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Span. In Spanish law. A slave. Las Partidas, pt 4, tit. 21, 1. 1.

The state of a person who does not speak, or of one who refrains from speaking. In the law of estoppel, “silence” implies knowledge and an opportunity to act upon it. Pence

Sine possessione mncapio procedere non potest. There can be no prescription without possession.

In English practice. Officers of tlie court of chancery, who received and filed all bills, answers, replications, and other papers, signed office copies of pleadings, examined and signed dockets of decrees, etc.,

An arm of a river, flowing between islands and the main-land, and sep- arating the islands from one another. Sloughs have not the breadth of the main river, nor does the main

In Saxon law. Jurisdiction ; a power or privilege to administer justice and execute the laws; also a shire, circuit, or territory. Cowell.

In criminal law. The crime of unnatural sexual connection; so named from its prevalence in Sodom. See Genesis, xix. This term is often defined in statutes and judicial decisions as meaning “the

A term of civil-law origin, signifying that the right or interest spoken of is joint or common. A “solidary obligation” corresponds to a “joint and several” obligation iu the common law; that

Sleep-walking. Whether this condition is anything more than a co- operation of the voluntary muscles with the thoughts which occupy the mind during sleep is not settled by physiologists. Wharton.

To have reference or relation to; to aim at. An action is technically said to sound in damages where it is brought not for the specific recovery of a thing, but for

Lat In the civil law. Impotent persons. Those who, on account of their temperament or some accident they have suffered, are unable to procreate. Inst. 1, 11, 9; Dig. 1, 7, 2,

In criminal law. As secured by constitutional guaranties, a speedy trial means a trial conducted according to fixed rules, regulations, and proceedings of law, free from vexatious, capricious, and oppressive delays manufactured

Lat. Do you undertake? I do undertake. The most common form of verbal stipulation in the Roman law. Inst 3, 16, 1. Spondet peritiam artis. He promises the skill of his art;

In American law. One who settles on another’s land, particularly on public lands, without a title. See O’Donnell v. Mclntyre, 16 Abb. N. C. (N. Y.) 84; Park- ersburg Industrial Co. v.

A weight or measure fixed and prescribed by law, to which all other weights and measures are required to correspond. STANNARIES 1105 STATE

Lat. Forthwith; immediately. In old English law, this term meant either “at once,” or “within a legal time,” i. e., such time as permitted the legal and regular performance of the act

rence In the accounts of monastic establishments. Spelman; Cowell.

If the plaintiff in a plalut in the mayor’s court of London has attached property belonging to the defendant and obtained execution against the garnishee, the defendant, if he wishes to contest

Liquidated damage, (q. v.)

L. Lat. A man of straw, oue of no substance, put forward as bail or surety.