Subscription List

A list of subscribers to some agreement with each other or a third person. SUBSELLIA (Lat. from sub, under, and sella, a seat). In the Roman law. Lower seats or benches, occupied by the judices (judges or jurors), and by inferior magistrates when they sat in judgment, as distinguished from the tribunal of the praetor. Calv. Lex.; Budaeus. SUBSEQUENS MATRIMONIUM TOLLIT peccatum praecedens. A subsequent marriage (of the parties) removes a previous fault, i. e., previous illicit intercourse, and legitimates the offspring. A rule of Roman law.