A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. In the civil law. The single value of a thing.

Pure; unmixed; unqualified; composed of the fewest elements. Simple contract: a contract not under seal. Simple larceny: mere larceny, as distinguished from larceny from the person

Lat. Simple; unqualified; single. Simplex commendatio: mere commendation or praise; — non obligat: mere commendation does not bind. Simplex obligatio: a single obligation; a bond w

et nimia subtilitas injure reprobatur, I Simplicity is a favorite of the laws, and too great subtlety in law is reprobated.

I. Simply; by or in itself; by its own force; without addition.

Fictitious; feigned.

In the civil law. Misrepresentation or concealment of the truth.

Without. Sine animo revertendi: without the intention of returning. Sine consideratione curiae: without the judgment of the court. Sine cura: without cure or charge; without any du

A written engagement under seal, for the payment of money without a penalty. Single bond: a bond without a condition.

I Singly; in the singular.

In Scots law. A purchaser, in contradistinction, to the heir of a landed proprietor.

1. 1. In old Soots law. Disseisin; dispossession.

In Scots law. A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order fora stay of proceedinga

In Scots law. To stay proceedings.

The holding of a court, with full form, and before all the judges; the holding of a court of nisi prius by one or more of the

siwyte, I. fr. In old English law. Suit.

In English law. Ofl Scers on the equity side of the court of chancery who received and filed all bills, answers, replications, and other papers, etc.

Defamation by words spoken. Slander of title: defamation of one's property, real or personal, or of one's interest therein.

A person who is wholly subject to another; one who is bound to sei've for life; a bondman.

The state or condition of a slave; the institution in virtue of which a person is held in that condition.

The care which men of common sense apply to their own affairs, though inattentive to them.

L In the civil law. To produce a party in court Sit To occupy a seat; to be permanently fixed; to be prepared for deliberate action.

Vindictive or exemplary damages.

In old English law. An annual rent paid to cathedral churches.

In English law. A sum paid to the ministers of various parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. So help me God. The formula with which an oath concludes when the words of it are

1. 1. In its in its own nature and

I I. In old English law. To sub-delegate; to delegate power already delegated.

U In old English law. A vassal; a dependent; any one under the power of another.

I In the civil laio. To sell at public auction, which was done sub hasta, under a spear. (^nbhastatio, L In the civil law. A sale by public auction, which was done under a spear, s

The putting of one person or the putting of one person in the place of where one person having paid the debt of rights.

In feudal law. The granting of a feud or flef out of another, to be held by an under tenant

I Removed; taken away. Sublata causa, tollitur effectus: the cause removed, the effect is gone. Sublata veneratione ma^lstratnum, respublica ruit: respect for magistrates taken awa

L Removed; taken away. Sublato fnndamento, cadit opns; the foundation removed, the work falls. Snblato principal!, tollitur adjunctum: the principal taken away, the incident is tak

surrogare, I In the civil law. To substitute; to put in the place of; to add to (a law). I in the place of another as a creditor, with of the latter. Snbi'ogatio est transfnsio ead

surroguer, I fr. To make a deputy stitute.

A person or thing put in the place

I I. In old English law. Under-aheriflf.

L In the civil law. A coming in place of another, on his decease; a coming into the estate which a deceased person had at the time of his death, either under an appointment by will

The right by which one set of men, by succeeding another set, may acquire a property in all the goods and other chattels of a corporation. In Soots and modern civil law. A right to

snniner. In old English law. One of two or more persons by whom a defendant was summoned to appear in court, in compliance with a writ; a petty officer wlio called or cited persons

I. To give to each one his own.

t /. In old English law. An over demand; a demand, of more than was just

I. In the dvil law. One to whom a right of surface was granted.

I. In the civil law. A species of obliteration!

I, fr. To arise; to be raised.

1. 1. In old English law. To render up; to surrender.

/. I In old English law. A surrender.

1. 1. In old English law. To hang; to execute by hanging. Suspensns: hanged.

socha, L I. Soc, or sock; a seigniory with liberty of holding a court of his tenants; a liberty or privilege; a manor or lordship.

soccage, Socagium, soccagium, sockagium, sokaginm, I I In English law. A tenure by any certain and determinate service not military. Free socage, the most honorable of this kind of

I. In old English laic. Complicity in crime. In the civil law. Partnership; a partnership; the contract of partnership.

In old English law. Partnership.

I In old English law. An associate; a fellow; a companion in crime; an accomplice; an associate judge or justice. In the civil law. A partner. Socli mei socins mens socins non est:

sokman, sokeman, saoc, Socmaiiuus, sokmannus, sokemannns,

?. Z. In old English law. A privilege; a liberty or franchisa

I fr. To sufi Eer; to permit; to forbear.

Soile, soyle, soylle, I fr. In old English law. Land; ground; earth.

soiet, L. Fr. In old English law. Be; be it; let it be. Soient, soint: are; they are; let them be; they should be. Soit baille: let it be delivered; — aux commons: let it be delive

/. fr. In old English law. Socmen.

In old English law. An ofi Scer who collected rents of tenants.

The period of time which begins at sunrise and ends at sunset Solar mouth: a calendar month.

I. In the civil law. A rent paid for the ground, where a person built on the public land.

I. Consolation; compensation; sentimental damages.

A note or memorandum of sale, given by the broker who effects it to the seller, v. Bought note,

Single; alone; composed of a single person, v. Corporation sole; Feme sole.

Formal; in regular form. Solemn war: a war made in form; a war solemnly declared by one state against another.

I In the civil law. Solemn forms of laws; forms of forensic proceedings and of transacting legal acts. -

I. In old English law. A solemnity; a solemn form; a formal observance. Solemnitas attachiamentorum: solemnity or formality of attachments. Solemnitas iutervenire debet in mntation

I. fr. I^old English law. Solemn. Solempne crie: solemn proclamatio

I. fr. In old English law. Solemnity; formality. Solempnite de attachementz: solemnity or formality of attachments. Solempnite des esposailles: solemnization of marriage.

A person admitted to practice in courts of chancery, corresponding with attorney at common law. In English law. Solicitor-general: a law officer of the crown appointed by patent, a

Z. In the civil law. An entire or undivided thing; the whole.

L I. In old English law. Two plough-lands, and somewhat less than a half. Solo cedit quod solo implantatnr, I. In the civil law. That which is planted in the soil belongs to the so

2. In the civil law. Payment; the satisfaction or discharge of an obligation in any mode. Solutio indebiti: payment of what is not due; payment by mistake, of money not due; a cont

I In Scots law. Purged. In the civil law. Loosed; set at liberty.

solonc, soloinc, I. fr. In old English law. After; according to.

I. In the civil law. The soil; ground.

Ability to pay; present ability to pay; ability to pay one's debts out of one's present means.

Paying, — the apt word in old conveyances for reserving a rent. In the civil law. Solvent; able to pay; able to pay in full. Solvendo esse nemo intelligitur nisi qui solidum potest

L To be paid at a future time.

I. In old English law. To be paid.

Able to pay; able to pay out of present means; able to pay one's debts in full out of one's present means.

I. In the civil law. To pay; to do what one has undertaken to do; to loosen or disengage; to release one's self from obligation, as by payment of a debt

I. He paid; paid. Solvit ad diem: he paid at the day, — the name of a plea, in an action on a bond. Solvit post diem: he paid after the day, — the name of a plea in an action on a

A division of the as, or pound, or duodecimal pai'ts, and amounting to two-thirds of an inheritance; eight per cent fr. In old English law. A writ which lay died seised of lands an

I. fr. Summons; a summons.

I. fr. His. Son assault demesne: his own assault, — the name of a plea in an action of trespass for an assault, that it was the plaintiflE's own assault that occasioned the injury,

A mortuary offering; a corse-present.

fr. Under his private signature, — a writing privately signed, not authenticated before a public officer.

I. In the civil law. That which hurts, or hinders; that which tends to delay or put off; that which authorizes or excuses delay.

I. fr. In old English law. Under. Sonth boys: underwood. South dean: sub dean. South riscount: under sheriff.

L fr. In old English law. Underwritten.

The plaintiff's answer of fact to the defendant's rebutter.

I In the civil law. A lot; chance, hazard, fortune; the capital stock of a partnership; a principal sum as distinguished from interest; a thing recovered in an action.

L In the civil law. A casting or drawing of lots. Sortitift judicnm: a drawing of judges on criminal trials.

Of supreme power, civil, military and political; the person or body of persons in whom such power resides.

In old English law. To be leviable, — a term applied to sheriffs' returns.

L Scattered; here and thera

A demurrer in equity which alleges new matter.

Relating to a species, to a single sort or kind. Special agent: an agent appointed or constituted for a special purpose. Special bail: bail to the action, given as a security to ab