Black's Law Dictionary

A woman who bas the same father and mother with another or has one of them only. The word is the correlative of "brother."

10 Coke, 113. If the suggestion be not true, the letters patent are void.

To hold a session, as of a court, grand jury, legislative body, etc. To be formally organized and proceeding with the transaction of business. See Alien v. State, 102 Ga. 619, 29 S

In Saxon law. The high constable of a hundred.

Sp. In Spanish and Mexican land law, a tract of land in the form of a square, cach side of which measures 5,000 varas; the distance from the center of cach sitlo to each of its sid

In practice. The holding of a court, with full form, and before all the judges; as a sitting in banc. 3 Steph. Comm. 423 The holding of a court of nisi prius by one or more of the

Sittings in bane after term were held by authority of the St. 1 & 2 Viet. c. 32. The courts were at liberty to transact business at their sittings as in term-time, but the custom w

See Chambers.

The sessions of a court, with the full bench present, for the purpose of determining matters of law argued before them.

Lat Site; position; location; the place where a thing is, considered, for example, with reference to jurisdiction over it or the right or power to tax it See Boyd v. Selma, 96 Ala.

Without the judgment of the court Fleta, lib. 2, c 47, J 13.

Without authority of a judge. 2 Kames, Eq. 115.

Without this, that. A technical phrase in old pleading, of the same import with the phrase "absque hoo quod,"

Without stint or limit. A term applied to common. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 19, § 8.

Without issue. Used in genealogical tables, and often abbreviated into p."

The purchaser who has bcen evicted in whole or in part has an action against the vendor. Dig. 21, 2, 1; Broom, Max. 768.

In English practice. Officers of the court of chancery, who received and filed all bllls, answers, replications, and other papers, signed office copies of pleadings, examined and s

In English law. A liquor license, contuining a condition that the premises in respect of which the license is granted shall be closed during the whole of Sunday, granted nnder sect

Servants of the same nature as rod knights, (q. v.) Ann. Inst Eng.

One drawn, indorsed or accepted in blank.

Practical and familiar knowledge of the principles and processes of an art, science or trade, combined with the ability to apply them in practice in a proper and approved manner an

Witnesses who are allowed to give evidence on matters of opinion and abstract fact.

An abbreviation for "session [or statute] laws."

In old records. A long, flat, and narrow piece or strip of ground. Parochi Antiq. 465.

See Letters of Slains.

In torts. Oral defamation; the speaking of false and malicious words concerning another, whereby injury results to his reputation. See Pollard v. Lyon, 91 In S. 227, 23 It. Ed. 308

One who maliciously and without reason imputes a crime or fault to another of which he is innocent See Slander.

This is a statement of something tending to cat down the extent of title to some estate vested in the plaintiff. Such statement, in order to be actionable, must be false and malici

A person who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. Webster. One who is

The condition of a slave; that civll relation in which one man has absolute power over the llfe, fortune, and lib. erty of another.

The traffic in slaves or the buying and selling of slaves for profit.

This word, in an indictment, adds nothing to the force and effect of the word "kill," when used with reference to the taking of human life. It is particularly applicable to the ink

A hurdle to draw traitors to execution. 1 Hale, P. C. 82.

A dormant partner ; one whose name does not appear ia the firm, and who takes no active part in the business, but who has an interest in the concern, and shares the profits, and th

In English law. An expression frequently used in coal-mine leases and agreements for the same. It signifies a fixed or dead, i. e., certain, rent, as distinguished from a rent or r

As to slight "Care," "Evidence," "Fault," and "Negligence," see those titles.

Slight negligence is not slight want of ordinary care contributing to the injury, which would defeat an action for negligence. Slight negligence is defined to be only an absence of

1. In negotiations for a pollcy of insurance. In England, the agreement ls in practice concluded between the parties by a memorandum called the "slip," containing the terms of the

A stirrup. There is a tenure of land in Cambridgeshire by holding the sovereign's stirrup. Wharton.

An arm of a river, flowing between islands and the main-land, and separating the islands from one another. Sloughs have not the breadth of the main river, nor does the main body of

A rent paid to the castle of Wigmore, in lieu of certain days' work in harvest, heretofore reserved to the lord from his tenants. Cowell.

An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice. Specifically, a trench constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs or lumber can be floated down to a convenient p

In old records. A small, light vessel; a smack. Cowell.

The several county courts established by St. 9 & 10 Viet. c. 95, for the purpose of bringing justice home to every man's door.

All personui and mixed tithes, and also hops, flax, saffrons, potatoes, and sometimes, by custom, wood. Otherwise called "privy tithes." 2 Steph. Comm. 726.

Vindictive or exemplary damages. See Brewer v. Jacobs (C. G.) 22 Fed. 224; Springer v. Somers Fuel Co.., 196 Pa. 156, 46 AH. 370; Day v. Woodworth, 13 How. 371, 14 L. Ed. 181; Murp

In old English law. An umpire or arbitrator.

In old English law. An annual rent paid to cathedral churches; another name for the pentecostals or customary oblations offered by the dispersed inhabitants within a diocese, when

In English law. A sum paid to the ministers of divers parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. Blount.

The act, with intent to defraud, of bringing into the United States or with like intent, attempting to bring into the United States, dutiable articles, without passing the same or

The offense of importing prohibited articles or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may b

At his own risk. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 5, § 5.

Under the hope of reconcilement. 2 Kent, Comm. 127,

In English law. This is a duty, (varying from one to ten per cent.,) payable under the statute 16 & 17 Viet, c. 51, in respect chiefly of real estate and leaseholds, but generally

In old English law. Esnecy; the right or privilege of the eldest barn. Speiman; Glanv. lib. 7, c. 3; Fleta, llb. 2, c. 66, §§ 5, 6.

This phrase denoted the duty of attending the lord's court, and. in common with fealty, was one of the incidents of a feudal holding. Brown.

The pursuing a man for breach of the king's peace by treasons, insurrections, or trespasses. Cowell.

A small sum of money paid in lieu of attendance at the court-baron. Cowell.

A small duty which was paid by servlle tenants in Wy-legh to the abbot of Colchester. Cowell.

See Protest.

A writ in the nature of a writ of right brought by the lord against a tenant who had disclaimed his tenure, to recover the land.

Upon a mortgage. In some states the method of enforcing the security of a mortgage, upon default, is by a writ of "scire facias sur mortgage," which requires the defendant (mortgag

This term is sometimes the equivalent of "hence," or "therefore," and it is thus understood whenever what follows is an illustration of or conclusion from, what has gone before, Cl

Span. Above; over; upon. Ruis v. Chambers, 15 Tex. 586, 592.

In Spanish law. Superior judges. Las Partidas, pt 3, tit 41. 1.

Lat In the civil law. The children of cousins german in general.

A seigniory or lordship, enfranchised by the king, with liberty of holding a court of his socmen or socagers; i. e., his tenants.

Socage tenure, in England, is the holding of certain lands in consideration of certain interior services of husbandry to be performed by the tenant to the lord of the fee. "Socage,

A tenant by socage,

Lat In the civil law. A wlfe's fa ther; a father-in-law. Calvin.

A scheme of government aiming at absolute equality in the distribution of the physical means of life and enjoyment. It is on the continent employed in a larger sense; not necessari

In Spanish law. Partnership. Schm. Civil Law, 153, 154. —Sociedad anonima. In Spanish and Mexican law. A business corporation. "By the corporate name, the shareholders' names are u

In Spanish and Mexican law. A business corporation. "By the corporate name, the shareholders' names are unknown to the world; and, so far as their .connection with the corporation

Lat. In the civil law. Partnership ; a partnership; the contract of partnership. Inst 3, 26. A contract by which the goods or labor of two or more are united in a common stock, for

That kind of society or partnership by which the entire profits belong to some of the partners, in exclusion of the rest So called in allusion to the fable of the 1 lion, who, havi

Fr. In French law. Partnership. See Commendam. —Society anonyme. An association where the liability of all the partners is limited. It had fin England until lately no other name th

In Louisiana. A partnership formed by a contract by which one person or parthership agrees to furnish another person or partnership , a certain amount., either in property or money

An association or company of persons (generally not incorporated) united together for any mutual or common purpose. In a wider sense, the community or public; the people in general

An association where the liability of all the partners is limited. It had fin England until lately no other name than that of "chartered company," meaning thereby a joint-stock com

The partner of my partner is not my partner. Dig. 50, 17, 47, 1.

Lat In the civil law. A partner.

A socager. —Free socmen. In old English law. Tenants in free socage. Glanv. lib. 3, c. 7 ; 2 Bl. Comm. 79.

Free tenure by socage.

A privilege, liberty or franchise. Cowell.

A custom of grinding corn at the lord's mill. Cowell. Bond-socome la where the tenants are bound to it Blount

In Saxon law. Jurisdiction; a power or privilege to administer justice and execute the laws; also a shire, circuit or territory. Cowell.

One who has bcen guilty of sodomy.

In criminal law. The crime of unnatural sexual connection; so named from its prevalence in Sodoin. See Genesis, xix. This term is often defined in stafutes and judicial decisions a

Go. Litt 86, Socage is the same as service of the sec; and sec is the same thing as a plow.

The formula at the end of a common oath.

The surface or surface-covering of the land, not including minerals beneath it or grass or plants growing upon it But in a wider (and more usual) sense, the term is equivalent to "

Fr. Let it be; be it so. A term used in several Law-French phrases employed in English law, particularly as expressive of the will or assent of the sovereign in formal communicatio

Let it be delivered to the commons. The form of indorsement on a bill when sent to the house of commons. Dyer, 93a.

Let it be delivered to the lords. The form of indorsement bn a bill in parliament when sent to the house of lords. Hob. Ilia.

In English law. Let right be done to the party. A phrase written on a petition of right, and subscribed by the king.

Let it be as it is desired. The royal assent to private acts of parliament.

This term means something more than "traveling," and applies to a temporary, as contradistinguished from a permanent, residence. Henry v. Ball, 1 Wheat. 5,4h Ed. 21.

Lands and tenements which were not held by knight-service, nor by grand serjeanty, nor by petit, but by simple services; being, as it were, lands enfranchised by the king or his pr

In English law. Those who held their lands in socage. 2 Bl. Comm. 100.

The lord's rent gatherer in the soca. Cowell.