Category: S

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.

This is said to be an ancient word, which signified “justice.” Co. Litt. 61a.

Incapacity to contract arising from the impairment of the intellectual faculties by old age.

A grave or tomb. The place of interment of a dead human body. The violation of sepulchres is a misdemeanor at common law.

A species of tenure by knight service, which was due to the king only, and was distinguished into grand and petit serjeanty. The tenant holding by grand serjeanty was bound, instead of

Serving; subject to a service or servitude. A servient estate is one which is burdened with a servitude.

In pleading. To recite or narrate facts or circumstances; to allege or aver; to describe or to incorporate; as, to set out a deed or contract. First Nat. Bank v. Eugelbercht, 5S

In Saxon law. The middle thanes, valued at 000s.

A wether more than a year old. Rex v. Birket 4 Car. & P. 216.

Formerly, a jocose term for a bank-note greatly depreciated in value; also for paper money of a denomina SHIP 1084

A term applied colloquially, but without much precision, to a lease for a short term, (as a month or a year,) as distinguished from one running for a long period.

Lat. In old practice. If before. Formal words in the old writs for summoning juries. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 65,

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.