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SALE ON APPROVAL A

a sale that is conditioned or tentative and depends on the intended purchaser’s satisfaction with a thing he is buying.

SERVICE OF EXECUTION

the act of a sheriff or other officer of the court in carrying out a judgement of the court.

STAND WITNESS

a term that is used for the place where the witness giver their testimony.

SUFFOCATE

a term that means to cut off a person’s ability to breathe or to use an asphyxiating gas.

SCURRILOUS

a term for a vulgar, foul, indecent or obscene language.

SIMULATED CONTRACT

the name that is given to a contract that seems to be valid and bona fida but it actually is invalid.

SUPPLEMENTAL PLEADING

a term that is used for the additional pleading that is in support of the original pleading.

SEVERANCE OF PROSECUTION

This term applies to the separating into individual trials in a case where the defendant wants to turn state’s evidence or wants to be separated from the other defendants.

SEPARATE COUNTS

a term for 2 or more charges being contained in one indictment, where each count is a separate indictment the defendant can be tried for.

STEPCHILD

the name that is given to the child of a wife or husband from a previous marriage.

SALE BILL OF

a document that gives evidence that a property has been sold to a purchaser by the seller.

STATUTE DECLARATORY

a law that is passed by the legislature that will end the confusion about legal rulings in a certain matter.

SHOW-UP

the name for a one-on-one meeting between a suspect and a witness in a line up where the witness is shown a group of people and asked to select the suspect.

SERVIENT ESTATE

a term for the restriction that is placed on land where the deed forbids any placing of buildings within a certain distance from another person’s property.

SHOCK MENTAL

a state of sudden agitation that is brought on by an emotional upheaval.

SEALED VERDICT

a verdict that has been placed in an envelope and then sealed for it to be delivered to the court when it is next in session.

SPECIAL COUNSEL

the name that is given to the attorney who is employed to assist a state or a federal attorney general in a prosecution case.

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