Category: S

A person who owns shares of stock in a corporation or joint- stock company. See Mills v. Stewart, 41 N. Y. 3S0; Boss v. Knapp, etc., Co., 77 111. App. 424; Corwith

A deception either by words or actions, iu times of war, in order to obtain au advantage over an enemy.

In English practice. The flrst step in the proceedings in bankruptcy, which consists in making affidavit of the debt and giving a bond to follow up the proceediugs with effect. 2 Steph.

Lat. In its own nature. Suaptc natura sterilis, barren in its own nature and quality; intrinsically barren. 5 Maule & S. 170.

A yielding to authority. A citizen is bound to submit to the laws; a child to his parents. In practice. A submission Is a covenant by which persons who have a lawsuit

The act of writing oue’s name under a written instrument; the affixing one’s signature to any document, whether for the puriiose of authenticating or attesting it, of adopting its terms as one’s

Lat. In the civil law. A coming in place of another, on his decease; a coming into the estate which a deceased person had at the time of his death. This was

Lat. In Roman law. A vote; the right of voting iu the assemblies of the people. Aid or influence used or promised to obtain some honor or office; the purchase of oilice.

In old English law. A plow- land. 1 Inst. 5.

Lat At his own peril or risk.

In old English law. Overplus ; surplus; residue or balance. Bract, fol. 301; Spelman.

Suprema potestas seipsam dissolvere potest. Supreme power can dissolve itself. Bac. Max.

That which remains of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose; the remainder of a thing; the overplus; the residue. See People’s F. Ius. Co. v. Parker, 35 N. J. Law, 577;

To interrupt; to cause to cease for a time; to stay, delay, or hinder; to discontinue temporarily, but with an expectation or purpose of resumption. To forbid a public officer, attorney, or

In old English law. A freeman or freeholder within the forest.

In the civil law. A bilateral or reciprocal contract, in which the parties expressly enter into mutual engagements, each binding himself to the other. Poth. Obi. no. 9.

To affix one’s name to a writing or instrument, for the purpose of authenti- cating it, or to give it effect as one’s act To “sign” is merely to write one’s name

Lat. In pleading. Likewise ; the like. The name of the short formula used either at the end of pleadings or by Itself, expressive of the acceptance of an issue of fact

In Scotch practice. To stay proceedings. Bell.

In torts. Oral defamation; the speaking of false and malicious words concerning another, whereby injury results to his reputation. See Pollard v. Lyon, 91 U. S. 227, 23 L. Ed. 308; Fredrickson