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SCHOOL

N 58, 29 C. C. A. 14; Burden Burden (C. C.) 124 Fed. 255.

SCIENTER

Lat, Knowingly. The term is used in pleading to signify an allegation (or that part of the declaration or in- dictment which contains it) setting out the defendant’s previous knowledge of the

SCRAWL

A word used in some of the United States for scrowl or scroll. “The word ‘seal,’ written in a scrawl attached to the name of an obligor, makes the instrument a specialty.”

SECRETARY

ordinary attacks of wind and weather, and is competently equipped and manned for the voyage, with a sufficient crew, and with sufficient means to sustain them, and with a captain of general

SECULAR

Not spiritual; not ecclesiastical ; relating to affairs of the present world.

SEDGE FLAT,

like “sea-shore,” imports a tract of land below high-water mark. Church v. Meeker, 34 Conn. 421.

SEISINA HABENDA

A writ for delivery of seisin to the lord, of lands and tenements, after the sovereign, in right of his prerogative, had had the year, day, and waste on a felony committed,

SEMI-PLENA PROBATIO

Lat. In the civil law. Half-full proof; half-proof. 3 BL. Comm. 370. See HALF-PROOF.

SENESCALLUS

In old English law. A seneschal; a steward; the steward of a manor. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 72

SEPES

Lat. In old English law. A hedge or iuclosure. The inclosure of a trench or canal. Dig. 43, 21, 4.

SEQUESTRO HABENDO

In English ecclesiastical law. A judicial writ for the discharging a sequestration of the profits of a church benefice, granted by the bishop at the sovereign’s command, thereby to compel the parson

SET

This word appears to be nearly synonymous with “lease.” A lease of mines is frequently termed a “mining set” Brown.

SEVERANCE

In pleading. Separation ; division. The separation by defendants in their pleas; the adoption, by several defendants, of separate pleas, instead of joining in the same plea. Steph. PI. 257. In estates.

SHASTER

In Hindu law. The iustrument of government or instruction; any book of instructions, particularly containing Divine ordinances. Wharton.

SHERRERIE

A word used by the authorities of the Roman Church, to specify contemptuously the technical parts of the law, as administered by non-clerical lawyers. Wharton.

SHOP

A building in which goods and merchandise are sold at retail, or where mechanics work, and sometimes keep their products for sale. See State v. Morgan, 98 N. C. 041, 3 S.

SI FECERIT TE SECURUM

Lat. If [he] make you secure. In practice. The initial and emphatic words of that description of original writ which directs the sheriff to cause the defendant to appear in court, without

S V

An abbreviation for “sub voce,” under the word; used in references to dic- tionaries, and other works arranged alphabetically.

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