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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

See CONDITION.

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

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,

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

are assessed to satisfy a bare legal right. Wharton.

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