Category: S

Lat In the civil and old English law. Blood; consanguinity. The right or power which the chief lord of the fee had to judge and determine cases where blood was shed. Mon.

The act of satisfying a party by paying what is due to him. (as on a mortgage, lieu, or contract,) or what is awarded to him, by tlie judgment of a court

In early American law. To adjust, graduate, or value according to a scale. Walden v. Payne, 2 Wash. (Va.) 5, 6.

An abbreviation for “scire facias, (g. v.)

To pay scot, tax, or customary dues. Cowell.

A French coin of gold, coined A. D. 1427, of the value of 3s. 4d.

In English law. An officer of the customs, whose duty It is to examine and search all ships outward bound, to ascertain whether they have any prohibited or uncustomed goods on board.

In American land law. A division or parcel of land, on the government survey, comprising one square mile or 640 acres. Each “township” (six miles square) is divided by straight lines into

Lat. The court sitting; during the sitting of the court.

The completion of the feudal investiture, by which the tenant was admitted into the feud, and performed the rights of homage and fealty. Stearns, Beal Act. 2. Possession with an intent on

Fr. It seems; it would appear. This expression is often used in the reports to preface a statement by the court upon a point of law which is not directly decided, when

Lat. In the civil law. Decisions of the senate. Private acts concerning particular persons merely.

Lat. In old conveyancing. Severally. A word which made a several covenant 5 Coke, 23a.

In English ecclesiastical practice. A process in the ua- ture of a levari facias, commanding the bish- _op to euter into the rectory and parish fl church, and to take and sequester

Lat In old European law. Slaves; persons over whom their masters had absolute dominion. In old English law. Bondmen; servile teuants. Cowell.

Lat. In old English law. A sitting; a session. Sessio parliamenti, the sitting of parliament. Cowell.

Admitting of severance or separation, capable of being divided; capable of being severed from other things to which it was joined, and yet maintaining a complete and independent existence.

In the strict sense of the term, a “shareholder” is a person who has agreed to become a member of a corporation or company, and with respect to whom all the required

In American law. The chief executive and administrative officer of a county, being chosen by popular election SHERIFF 1083

In English law. A county. So called because every county or shire is divided and parted by certain metes and bounds from another. Co. Litt. 50a.