Category: S

Lat. In the civil law. A coming in place of another, on his decease; a coming into the estate which a deceased person had at the time of his death. This was

Lat. In Roman law. A vote; the right of voting iu the assemblies of the people. Aid or influence used or promised to obtain some honor or office; the purchase of oilice.

In old English law. A plow- land. 1 Inst. 5.

Lat At his own peril or risk.

In old English law. Overplus ; surplus; residue or balance. Bract, fol. 301; Spelman.

Suprema potestas seipsam dissolvere potest. Supreme power can dissolve itself. Bac. Max.

That which remains of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose; the remainder of a thing; the overplus; the residue. See People’s F. Ius. Co. v. Parker, 35 N. J. Law, 577;

To interrupt; to cause to cease for a time; to stay, delay, or hinder; to discontinue temporarily, but with an expectation or purpose of resumption. To forbid a public officer, attorney, or

In old English law. A freeman or freeholder within the forest.

In the civil law. A bilateral or reciprocal contract, in which the parties expressly enter into mutual engagements, each binding himself to the other. Poth. Obi. no. 9.

To affix one’s name to a writing or instrument, for the purpose of authenti- cating it, or to give it effect as one’s act To “sign” is merely to write one’s name

Lat. In pleading. Likewise ; the like. The name of the short formula used either at the end of pleadings or by Itself, expressive of the acceptance of an issue of fact

In Scotch practice. To stay proceedings. Bell.

In torts. Oral defamation; the speaking of false and malicious words concerning another, whereby injury results to his reputation. See Pollard v. Lyon, 91 U. S. 227, 23 L. Ed. 308; Fredrickson

In old English law. Au annual reut paid to cathedral churches; another name for the peutecostals or customary oblations offered by the dispersed inhabitants within a diocese, when they made their processions

In Spanish law. Partnership. Schm. Civil Law, 153, 154.

In English law. Those who held their lands in socage. 2 Bl. Comm. 100. Sola ac per se senectns donationem testamentum aut transactionem non vl- tiat. Old age does not alone and

Old writs whereby knights of the shire and burgesses might have recovered their wages or allowance if it had been refused. 35 Hen. VIII. c. 11.

Lat. In the civil law. Hurtful; injurious; hindering; excusing or justifying delay. Morbus sonticus is any illness of so serious a nature as to prevent a defendant from appearing in court and

Fr. Under. Bendloe, 33.