Scilicet
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
To wit; that is to say; namely. This word was formerly much used in pleadings and in written instruments generally, introducing some explanatory matter relating to that which immediately precedes. As with other words so used, a clause introduced by scilicet cannot enlarge or diminish what it purports to explain; and, if repugnant to the preceding matter, it wiE be. rejected. It is often abbreviated sc. and ss. Videlicet (q. v.) is now more frequently used than scilicet, with like meaning and effect. This is not a direct and separate clause, nor a direct and entire clause, in a conveyance; neither is it a substantive clause of itself, but it is rather to usher in the sentence of another, and to particularize that which was too general before, or distribute that which was too gross, or to explain that which was doubtful and obscure; and it of itself; but it may make a restriction where the precedent words are not so very express but that they may be restrained.
Hobart, 171.