Science
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Science signifies knowledge, the knowledge of many. It springs from the recognition of the existence of general truths or laws, to which the relation of things and their operation upon each other conform. These laws or truths ascertained by the investigation of men devoted to particular departments of inquiry, methodically digested and arranged so as to be attainable, constitute science.
3 Bosworth (N. Y.) 13.
It is not synonymous with "art". Eg., Rifle shooting, though it may be an art, is not a science.
Fletcher Encyclopedia Corporations 241.
SCIENDUM (Lat.) In English law. The name given to a clause inserted in the record, by which it is made "known that the justice here in court, in this same term, delivered a writ thereupon to the deputy sheriff of the county aforesaid, to be exe- SCIENDUM EST (Lat. it is to be known, or understood). A phrase frequently used in the civil law, in the commencement of paragraphs or other divisions of a subject, as preliminary to some explanation, or as calling attention to some particular rule. Sciendum itaque est, omnia fidei commissa primis temporibus infir Tna fuisse, it is to be known, then, that all trusts were, in their origin, weak.
Inst. 2. 23. 1.
SCIENTER (Lat. knowingly). The allegation of knowledge on the part of a defendant or person accused, which is necessary to charge upon him the consequences of the crime or tort. A man may do many acts which are justifiable or not, as he is ignorant or not ignorant of certain facts. He may pass a counterfeit coin, when he is ignorant of its being counterfeit, and is guilty of no offense; but if he knew the coin to be counterfeit, which is called the scienter, he is guilty of passing counterfeit money.
SCIENTIA SCIOLORUM EST MIXTA IGnorantia
The knowledge of smatterers is mixed ignorance.
8 Coke, 159.
SCIENTIA UTRIUSQUE PAR PARES contrahentes faclt. Equal knowledge on both sides makes the contracting parties equal.
3 Burrows, 1910.
SCIENTII ET VOLUNTI NON FIT INJUria
A wrong is not done to one who knows and walls it.