Category: S

Seceders from the Church of England. They, like Quakers, solemnly affirm, instead of taking the usual oath, before they give evidence.

One to whom a sequestration is made. One appointed or chosen to perform a sequestration, or execute a writ of sequestration.

In contracts. The being employed to serve another; duty or labor to be rendered by one person to another. The term is used also for employment in one of the offices, departments,

a legislative body.) as distinguished from a special or extra session.

as pasture for the cattle of all the owners, and in some cases for the cattle of other persons as well; each owner is called a “severalty owner,” and his rights of

A customary gift of corn, which, at every Christmas, the farmers in some parts of England give to their smith for sharpening their plow-irons, harrow- tines, etc. Blount.

The jurisdiction of a sheriff. Called, in modern law, “bailiwick.” The office of a sheriff.

In Mohammedan law. Preemption. or a power of possessing property which has been sold, by paying a sum equal to that paid by the purchaser. Wharton.

Lat. If it happen. Words of condition in old conveyances. 10 Coke, 42a.

Lat So help me God. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 18,

An abbreviation for “session [or statute] laws.”

In English criminal law. Larceny from a church. 4 Steph. Comm. 164. The crime of breaking a church or chapel, and stealing therein. 1 Russ. Crimes, S43. In old English law. The

In Gothic law. The ministerial officer of a court or magistrate, who brought parties into court and executed the orders of his superior. Spelman.

L. Lat. Safeguard. Reg. Orig. 26.

In English law. Rodies having jurisdiction over their respective districts iu regard to sewerage. drainage, scavenging, the supply of water, the prevention of nuisances aud offensive trades, etc.. all of which come

In old English law. A space of time from even-song on Saturday till sun-rising on Monday, in which it was not lawful to take salmon in Scotland and the northern parts of

Defamatory reports or rumors ; aspersion or slanderous talk, uttered recklessly or maliciously. In pleading. “Scandal consists in the allegation of anything which is unbecoming the dignity of the court to hear,

Lat. It is to be known ; be it remarked. In the books of the civil law, this phrase is often found at the beginning of a chapter or paragraph, by way

See POSSESSION.

In old records. Esquire; the same as “armiger.” Spelman.