Sine
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
Without.
The initial word of several Latin phrases. Sine assensu capital!. Without the assent of the chapter. The name of a writ issued, in English practice, when a dean, bishop, prebendary, abbot, prior, or master of an hospital aliened land held in right of his house, without the ternity; in which case his successor should have this writ. Cowel. With other real actions, this writ was abolished in 1833, by Stat. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. ch.
27, §86.
Sine die
Without day. Without a day fixed to appear again. A phrase in general use, expressing a final adjournment. When used in reference to legal proceedings, it imports a final discharge or dismissal. Formerly, judgment for the defendant in many cases was, in terms, quod eat sine die, — that he go without day.
Sine hoc
Without this. A technical phrase in pleading equivalent to absque hoc, q. v.