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SIMPLA

Lat In the civil law. The single value of a thing. Dig. 21, 2, 37, 2.

SIMPLE

Pure; unmixed; not compounded; not aggravated; not evidenced by sealed writing or record. As to simple “Assault,” “Average,” “Battery,” “Blockade,” “Bond.” “Confession,” “Contract,” “Contract Debt,” “Deposit,” “Interest,” “Larceny,” “Obligation,” “Trust,” and “Warrandice,”

SINE

ate church, or any other ecclesiastical benefice, as distinguished from a cure of souls. It may therefore be held with any parochial cure, without coming under the prohibitions against pluralities. Wharton.

SIMPLICITER

Lat. Simply; without ceremony; in a summary manner. Directly; immediately; as distinguished from inferentially or indirectly. By itself; by its own force; per se.

SIMTJII CUM

Lat. Together with. In actions of tort and in prosecutions, where several persons united In committing the act complained of, some of whom are known and others not, it is usual to

SIMULATION

In the civil law. Misrepresentation or concealment of the truth ; as where parties pretend to perform a transaction different from that in which they really are engaged. Mackeld. Rom. Law, I

SINDERESIS

“A natural power of the soul, set in the highest part thereof, moving and stirring it to good, aud adhorring evil. And therefore sinderesis never sinneth nor erreth. And this sinderesis our

SIXHINDI

Sine possessione mncapio procedere non potest. There can be no prescription without possession.

SINECURE

In ecclesiastical law. When a rector of a parish neither resides nor perforins duty at his benefice, but has a vicar under him endowed and charged with the cure thereof, this is

SINGLE

Unitary; detached; individual ; affecting only one person; containing only one part, article, condition, or covenant As to single “Adultery,” “BUI,” “Bond,” “Combat,” “Demise,” “Entry,” “Escheat,” and “Original,” see those titles.

SINGULAR

Each ; as in the expression “all and singular.” Also, individual.

SIPESSOCUA

In old English law. A franchise, liberty, or hundred.

SIST, v

In Scotch practice. To stay proceedings. Bell.

SIST, n

In Scotch practice. A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings. Bell.

SISTER

A woman who has the same father and mother with another, or has one of them only. The word is the correlative of “brother.”

SIT

To hold a session, as of a court, grand jury, legislative body, etc. To be formally organized and proceeding with the transaction of business. See Allen v. State, 102 Ga. 010, 29

SITIO GANADO MAYOR

Sp. In Spanish and Mexican land law, a tract of land in the form of a square, each side of which measures 5,000 varas; the distance from the center of each sitio

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