Category: S

Lat. To apf.ear before a tribunal, either as ulaintiff or defendant. BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

A statesman; a politician; one skilled iu government.

Lat. In the civil law. A general name for any kind of fraud not falling under any specific class. But the term is chiefly applied to fraud practiced in the sale or

Agreeing, in consideration of receiving a pecuniary or other advantage, to abstain from prosecuting a person for an offense not giving rise to a civil remedy; e. g., perjury. Sweet

A machine consisting of two pieces of timber, arranged to be fastened to- gether, and holding fast the legs of a person placed in it. This was an ancieut method of punishment

A military government ; government by military chiefs of an army.

The selecting or nominating a jury of twelve men out of the whole number returned as jurors on the panel. It is especially used of the selection of a special jury, where

Lat. Under; upon.

To propound; as an advocate submits a proposition for the approval of the court. Applied to a controversy, it means to place it before a tribunal for determination.

Lat. In Roman law. Lower seats or benches, occupied by the indices and by inferior magistrates when they sat in judgment, as distinguished from the tribunal of the praetor. Calvin. Subsequens matrimonium

In the civil law and in Louisiana. I. The fact of the transmission of the rights, estate, obligations, and charges of a deceased person to his heir or heirs. 2. The right

Lat. Suggestion or representation of that which is false; false representation. To recite in a deed that a will was duly executed, when it was not, is suggestio falsi; and to conceal

In English law. A summary or abstract; a compendium ; a collection. Several of the old law treatises are called “sums.” Lord Hale applies the term to summaries of statute law. Burrill.

Lat. In Roman law. Household furniture. Dig. 33, 10.

To annul; to stay; to suspend. Thus, it is said that the proceedings of outlawry may be superseded by the entry of appearance before the return of the exigent, or that the

A court of high powers and extensive jurisdiction, existing in most of the states. In some it is the official style of the chief appellate court or court of last resort. In

In pleading. Allegations of matter wholly foreign and impertinent to the cause. All matter beyond the circumstances necessary to constitute the action. See State v. Whitehouse, 95 Me. 179, 49 Atl. 869;

In Scotch law. He in whose favor a suspension is made.

In forest law. A court holden before the verderors, as judges, by the steward of the sweinmote, thrice in every year, the siceins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury. Its

To cut short, or pronounce things so as not to be understood. Cowell.