Category: S

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

The surface, or surface-covering of the land, uot Including minerals beneath it or grass or plants growing upon it But in a wider (and more usual) sense, the term is equivalent to

Lat. In the civil law. A whole; an entire or undivided thing.

In ecclesiastical law, an oflicer of the ecclesiastical courts whose duty was to serve citations or process.

Whole; in good condition; marketable. So used in warranties of chat- tels. See Brown v. Bigelow, 10 Allen (Mass.) 242; Hawkins v. Pemberton, 35 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 3S3; Woodbury v. Bobbins,

Lat. Here and there; scattered ; at intervals. For instance, trespass to realty by cutting timber sparsim (here and there) through a tract

The formation of words by letters; orthography. Incorrect spelling does not vitiate a written instrument If the intention clearly appears.

Lat. In the civil law. Espousal; betrothal; a reciprocal promise of future marriage.

A contraction of “esquire.”

A district whicb includes all parts of Devon and Cornwall where some tin work is situate and in actual operation. The tin miners of the stannaries have certain peculiar customs and privileges.

Exhibiting, or listing in their order, the items which make up an account.

In practice. A stopping; the act of arresting a judicial proceeding, by the order of a court. See In re Schwarz (D. C.) 14 Fed. 7SS.

A person employed in loading aud unloading vessels. The Senator (D. C.) 21 Fed. 191; Rankin v. Merchants’ & M. Transp. Co., 73 Ga. 232, 54 Am. Rep. 874; The Elton, 83

or, with a view to their being released or discharged by an acoeptilatio, that mode of discharge being applicable only to the verbal contract Brown.

A shore or bank of the sea or a river. Doane v. Willcutt, 5 Gray (Mass.) 335, 00 Am. Dec. 309; Hell v. Hayes, U0 App. Div. 382. 09 X. Y. Supp.

Lat In strict law. 1 Kent, Comm. 65.

A royal lish which, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coast, is the property of the sovereign. 2 Steph. Comm. 19n, 540.

In logic. That concerning which the affirmation in a proposition is made; the first word in a proposition. An individual matter considered as the object of legislation. The constitutions of several of

A person who is subrogated; one who succeeds to the rights of another by subrogation.

An under-tenant; one who leases all or a part of the rented premises from the original lessee for a term less than that held by the latter. Forrest v. Duruell, 86 Tex.