Category: S

To give security; to assure of payment, performance, or indemnity; to guaranty or make certain the payment of a debt or discharge of an obligation. One “se- cures” his creditor by giving

To entice a woman to the commission of fornication or adultery, by per- suasion, solicitation, promises, bribes, or otherwise : to corrupt; to debauch. The word “seduce,” when used with reference to

Taking the best beast, etc., where an heriot is due, on the death of the tenant. 2 Bl. Comm. 422.

A place of education. Any school, academy, college, or university in which young persons are Instructed in the several branches of learning which may qualify them for their future employments. Webster. The

A writ addressed to the steward and marshal of England, inhibiting them to take cognizance of an action in their court that concerns freehold. Reg. Orig. 185. Abolished.

In ecclesiastical law. The third Sunday before Quadragesima Sun- day, being about the seventieth day before Easter.

Lat Severally; separately; Individually ; one by one.

Serjeant at mace. 2 Mod. 58.

To set down a cause for trial or hearing at a given term is to enter its title in the calendar, list, or docket of calises which are to be brought on

A fresh-water trench or little river, encompassed with banks on both sides, to drain off surplus water into the sea. Cowell. Properly, a trench artificially made for the purpose of carrying water

In old English law. A wood. Co. Litt 46.

In English law. To be quit of attachment in a court, in plaints shewed and not avowed. Obsolete.

Land on the margin of the sea, or a lake or river. In common parlance, the word “shore” is understood to mean the line that separates the tide-water from the laud about

Lat In English practice. A writ of association of justices whereby, if all in commission cannot meet at the day assigned, it is allowed that two or more may proceed with the

A school or sect of Roman jurists, under the early empire, founded by Ateius Capito, who was succeeded by M. Sabinus, from whom the name.

In old English law. An umpire, or arbitrator. Ssepe constitutnm est, res inter alios judicatas aliis non prsejndicare. It has often been settled that matters adjudged be tween others ought not to

Lat. In the civil law. An allowance of provisions. A stipend, wages, or compensation for services. An annual allowance or compensation. Calvin.

L. Lat A safe pledge; called, also, “eertus plegius,” a sure pledge. Bract fol. 1606.

Fr. A term used In relation to the right of putting animals on a common. The term “common sans nombrc” does not mean that the beasts are to be in- numerable, but

A saving clause in a statute is an exception of a special thing out of the general things mentioned in the statute ; it is ordinarily a restriction in a repealing act,