Category: S

L. Lat In old maritime law. Ballast

A tale-teller; a secret accuser.

St 617; Benedict v. U. S.. 176 U. S. 357, 20 Sup. Ct. 458, 44 L. Ed. 503; People v. Myers (Sup.) 11 N. Y. Supp. 217.

A specimen; a small quantity of any commodity, presented for inspection or examination as evidence of the quality of the whole; as a sample of cloth or of wheat

L Lat. In old records. Weeding corn. A tenant’s service of weeding for the lord. Cowell.

To partake the nature of; to bear affinity to.

A small duty or compensation. Cowell.

In English law. The name of a writ formerly used to recover the amount of a judgment from an executor. Scire leges non hoc est verba earum tenere, sed vim ac potestatem.

A writer; scribe; conveyancer. One whose occupation is to draw contracts, write deeds and mortgages, and prepare other species of written instruments. Also an agent to whom property is intrusted by others

An impression upon wax, wafer, or some other tenacious substance capable of being impressed. Allen v. Sullivan R. Co., 32 N. H. 449; Solon v. Williamsburgh Sav. Rank, 114 N. Y. 132,

In criminal law. Those persons who assist, direct, and support others eugaged in fighting a duel.

Protection; assurance; Indemnification. The term is usually applied to an obligation, pledge, mortgage, deposit, lien, etc., given by a debtor in order to make sure the payment or performance of his debt,

The circuit of a bishop’s jurisdiction ; or his office or dignity, as being bishop of a given diocese.

Lat. In Roman law. Judges who were selected very much like our juries. They were returned by the prsetor, drawn by lot, subject to be challenged, and sworn. 3 Bl. Comm. 3G6.

One born of parents before marriage, the parents afterwards intermarrying. By the civil and Scotch law he would be then legitimated.

Persons who are related to each other by descending from the same great-grandfather or great- grandmother. The children of one’s first cousins are his second cousins. These are sometimes called “‘first cousins

In criminal law and torts. A beating of a person, not accompanied by circumstances of aggravation, or not resulting in grievous bodily injury.

See SECURED.

At common law, a bond without penalty; a bond for the payment of a definite sum of money to a named obligee on demand or on a day certain. Burnside v. Wand,

One whose claim or demand accrued or came into existence after a given fact or transaction, such as the recording of a deed or mortgage or the execution of a voluntary conveyance.