Steph. Comm. 227n.

A sheet of paper or parchment annexed to a statute, deed, answer in equity, deposition, or other instrument, exhibiting in detail the matters mentioned or referred to in the principal document. A

In old English law. A tax or prestation paid to the sheriff for holding the assizes or county courts. Cowell.

A mark intended to supply the place of a seal, made with a pen or other instrument of writing. A paper or parchment containing some writing, and rolled up so as to

simply as “the seal of the United States,” or “the seal of the state.”

Concealed; hidden ; not made public: particularly, in law, kept from the knowledge or notice of persons liable to lie affected by the act, transaction, deed, or other thing spoken of. As

Lat. Otherwise; to the contrary. This word is used in the books to indicate the converse of a foregoing proposition, or the rule applicable to a different state of facts, or an

This word, when written by the drawee on a bill of exchange, amounts to an acceptance by the law merchant. Spear v. Pratt 2 Hill (N. Y.) 5S2, 38 Am. Dec. 600;