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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
A statute requiring fences to be erected and maintained on the sides of a railroad, means on the vacant spaces between the road-bed and the outer lines of the company's land; not necessarily on the dividing line itself. Marshall v. St. Louis, &c.
R. R. Co., 51 Mo. 138.
SIDESMEN; SYNODSMEN. Persons whom, in the ancient episcopal synods, the bishops were wont to summon out of each parish to give information of the disorders of the clergy and people. In the process of time they became standing of Elcers, under the title of sidesmen, synodsmen, or questmen. All their duties seem now to have devolved by custom upon the churchwardens of a parish.
Uripps Laws of Church ^ Clergy, 180.