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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

In practice. Persons who undertake jointly and severally in behalf of a defendant arrested on mesne process in a civil action that, if he be condemned in the action, he shall pay

Where a plaintiff has several distinct causes of action, he is allowed to pursue them cumulatively in the same action, subject to certain rules which the law pre- scribos. Wharton.

Irresponsible persons, or men of no property, who make a practice of going bail for any one who will pay them a fee therefor.

As opposed to the common counts, in pleading, a special count is a statement of the actual facts of the particular case, or a count in which the plaintiff’s claim is set

A deputy sheriff, appointed at the request of a party to a suit, for the special purpose of serving or executing some writ or process in such suit.

In English law. The ecclesiastical courts, or courts Christian. See 3 Bl. Comm. 01