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SUPPLEMENTAL AFFIDAVIT

an affidavit that is presented in addition to the original and supports your contention further.

SETOFF A

a counterclaim by the defendant against the plaintiff. The setoff may not have anything to do with a plaintiff’s original claim.

SICK BENEFITS

money that is paid to an employee while he is away from work due to an illness.

SEALING OF RECORDS

a term where criminal records are sealed in cases that involve young offenders and can only be examined with a court order.

SOURCE OF INCOME

a term related to the origin of your income. The IRS can ask how a person came into some money he is not expected to have.

SUFFOCATE

a term that means to cut off a person’s ability to breathe or to use an asphyxiating gas.

SUSPENDED SENTENCE

1. To withhold executing a jail sentence on certain conditions. 2. A sentence that si given by the court that is not actually served.

SUGGESTION OF ERROR

a request for another hearing that is based on an assumption that an error was made at the earlier hearing.

SUBMISSION BOND

the name that is given to a bond that the parties in dispute submit to an impartial arbitrator.

SMALL BUSINESS ACT

the name of a federal law that has been enacted to aid small business enterprises.

SETTLED INSANITY

term that is legal term and not medical term for a recurrent or a habitual mental illness.

SITUATION OF DANGER

a term that describes the position from which a person can’t escape. See last clear chance.

SUPREMACY CLAUSE

a statement in Article VI of the US Constitution that states laws are the laws of the land and all other laws are subservient to and bound by the laws laid down

SCALE-DOWN AGREEMENT

an agreement where the creditors agree to accept less than the full amount that is due to them as the full payment for their individual claims.

SHORT RATE

a term that describes the agreement between the insurer an the insured to cancel a policy and make a new policy.

SKIPPING BAIL

the term that means to not show in court when you are supposed. Bail money is forfeited.

SUB ROSA

This a Latin phrase that means secretly, privately or clandestinely.

SOVEREIGN POWER

the power and the authority to make and enforce the law of the land. See inherent power.

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