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.

An Immediate male descendant; the correlative of “father.” Technically a word of purchase, unless explained. Its meaning may be extended by construction to include more remote descendants, such as a grandchild, and

His. Her. See Civ. Code La. art. 3522.

The husband of one’s daughter.

A tax of forty shillings anciently laid upon every knight’s fee. Cowell.

Lat. In the civil law. Hurtful; injurious; hindering; excusing or justifying delay. Morbus sonticus is any illness of so serious a nature as to prevent a defendant from appearing in court and

If there is no time specified for the performance of an act, or if it is specified that it is to be performed soon, tlie law implies that it is to be