Son

An immediate male descendant In its technical meaning in devises, this is a word of purchase; but the testator may moke it a word of descent Sometimes it is extended to more remote descendants.

2 Des. 123, n.

SON ASSAULT DEMESNE (L. Fr. his own first assault). In Pleading. A form of a plea to justify an assault and battery, by which the defendant asserts that the plaintiff committed an assault upon him and the defendant merely defended himself. When the plea is supported by evidence, it is a sufficient justification, unless the retaliation by the defendant were excessive and bore no proportion to the necessity or to the provocation received; 1 East, PI.

Cr. 406; Scribner v. Beach, 4 Denio (N. Y.) 448, 47 Am. Dec. 265.