o solemnize, spoken of a marriage, means no more than to enter into a marriage contract with due publication, before third persons, for the purpose of giving it notoriety and certainty; which

uity. Most attorneys take out a certificate to practice in the courts of chancery, and therefore become solicitors also, and, on the other hand, most, if not all, solicitors take out a

A term of civil-law origin, signifying that the right or interest spoken of is joint or common. A “solidary obligation” corresponds to a “joint and several” obligation iu the common law; that

Lat. In the civil law. A whole; an entire or undivided thing.

A coin equal to 13s. 4d. of the present standard. 4 Steph. Comm. 119/1. Originally the “solidus” was a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire, but in medieval times the term was

In old English law. Two plow-lands, and somewhat less than a half. Co. Litt. 5a. Solo cedit quod solo insedificatur. That which is built upon the soil belongs to the soil. The

Lat. In Roman law. The solum italicum (an extension of the old Ager llomanus) admitted full ownership, and of the application to it of usueapio; whereas the solum provinciale (an extension of

Lat. In civil law. Payment, satisfaction, or release; any species of discharge of au obligation accepted as satisfactory by the creditor. The term refers not so much to the counting out of

Old writs whereby knights of the shire and burgesses might have recovered their wages or allowance if it had been refused. 35 Hen. VIII. c. 11.

In the civil law. Loosed; freed from confinement; set at liberty. Dig. 50, 10, 48. In Scotch practice. Purged. A term used in old depositions.

Fr. In French law. Ability to pay; solvency. Emerig. Traitfi des Assur. c. 8,

Ability to pay; present ability to pay; ability to pay one’s debts out of one’s own present means. Marsh >v. Dunckel, 25 Hun (N. Y.) 100; Osborne v. Smith (C. C.) IS

Lat. Paying. An apt word of reserving a rent in old conveyances. Co. Litt. 47a.

Lat. To be in a state of solvency; i. e., able to pay. Solvendo esse nemo intelligitur nisi qui solidum potest solvere. No one is considered to be solvent unless he can

A solvent person is one who is able to pay all his just debts in full out of bis own present means. See Dig. 50, 10, 114. And see SOLVENCY.

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 He paid; paid. 10 East, 20G.

A celebrated decision of the English king’s bench, in 1771, (20 IIow. St. Tr. 1.) that slavery no longer existed in England in any form, and could not for the future exist

Sleep-walking. Whether this condition is anything more than a co- operation of the voluntary muscles with the thoughts which occupy the mind during sleep is not settled by physiologists. Wharton.

In ecclesiastical law, an oflicer of the ecclesiastical courts whose duty was to serve citations or process.