Coppice-wood. 2 Inst. 642.

An under-agent; a substituted ageut; an agent appointed by one who is himself au ageut 2 Kent, Comm. 633.

An inferior or subordinate oflicer. An oflicer who exercises his authority under the superintendence and control of a superior.

Lat In old English law. A vassal; a dependent; any one under the power of another. Spelman.

To divide a part into smaller parts; to separate into smaller divisions. As, where an estate is to be taken by some of the heirs per stirpes, it is divided and subdivided

In English probate practice, to subduct a caveat is to withdraw it

Lat In the civil law. To sell at public auction, which was done sub hasta, under a spear; to put or sell under the spear. Calvin.

Lat. In the civil law. A sale by public auction, which was done under a spear, tixed up at the place of sale as a public sign of it Calvin.

The system which the feudal tenants introduced of granting smaller estates out of those which they held of their lord, to be held of themselves as inferior lords. As this system was

In logic. That concerning which the affirmation in a proposition is made; the first word in a proposition. An individual matter considered as the object of legislation. The constitutions of several of

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

The thing in controversy, or the matter spoken or written about. Sublata causa tollitur effectus. Co. I.itt. 303. The cause being removed the effect ceases. Sublata veneratione magistratuum, respublica ruit. When respect

A lease by a tenant to another person of a part of tbe premises held by him; an under-lease.

A yielding to authority. A citizen is bound to submit to the laws; a child to his parents. In practice. A submission Is a covenant by which persons who have a lawsuit

To propound; as an advocate submits a proposition for the approval of the court. Applied to a controversy, it means to place it before a tribunal for determination.

When a person who holds a mortgage as security for a loan which he has made, procures a loan to himself from a third person, and pledges his mortgage as security, he

To ham-string by cutting the sinews of the legs and thighs. It was an old custom mcretrices et impudi- cas mutieres subnervare. Wharton.

In the civil law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of law.

In criminal law. To procure another to commit perjury. Steph. Crim. Law, 74.

In criminal law. The offense of procuring another to take such a false oath as would con- stitute perjury in the principal. See Stone v. State, US Ga. 705, 45 S. E.