Stand

This verb, and standing, as participle and noun, are used in somewhat technical senses. A transaction or deed which has been objected to or unsuccessfully impeached is said to stand; so a statute may be said to be still standing, — meaning it is in force, has not been repealed. Pleadings sustained against a demurrer are said to stand. And a person who has not a capacity or right to sue, is often said to have a standing, or to have no standing, in court. Standing by. Is used in law as implying knowledge, under such circumstances as rendered it the duty of the possessor to communicate it; and it is such knowledge, and not the mere fact of " standing by," that lays the foundation of responsibility.

State V. Ho Uoway, 8 Black/. 45.

The phrase does not import an actual presence, "but implies knowledge under such circumstances as to render it the duty of the possessor to communicate it." Gatling V. Rodman, 6 Ind. 289. manent guidance and order of their proceedings are called standing orders, and are contradistinguished from the sessional orders, by the fact that the former, unless rescinded by a special rote of the house, continue in force, not only from one session to another, but from one parliament to another; while the latter are intended to last only during the session in which they are made. In the house of lords, every new standing order is added to the roll of standing orders, carefully preserved and published from time to time. In the commons, there is no authorized collection of standing orders, except in relation to private bills. May Pari.