In the old books. To stop; to hesitate; to accede with reluctance. “The court stuck a little at this exception.” 2 Show. 491.

(1) An inferior officer who cuts wood within the royal parks of Clarendon. Cowell. (2) An arbitrator. (3) An obstinate contender about anything.

Agreeing, in consideration of receiving a pecuniary or other advantage, to abstain from prosecuting a person for an offense not giving rise to a civil remedy; e. g., perjury. Sweet

A stillborn child is one born dead or in such an early stage of pregnancy as to be incapable of living, though not actually dead at the time of birth. Children born

Lat. In the civil law. The drip of water from the eaves of a house. The servitude stillicidii consists in the right to have the water drip from one’s eaves upon the

In English law. Limit; a limited number. Used as descriptive of a species of common. See COMMON SANS NOMBRE.

A salary; settled pay. Man- gam v. Brooklyn, 98 N. Y. 597, 50 Am. Bep. 705. In English and Scotch law. A provision made for the support of the clergy.

Estates granted in return for services, generally of a military kind. 1 Steph. Comm. 174.

In English law. Paid magistrates; appointed in London and some other cities and bor- oughs, and having in general the powers and jurisdiction of justices of the peace.

Lat. In the civil law. The pay of a soldier ; wages; stipend. Calvin.

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

Relating to stirpes, roots, or stocks. “Stipital distribution” of property is distribution per stirpes; that is, by right of representation.

Liquidated damage, (q. v.)

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.

A material article in an agreement in practice. An engagement or undertaking in writing, to do a certain act; as to try a cause at a certain time. 1 Burrill, Pr. 389.

Lat. A root or stock of descent or title. Taking property by right of repre- sentation is called “succession per stirpes.” in opposition to taking In one’s own right, or as a

discharged. If there is a class of “preferred”‘ stock, the common stock may In this sense be said to be “deferred,” and the term Is sometimes used as equivalent to “common” stock.

A person who owns shares of stock in a corporation or joint- stock company. See Mills v. Stewart, 41 N. Y. 3S0; Boss v. Knapp, etc., Co., 77 111. App. 424; Corwith

A machine consisting of two pieces of timber, arranged to be fastened to- gether, and holding fast the legs of a person placed in it. This was an ancieut method of punishment

The name of an order grantable in English chancery practice, to prevent drawing out a fund in court to the prejudice of an assignee or lienliolder.