Suit Silver
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or SUTER SILVER. A small rent or sum of money paid in some manors to excuse the freeholders' appearance at the courts of their lord.
Cowell.
SUITAS (Law Lat.) In the civil law. The condition or quality of a suus haeres, or proper heir. Halifax, Anal. bk.
2, c.
9, No. 11; Calv. Lex. This term seems to have been framed by the later civilians. SUITE (Blench.) Those persons who, by his authority, follow or attend an ambassador or other public minister. In general, the suite of a minister are protected from arrest, and the inviolability of his person is communicated to those who form his suite. Vattel, lib.
4, c. 9, § 120; 1 Dall. (Pa.) 177; Baldw. (U. S.) 240.
See "Ambassador."
See Ambassador.