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SURREBUTTER

In pleading. The plaintiff’s answer of fact to the defendant’s rebutter. Steph. PI. 59.

SUTHDURE

The south door of a church, where canonical purgation was performed, and plaints, etc., were heard and determined. Wharton.

SWINDLING

Cheating and defrauding grossly with deliberate artifice. Wyatt v. Ayres, 2 Port. (Ala.) 157; Forrest v. Hanson, 9 Fed. Cas. 456; Thorpe v. State, 40 Tex. Cr. R. 346, 50 S. W.

SYNDICOS

One chosen by a college, municipality, etc., to defend its cause. Calvin.

SIDE

The same court is sometimes said to have different sides; that Is, different provinces or fields of jurisdiction. Thus, an admiralty court may have an “instance side,” distinct from its powers as

SIGNET

A seal commonly used for the sign manual of the sovereign. Wharton. The signet is also used for the purpose of civil justice in Scotland. Bell.

SINE

ate church, or any other ecclesiastical benefice, as distinguished from a cure of souls. It may therefore be held with any parochial cure, without coming under the prohibitions against pluralities. Wharton.

SLAY

This word, in an indictment, adds nothing to the force and effect of the word “kill,” when used with reference to the taking of human life. It is particularly applicable to the

SNOTTERING SILVER

A small duty which was paid by servile tenants in Wy- legh to the abbot of Colchester. Cowell.

SOCIUS

Lat In the civil law. A partner.

SOLATIUM

Compensation. Damages allowed for injury to the feelings.

SOLVENDO

Lat. Paying. An apt word of reserving a rent in old conveyances. Co. Litt. 47a.

SOROR

Lat. In the civil law. Sister; a sister. Inst. 3, 6, 1.

SOVEREIGNTY

The possession of sovereign power; supreme political authority; paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and Its administration ; the self-sufficient source of political power, from which all specific political

SPECIES

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

STATE OF FACTS

Formerly, when a master in chancery was directed by the court of chancery to make an inquiry or investigation into any matter arising out of a suit, and which could not conveniently

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