Category: S

Single; individual; separate; the opposite of joint; as a sole tenant. Comprising only one person; the opposite of aggregate; as a sole corporation. Unmarried ; as a feme sole. See the nouns.

Lat. To pay; to comply with one’s engagement; to do what one has undertaken to do; to release one’s self from obligation, as by payment of a debt. Calvin.

Lat. In the civil law. A drawing of lots. Sortitio judicum was the process of selecting a number of judges, for a criminal trial, by drawing lots.

In Scotch law. Terms used to express the form by which the number of cattle brought upon a common by those having a servitude of pasturage may be justly proportioned to the

A sample; a part of something intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole. People v. Freeman, 1 Idaho, 322.

Lat. A spoiler or destroyer. It is a maxim of law, bearing chiefly on evidence, but also upon the value generally of the thing destroyed, that everything most to his disadvantage is

Lat. In the civil law. A bastard; the offspring of promiscuous cohabitation.

In Saxon law. The prafcctus stabuli, now master of the horse. Sometimes one who has a stall in a fair or market.

Settled; closed. An account stated means an account settled, and at an end. Pull. Acc’ts, 33. “In order to constitute an account stated, there must be a state- meut of some certain

of statutes which have been revised, collected, arranged in order, and re-enacted as a whole; this is the legal title of the collections of compiled laws of several of the states and

A French measure of solidity, used in measuring wood. It Is a cubic meter.

Lat. In the civil law. The pay of a soldier ; wages; stipend. Calvin.

In maritime law. The storing, packing, or arranging of the cargo iu a ship, in such a mauner as to protect the goods from friction, bruising, or damage from leakage. Money paid

Turbulent conduct in a court of justice. Jacob.

To make one out mentally incapacitated for the performance of an act

In English probate practice, to subduct a caveat is to withdraw it

The process by which the attendance of a witness is required is called a “subpoena.” It is a writ or order directed to a person, and requiring his altendance at a particular

One appointed in the place or stead of another, to transact business for him ; a proxy. A person hired by one who has been drafted into the military service of the

In Spanish law. A small lot of ground. Particularly, such a lot within the limits of a city or town used for cultivation or planting as a garden, vineyard or orchard. Building

Is a clause in an English policy of marine Insurance, generally in the following form: “In case of any loss or misfortune, it shall be lawful for the assured, their factors, servants