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SUBORNER

One who suborns or procures another to commit any crime, particularly to commit perjury.

SUBPOENA

The process by which the attendance of a witness is required is called a “subpoena.” It is a writ or order directed to a person, and requiring his altendance at a particular

SUBREPTIO

Lat, In the civil law. Obtaining gifts of escheat, etc., from the king by concealing the truth. Bell; Calvin.

SUBREPTION

In French law. The fraud committed to obtain a pardon, title, or grant, by alleging facts contrary to truth.

SUBROGATION

The substitution of one thing for another, or of one person into the place of another with respect to rights, claims, or securities. Subrogation denotes the putting a third person who has

SUBROGEE

A person who is subrogated; one who succeeds to the rights of another by subrogation.

SUBSCRIBE

In the law of contracts. To write under; to write the name under; to write the name at the bottom or end of a writing. Wild Cat Branch v. Ball, 45 Ind.

SUBSCRIBING WITNESS

He who witnesses or attests the signature of a party to an instrument, and in testimony thereof subscribes his own name to the document. A subscribing witness is one who sees a

SUBSCRIPTIO

Lat. In the civil law. A writing under, or under-writing; a writing of the name under or at the bottom of an instrument by way of attestation or ratification; subscription. That kind

SUBSCBIPTION

The act of writing oue’s name under a written instrument; the affixing one’s signature to any document, whether for the puriiose of authenticating or attesting it, of adopting its terms as one’s

SUBSELLIA

Lat. In Roman law. Lower seats or benches, occupied by the indices and by inferior magistrates when they sat in judgment, as distinguished from the tribunal of the praetor. Calvin. Subsequens matrimonium

SUBSIDY

In English law. An aid, tax, or tribute granted by parliament to the king for the urgent occasions of the kingdom, to be levied on every subject of ability, according to the

SUBSTANCE

Essence; the material or essential part of a thing, as distinguished from “form.” See State v. Iiurgdoerfer, 107 Mo. 1, 17 S. W. 040, 14 L, It. A. 846: Hugo v. Miller,

SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES

A sum assessed by way of damages, which is worth having; opposed to nominal damages, which SUBSTANTIVE LAW 1118

SUBVASS0RE3

are assessed to satisfy a bare legal right. Wharton.

SUBSTANTIVE LAW

That part of the law which the courts are established to administer, as opposed to the rules according to which the substantive law Itself is administered. That part of the law which

SUBSTITUTE

One appointed in the place or stead of another, to transact business for him ; a proxy. A person hired by one who has been drafted into the military service of the

SUBSTITUTED SERVICE

In English practice. Service of process made uuder authorization of the court upon some other person, when the person who should be served cannot be found or cannot be reached. In American

SUBSTITUTION

In the civil law. The putting one person in place of another; particularly, the act of a testator in naming a second devisee or legatee who is to take the bequest either

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