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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.

Lat. If he knows anything; if he is not altogether devoid of reason. Si assuetis mederi possis, nova non sunt tentanda. If you can be relieved by accustomed remedies, new ones should

Disease; malady; any morbid condition of the body (including insanity) which, for the time being, hinders or prevents the organs from normally discharging their several functions. L. R. 8 Q. B. 295.

An abbreviation in the civil law for “sine fraude sua,” (without fraud on his part.) Calvin.

suit of the suit. The successful party received back his stake; the losing party forfeited his, aud it was paid into the public treasury, to be expended for sacred objects, (in sacris

An elaborate form of non-communistic socialism. It is a scheme which does not contemplate an equal, but an unequal, division of the produce. It does not propose that all should be occupied

A gold coin stamped by Henry V. in France, after his conquests there, whereon the arms of England and France were stamped quarterly. Cowell.

A kind of punishment among the Greeks; inflicted by binding the malefactor fast to a piece of wood. Enc. Lond. SANITARY AUTHORITIES 1056 SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE

in technical use, generally means to comply actually and fully with a demand; to extinguish, by payment or performance. Satius est petere fontes quam sectari rivulos. Loli’t, COO. It is better to

In old records, the cucking-stool, (

Lat. In English law. The name given to a clause inserted in the record by which it is made “known that the justice here in court, in this same term, delivered a