Sole

Alone; single; separate: individual; opposed to joint and married: as, a sole — administrator, executor, corporation, tenant, use, a feme-sole, qq. v. In a will, " sole " has no fixed technical meaning which requires that a person who contests that meaning must show, by implication, that it is not used in a strict technical sense. In a marriage settlement, it may have a particular and exclusive nxeaning.' In a will, was held to mean " absolute," rather than "separate," — the phrase being "sole and separate use." ' See Separate, 2.

SOLEMN".

Made in due form; conforming to the requirements of law; formal: as, a solemn — admission, instrument, qq. v. See also Oath, Corporal; Seal, 1.

Solemnize.

To be present at a marriage ceremony, that it may have due publication 1 Bishop, Cr. L. § 1029. » Ausman v. Veal, 10 Ind. 356 (1868). " 4 Bl. Com. 215. « [Henry v. BaU, 1 Wheat. 5 (1816), Marshall, C. J. » See Malloy v. Bennett, 15 F. R. 373 (1883); 22 Conn. 398; 132 Mass. 394; 15 N. T. 415; 10 E. L. & E. 437; 2 Greenl. Ev. § 267. « See 74 N. C. 593; 3 Wend. 112; 1 Smith, 54; 5 Wall. 720. before third persons, for -the sake of notoriety and the certainty of its being made.i SOIiICIT.2 To importune, entreat, implore, ask, attempt, try to obtain. So held under an indictment for soliciting, by newspaper publication, persons to commit murder.^ A solicitation to commit a crime is a misdemeanor.* See Chastity. Compare Attempt. Solicitor. A practitioner in courts of equity. 5 Solicitor-general. A law-officer next in rank to the attorney-general. In some States, the chief law-officer of the government; corx'esponding to the attorneygeneral in other States. See further Attorney. SOIiIDUM. See Consolidate; In Solido.