A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Possession of in a looser sense, as ship. Seisin in fact: which is seisin in the guaranty; to make safe or certaiD.

seyslna, saisina, I. I In old English law. Seisin; possession of a freehold estate. Seisina facit stipitem: seisin makes the stock; seisin of a person makes him the root or stock f

Z. Z. In old English law. To take; to be seised. Seisitus: seised.

A taking of a thing into possession under authority of law, — manual, where the nature of the property admits of such taking; a taking of a ship under public authority for violatio

I fr. In old English law. Slander.

I. In the Roman law. Selected judges; persons chosen by lot, out of a larger number, to act as judices in criminal cases.

The general executive officers of the town, in the New England system of local self-government.

The protection by one of his person or property from an injury attempted by another; the right of such protection. The use of force is justified, and where the attempt is upon the

I. fr. Seems; it seems. A word used to introduce an opinion on a point not definitely settled, or an opinion as to the bearing of some decision on a particular point; an unsettled

/. fr. Likewise.

semestre, I. Of, or for six months.

I. In the Roman law. Half-marriage. Concubinage was so called.

Z.\ In the dvil law. Half-full proof; half-proof.

I. Always. Semper ita flat relalio, ut valeat digpositio: reference [of a disposition in a will] should always be so made that the disposition may have effect. Semper praesumitur p

sews, I. fr. Sense; reason; understanding.

I. In old English law. A member council board; a king's councillor. Senatores regis: councillors are parta of the king's In the Saxon law. An alderman. In the Roman law. A member o

I. In the Roman law. The national people; the senate; the place where the sultum: a decree of the senate; — nltiniie of the senate of the last necessity, — the which usually preced

Z., Seneschal, /r. In old English ard of a manor; the steward of the king's

1. Sense; meaning; reason; understanding. the sense of the words; — est anima legis: is the soul of the law; — ex causa dicendi mones semper accipiendi sunt secundnm the sense of w

The judgment in a criminal casa In the civil law. The judgment of a court ing of a causa

I. Sense; meaning; sentence; judice lata nemini debet noccre: a sentence not a'judge [has not jurisdiction] ought to facii jus, et legls interpretatio legis vim ion makes law, and

I. I. In old English law. Several; a several or separate share or portion; a separate property.

Distinct; set apart; severed; belonging to, enjoyed or enjoyable by one person or class of persons. Separate estate: property given or settled to the separate use of a married woma

I. In old English law. Severally. A word which made a several covenant.

I. In the civil law. To sequester. Sequcstravit, et sub sequestro arcto tenuit: (he) sequestered, and held under close sequestration. In English ecclesiastical law. Sequestrari fac

I. In old English law. Let him follow at his peril; a writ which issued after a return of nihil, on a summoneas ad warrantizandum, and after issue of an alias and pluries.

I. I In old English law. Suit; process or prosecution; following or followers. Sequela causse: the process of a cause; the, process and depending issue of a cause or trial. Sequela

1. In the civil law. A person with whom contending parties deposited the subject-matter of the controversy.

In equity, to take possession of the property of a defendant, and keep it to enforce a decree, or until the defendant clears himself of a contempt; in international law, to seize t

In international law, the seizure of the property of a person, and appropriation of it to the use of the government. In English law. The. taking of possession of a defendant's prop

serinent, I. fr. In old English law. An oath.

serfe, I fr. In old English law. A slave.

I. fr. In old Scots law. Serjeant

serjanteria, serjantia, I. I. In old English law. Serjeanty.

I. I. In order; one after another.

I. fr. In old English law. Serjeant

serjant, serjent, I. fr. and eng. The title of several officers in the common law, generally of the ministerial class. In American law. An officer who attends upon the sessions of

In English law. Service; a special kind of feudal service held only of the king. v. Grand serjeanty; Special serjeanty.

I fr. In old English law. Oath; an oath.

In old English law. Marked or cut in notches, resembling the teeth of a saw.

One who serves; one who serves another, termed the master, under a contract of hire. v. Fellow-servant; Vice-principal.

To deliver with judicial effect; to deliver so as to charge a party, in law, with delivery. In Scots law. To declare the fact of heirship judicially.

I. In old English law. Bondmen; servile tenants. communication of execution of subject him to its operation; delivery of a pleading, notice, or other paper to the adverse party to

1. 1 In old English law. A serjeant; a counter or pleader; a sheriff's officer; a bailiff; any ministerial officer; a vassal, or feudal tenant; a servant Servians ad clavam: serjea

Serving; subject to a service or servitude.

In feudal and old English law. The duty of a tenant to his lord, by reason of his fee. Servitium brigandinum: v. Servitium militare. Servitium forinsecum: forinsic, foreign, or ext

- In old English law. Servants or messengers of the marshal of the King's Bench, employed to summon to court

A charge on one estate for the benefit of another, — a species of incorporeal right derived from the civil law, resembling the easement of the common law.

/. In the civil law. Slavery; bondage; the state of service. A service or servitude; a burden imposed on one person or estate for the benefit of another. Servitus actus: the servit

I. In the civil and old English law. A slave; a bond-man; a servant. Servus facit ut herus det: the servant does [the work] in consideration of his master's giving [him wages].

resolvitnr jns conccssum, I. Where the right of the grantor is extinguished, the right granted is extinguished.

In English law. A tax, rate or assessment

I. In old English law. A sitting; a session. Sesaio parliament!: the sitting of parliament

The sitting of a court; the time during which a court is held. In Scots law. Session, Court of: the supreme civil court of Scotland.

A sitting of justices in court, most commonly for the trial of criminal cases. The title of several courts, Enghsh and American. In English law. Sessions of the peace: a sitting of

The several parts of a writing drawn in duplicate. Set of exchange: a bill of exchange drawn in several parts, any one of which being paid the others are to be void.

To annul, make void or vacate. Set out: to aver or allega Set up: to assert, as a demand or a defense.

A counter-claim or demand; a demand set up against another demand, for the purpose of reducing or extinguishing it; the subtraction of the one demand from the other. A set-oflE may

In Scots law. The granter of a tack or lease.

To make a final disposition of a demand, by payment or otherwise; to adjust a difference between parties; to determine the form of, as an issue, or a bill of exceptions; to take up

A settled place of abode; a right growing out of residence; a right to be considered a resident, chiefly for the purpose of relief as a poor person; a disposition of property by de

To separate or divide, as to separate in pleading.

Separate; distinct; independent; exclusive; consisting of a number. Several covenant: a covenant by two or more, separately; a covenant so made as to bind the parties severally, or

A state of separation; as applied to an estate, one that is held by a person in his own right only, without any other person being joined or connected with him, in point of interes

Separation, ov division, as in pleading, or among coparceners or joint tenanta

I. The sixth of the decretals, — one of the subdivisions of the canon law.

I I In old English law. Seisin; possession of lands; or a freehold estate in lands.

I. I. In old English law. To take; to take possession; to seisa

In English law. an intercommoning of

May be construed sense.

A part or portion. proportions.

rule in. limitation of an estate dren, or heirs in fee or garded as words of fee to the first taker. reported by Coke.

The chief civil execution of the laws with some judicial as of executing the process rests, etc. Sheriff's inquisition before a a sale by a sheriff or his process. In Scots law. Sh

The term of

The jurisdiction

A use which other, by matter of

In its general sense, stricter sense, a vessel and top-gallant masts. ' several part-owners of the common benefit. required by law to be ship, the register, the charter-party, the

To put on board a term, to send by other boat, canal boat, or a seaman, for a certain

In Scots

The charterer or goods. Shipping articles. An vessel and the seamen The straying of cattle into uninclosed land; cattle. in the permissive as well as the imperative but false in fa

Tlie breaking of a ship so that she no longer exists in her original nature.

In Saxon law. The county court Shire-reere, shireve: the reeve or bailiflf of the shire,— the viscount of Anglo-Norman, and the sheriff of later times.

Land on the margin of the sea, or a lake, or river; the land alternately covered and bared by the rising and falling of the tide; the space betwreen high and low-water marks. Si, e

I. Thus; so. Sic hie: so here. Sic interpretandum est nt verba accipiantnr cum effectu: [a statute] is to be so interpreted that the words may be taken with efifect [that its words

I. In the civil law. An assassin; one who carried a dagger or other weapon, with intent to kill.

sc. In old Scots law. A sure pledge.

I. fr.' So; as. Sicome son several: as his several. Slcome moy ayde Dieu: so help me God.

or questmen. In English ecclesiastical law. Persons yearly chosen, according to the custom in every parish, to assist in presenting such offenders to the ordinary as are punishable

I. Often. Si Bpius requisitusi

I. In English law. A seal. Sigillnm adnlterinnm: a spurious or counterfeit seal. Sigillum est cera impressa: a seal is wax impressed

To affix the name to an instraraent or writing, — not necessarily, though usually, at the foot or bottom.

t In the dvil law. To seal; to afi Sx a seal; to confirm by a seal.

The writing or subscribing of one's name on an instrument by which it is made the act Of the party subscribing; the name so subscribed.

In English law. One of the queen's seals used in sealing private letters and grants under thp sign manual.

In English laio. That clause in the writ de contumace capiendo which states that a competent person has signified to the king that the person against whom the writ is issued is man

I. In old English law. A seal. In the civil law. A. sign; a mark; a seal; a species of proof. In Saxon law. A cross prefixed to the name of a subscribing witness, as a sign of asse

I. The power of law is suspended during war.

I Likewise; the like. The short formula used either at the end of pleadings, or by itself, expressive of the acceptance of an issue of fact; a joinder in issue.

In old English law. Similitude; likeness; similarity. Similitudo legalis est, casuum diversorum inter se collatorum similis ratio; quod in uno similium valet, valebit in altero: le

In English ecclesiastical law. The presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice, for money or reward.