Category: S

Lat. In the civil and common law. A thing violently or unlawfully taken from another.

A person sent into an enemy’s camp to inspect their works, ascertain their strength and their intentions, watch their movements, and secretly communicate intel- ligence to the proper officer. By the laws

An Impression made by public authority, in pursuance of law, upon paper or parchment, upon which certain legal proceedings, conveyances, or contracts are re- quired to be written, and for which a

In a general sense, an allegation; a declaration of matters of fact. The term has come to be used of a variety of formal narratives of facts, required by law in various

Relating to a statute; created or defined by a statute; required by a statute; conforming to a statute.

Barrenness; incapacity to produce a child.

Lat. In old English law. Stock ; a stock; a source of descent or title. Communis stipes, the common stock. Fleta, lib. 6, c. 2.

Iu old English law. A valley. Co. Litt. 40.

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Lat. In old English law. Vicious pleading, for which a flue was imposed by King John, supposed to be the origin of the fines for beau-pleader. Crabb, Eng. Law, 135. STUMPAGE 1115

Lat In the civil law. To sell at public auction, which was done sub hasta, under a spear; to put or sell under the spear. Calvin.

Lat, In the civil law. Obtaining gifts of escheat, etc., from the king by concealing the truth. Bell; Calvin.

In English practice. Service of process made uuder authorization of the court upon some other person, when the person who should be served cannot be found or cannot be reached. In American

To sufTer an act to be done, by a person who can prevent it, is to permit or consent to it; to approve of it, and not to hinder it. It implies

In old English, law. The witnesses or followers of the plaintiff. 3 Bl. Comm. 295. See SECTA. Old books mention the word in many connections which are now disused,

L. Lat In old English practice. A summoning or summons; a writ by which a party was summoned to appear in court of which there were various kinds. Spelman. Summonitiones aut citationes

Lat. In the civil law. A species of obliteration. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1.

In English law. The name of a writ issuing out of the king’s bench or chancery for taking sureties of the peace. It is commonly directed to the justices of the peace,

A surety is one who at the request of another, and for the purpose or se- curing to him a benefit, becomes responsible for the performance by the latter of some act

L. Fr. In old English law. Neglect; omission; default; cessation.