Category: S

To enlarge or increase. In an action of tort, circumstances of aggravation may “swell” the damages.

In the civil law. An advocate or patron; a burgess or recorder; an agent or attorney who acts for a corporation or university; an actor or procurator; an assignee. Wharton. See Minnesota

In English law. The signature or subscription of the king is termed his “sign-manual.” There is this difference between what the sovereign does under the sign manual and what he or she

In English ecclesiastical law. The corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. 2 Bl. Comm. 278. An unlawful con- tract for presenting a clergyman to

In old English law. A franchise, liberty, or hundred.

See LETTERS OF SLAINS.

In old records. A small, light vessel; a smack. Cowell.

Socage tenure, in Engluud, is the holdiug of certain lauds in consideration of certain inferior services of husbandry to be performed by the teuant to the lord ol the tee. “Socage,” in

Fr. Let it be; be it so. A term used in several Law-French phrases employed in English law, particularly as expressive of the will or assent of the sovereign in formal communications

o solemnize, spoken of a marriage, means no more than to enter into a marriage contract with due publication, before third persons, for the purpose of giving it notoriety and certainty; which

A solvent person is one who is able to pay all his just debts in full out of bis own present means. See Dig. 50, 10, 114. And see SOLVENCY.

The killing or murder of a sister; one who murders his sister. This is uot a technical term of the law.

In old Scotch law. Surety. Skene.

Lat. In the civil law. Form; figure; fashion or shape. A form or shape given to materials. A particular thing; as distinguished from “genus.”

Those profits which a bishop receives in his ecclesiastical character, as the dues arising from his ordaining and instituting priests, and such like, in contradistinction to those profits which he acquires in

Lat. In Roman law. A largess, dole, or present; a pecuniary donation; an official perquisite; something over and above the ordinary fee allowed by law. Inst. 4, 6, 24.

Lat. In the civil law. A stable-keeper. Dig. 4, 9, 4, 1.

In English law. A mart or market. A place where the buying and selling of wool, lead, leather, and other articles were put under certain terms. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 393. In

Exhibiting, or listing in their order, the items which make up an account.

rence In the accounts of monastic establishments. Spelman; Cowell.