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STANNARIES

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.

STAY

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.

STEVEDORE

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

STOCK

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.

STRANDING

Iu maritime law. The drifting, driving, or running aground of a ship on a shore or strand. Accidental stranding takes place where the ship is driven on shore by the winds and

STRICTUM JUS

Lat Strict right or law; the rigor of the law as distinguished from equity.

STYLE

As a verb, to call, name, or entitle one; as a noun, the title or appellation of a person.

SUBJECTION

The obligation of one or more persons to act at the discretion or ac- cording to the judgment and will of others.

SUBSCRIBE

In the law of contracts. To write under; to write the name under; to write the name at the bottom or end of a writing. Wild Cat Branch v. Ball, 45 Ind.

SUBTRACTION

The offense of withholding or withdrawing from another man what by law he is entitled to. There are various descriptions of this offense, of which the principal are as follows: (1) Subtraction

SUFFICIENT

As to sufficient “Consideration” and “Evidence,” see those titles.

SUITORS’ DEPOSIT ACCOUNT

Formerly suitors in the English court of chancery derived no income from their cash paid iuto court, unless it was invested at their request and risk. Now, however, it is provided by

SUMPTUARY LAWS

Laws made for the purpose of restraining luxury or extrav- agance, particularly against inordinate expenditures in the matter of apparel, food, furniture, etc.

SUPERIORITY

In Scotch law. The dominium directum of lands, without the profit. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, p. 97.

SUPPORT, v

To support a rule or order is to argue in answer to the arguments of the party who has shown cause agaiust a rule or order nisi.

SURMISE

Formerly where a defendant pleaded a local custom, for instance, a cus- tom of the city of London, it was necessary for him to “surmise,” that is, to suggest that such custom

SURVEYOR

One who makes surveys of land ; one who has the overseeing or care of another person’s land or works.

SWEAR

1. To put on oath ; to administer an oath to a person. 2. To take an oath; to become bound by an oath duly administered. 3. To use profane language. Swearing,

SYMBOLIC DELIVERY

The constructive delivery of the subject-matter of a sale, where it is cumbersome or inaccessible, by the actual delivery of some article which is conventionally accepted as the symbol or representative of

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