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SUBSTRACTION

In French law. The fraudulent appropriation of any property, but particularly of the goods of a decedent’s estate.

SUITE

Those persons who by his authority follow or attend an ambassador or other public minister.

SUMMUM JUS

Eat Strict right; extreme right The extremity or rigor of the law. Summnm jns, summa injuria; summa lex, summa crux. Extreme law (rigor of law) Is’ the greatest Injury; strict law is

SUPERINTENDENT REGISTRAR

In English law. An ofiicer who superintends the registers of births, deaths, and marriages. There is one in every poor-law union in England and Wales.

SUPPLIES

In English law. The “supplies” in parliamentary proceedings signify the sums of money which are annually voted by the house of commons for the maintenance of tlie crown and the various public

SYLVA CffiDUA

Lat In ecclesiastical law. Wood of any kind which was kept on purpose to be cut, and which, being cut grew again from the stump or root Lynd. I’rov. 100; 4 Reeve,

S ZEMINDAR

In Hindu law. Landkeep- er. An officer who under the Mohammedangovernment was charged with the financial superintendence of the lauds of adistrict, the protection of the cultivators, and the T realization of

SILENTIARIUS

In English law. One of the privy council; also an usher, who sees good rule and silence kept in court. Wharton.

SINECURE

In ecclesiastical law. When a rector of a parish neither resides nor perforins duty at his benefice, but has a vicar under him endowed and charged with the cure thereof, this is

SIX-DAY LICENSE

In English law. A liquor license, containing a condition that the premises in respect of which the license is granted shall be closed during the whole of Sunday, granted under section 49

SLOUGH SILVER

A rent paid to the castle of Wigmore, iu lieu of certain days’ work in harvest, heretofore reserved to the lord from his tenants. Cowell.

SOCA

A seigniory or lordship, enfranchised by the king, with liberty of holdiug a court of his socmen or socaycrs; i. e., his tenants.

SOIL

The surface, or surface-covering of the land, uot Including minerals beneath it or grass or plants growing upon it But in a wider (and more usual) sense, the term is equivalent to

SOLIDUM

Lat. In the civil law. A whole; an entire or undivided thing.

SOMPNOUR

In ecclesiastical law, an oflicer of the ecclesiastical courts whose duty was to serve citations or process.

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