Category: S

Lat In his own name.

Lat. Surcharging a common; i. e., putting in beasts of a num ber or kind other than the right of common allows.

Lat Suppression or concealment of the truth. “It is a rule of equity, as well as of law, that a suppressio veri is equivalent to a suggestio falsi; and where either the

In English ecclesiastical law. Fees payable on ministerial offices of the church; such as baptisms, funerals, marriages, etc.

An abbreviation of “suspcndatur per collum,” let him he hanged by the neck. Words formerly used in England in signing judgment against a prisoner who was to be executed; being written by

Comprehensive; including in its scope many persons or objects; as a sweeping objection.

Formerly an inn of chancery.

Lat. In Roman law. Marks or signs of abbreviation used in writing. Cod. 1, 17, 11, 13.

This word is often used to deuote a partial resemblance only; but it is also often used to denote sameness in all essential particulars. Thus, a statutory provision in relation to “previous

In old English law. A franchise, liberty, or hundred.

See LETTERS OF SLAINS.

Viudictive or exemplary damages. See Brewer v. Jacobs (C. C.) 22 led. 224; Springer v. Somers Fuel Co., 190 I’a. 150, 40 Atl. 370; Day v. Wood- worth, 13 How. 371, 14

A scheme of government aiming at absolute equality in the distribution of tlie physical means of life and enjoyment It is on the continent employed in a larger seuse; not necessarily implying

Lands and tenements which were not held by knight-service, nor by grand serjeanty, nor by petit, but by simple services; being, as it were, lands en- franchised by the king or his

Lat. In civil law. Payment, satisfaction, or release; any species of discharge of au obligation accepted as satisfactory by the creditor. The term refers not so much to the counting out of

A tax of forty shillings anciently laid upon every knight’s fee. Cowell.

Fr. In French law. Under private signature; under the private signature of the parties. A contract or instrument thus signed is distinguished from an “authentic act,” which is formally concluded before a

See DEMURRER.

The sealer of the royal writs.

Lat. A free gift or present to the crown. Sponte virnm mnlier fugiens et adul- tera facta, dote sua careat, nisi sponsi sponte retracta. Co. Litt 326. Let a SPORTULA 1103