English law
Defined in 1 dictionary — Kinney (1893)
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
Security; surety. acquittance, or release.
In old English law. Writ of security of the lay for one who was in fear of some bodily makes secure; an instrument given to secure an act or contract; a person bound by such an negotia commissa pluribus, et pins yident I Matters entrusted to several are more seand [several] eyes see more than [onej eye. or sura amiss; contrary. allocatur: but it is not allowed. Sed per court. settled purpose. court sitting; during the setting of the court. coiu-t, or the judges of a court be satisfactory to a judga law. They sat; the session or sitting of a court. law. Sedition; treason. Disturbance of the public tranquillity. consisting of attempts made by meetings, or by to disturb the tranquillity of the state, or to against the government; conduct tending toward in the overt act of a woman; the ofifense of inducing a influence, promise or deception to consent to law. Seal; a seal In old English law. Lord; a lord; owner or and English law. Lordship; the estate of a by the tenant; a lordship or manor. Seigniory independent of a manor, as that of the king land under claim of at least a freehold interest as of fee: holding a fee simple in a corporea' superior lord. land under claim of at least a freehold interest; the word is used in some of the states, owneractual possession; investiture of a freehold,— feudal sense of the word. Seisin in law: the a freehold has not entered,