Category: S

Lat. In the civil law. A rent paid for the ground, where a person built on the public land. A ground rent Spelman; Calvin.

Ability to pay; present ability to pay; ability to pay one’s debts out of one’s own present means. Marsh >v. Dunckel, 25 Hun (N. Y.) 100; Osborne v. Smith (C. C.) IS

In Scotch law. A person who takes meat and drink from others by force or menaces, without paying for it Bell. SOROR 1098 SOVEREIGN

Relating to or designating a species, kind, or sort; designed for a particular purose; confined to a particular purpose, object, person or class. The opposite of “genera”.

1. Coin of the precious metals, of a certain weight and fineness, and bearing the stamp of the government, denoting its value as currency. Trebilcock v. Wilson, 12 Wall. 005, 20 L.

These are inflammable liquids produced by distillation, and forming an article of commerce. See Rlankenship v. State, 93 Ga. 814, 21 S. E. 130; State v. Munger, 15 Vt. 293; Allred v.

A fountain of water; an issue of water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of its issue. Webster. A natural chasm in which water has collected, aud

A deposit made to answer an event, as on a wager. See Harris v. White, SI N. Y. 539; Porter v. Day, 71 Wis. 296. 37 N. W. 259; Mohr v. Miesen,

the state and others partaking in some degree of that character, from the ninth year of Hen. II. to the first of Geo. IV.

The status of a person is his legal position or condition. Thus, when we say that the status of a woman after a decree nisi for the dissolution of her marriage with

The man who marries a widow, she having a child by her former marriage, is step-father to such child.

In English law. Limit; a limited number. Used as descriptive of a species of common. See COMMON SANS NOMBRE.

The act by which the unpaid vendor of goods stops their progress and resumes possession of them, while they are in course of transit from him to the purchaser, and not yet

See ESTRAY.

The words “with strong hand” imply a degree of criminal force, whereas the words vi et armis (“with force and arms”) are mere formal words in the action of trespass, and the

An under-agent; a substituted ageut; an agent appointed by one who is himself au ageut 2 Kent, Comm. 633.

In the civil law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of law.

Essence; the material or essential part of a thing, as distinguished from “form.” See State v. Iiurgdoerfer, 107 Mo. 1, 17 S. W. 040, 14 L, It. A. 846: Hugo v. Miller,

In the common-law definition of manslaughter, this phrase means an access of rage or anger, suddenly arising from a contemporary provocation. It means that the provocation must arise at the time of

Lat. Of its own kind or class; i. e., the only one ot its own kind; peculiar.