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Suggestive Interrogation

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A phrase which has been used by some.writers to signify the same thing as "leading question."

2 Benth. Ev. bk. 3, c. 3.

It is used in the French law. SUI GENERIS (Lat.) Of its own kind; the only one of its kind. SUI HAEREDES (Lat.) In the civil law. One's own heirs; proper heirs.

Inst. 2. 19. 2; Dig. 38. 16.

SUI JURIS (Lat. of his own right). Possessing all the rights to which a freeman is entitled; not being under the power of another, as a slave, a minor, and the like. To make a valid contract, a person must, in general, be sui juris. Every one of full age is presumed to be sui juris.

Story, Ag. 10.