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Category: S

SOLICIT

1. To seek or to plead, to entreat and ask. 2. To lure or tempt a person.

SPECIAL PLEADING

the name applied to a pleading beyond the denial of the plaintiff’s charges that can include justification for an action.

SUIT IN EQUITY

a lawsuit that will be determined according to the judgement of the court as to what is fair and equitable.

SCHEME TO DEFRAUD

a planned attempt to deceive and cheat and a conspiracy to carry out a fraud.

SHOCK MENTAL

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

SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWER

an additional answer that is given to alter, add to or to delete answers that have already been given.

SEARCH AND SEIZURE

These are the methods used to detect an punish crime that includes searching and taking property and data that can be used by the prosecution of the criminal.

STANDING

a right of people to challenge the conduct of another person in a court.

SERVICE OF A WIFE

a term that applies to the assistance, aid, comfort, companionship and physical relations that a wife usually affords to her husband.

STRING CITATION

to name the case references that were consulted in the reaching of a conclusion.

SUBVERSIVE

an attempt to overthrow or destroy a government that has been legally established.

SECESSION

a term that means withdrawing from a membership in a group or organisation.

SPECIAL PROCEEDING

the term that is given to any remedy that is not an ordinary action. See proceeding, ordinary.

SELF-PRESERVATION

a term that is used for a person’s basic instinct of survival and protecting their own health, body and life.

SHAM PLEADING

term that is used for the defence that is presented in bad faith or that is obviously false.

SPECIFIC BEQUEST

a legacy of a specified property or chattel to a particular person that is detailed in a will. See legacy, specific.

SUNSHINE LAWS

a term for various state statutes that allow the media and the general public to be present during the deliberations of legislative bodies.

SO HELP ME GOD

phrase found in in the swearing in process that is included in all oaths.

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