A Law Dictionary and Glossary

An instrument in writing debt due, or acknowledged to be due,

L In t Jie civil law. Form; figure made, or shaped out of any substance.

I. A particular kind or class. In Scots law. Species facti: the a person is charged.

I. In the civil law. A to materials; the mode of acquiring thing belonging to another.

Characterizing a species or form or designation; particular; by will, of a specified thing; a described collectively; m a strict chattel. Speciflc performance: precise form, or acc

A particular description description of an invention or discovery, ing and using; in architecture, a tion and of all material, with a and of the mode of joining.

I. In the civil law. Distinguished.

I. Hope. Spes accrescendi: hope andi: hope of recovering (a prize or

In English law. The partnership: a partnership limited subject. Special property: kind. Special rule: a rule in court. Special traverse: a as distinguished from a comthe denial, in

Destruction of a thing by the act lation of a writing by a stranger. In English ecclesiastical law. An injury cumbent to another, in taking the fruits right

I In old English law. Forcible disseisin.

I. In old English law. A despoiler (of a deed). Spoliatus debet ante omnia restitul, I A prived of possession] ought first of all to be

I In the civil and common law. A fully taken from another.

I In the civil law. To undertake for.

I. He promises the to do the work in a skilful or workmanlike Spondes! Spondeo, I. I.i the Roman law. dertake. The common form of vei'bal

I. Spousals; actual marriaga In the civil and canon law. Spousals, or ance; a mutual contract of future marriage. a mutual promise of marriage to be had praisenti: a mutual promise

I. In the civil law. An engagement larly such as was in form an answer to a engagement to pay a certain sum to the In Scots law. Spousi^o Indicra: a trifling a court will not susta

Engagements made on behalf of cially authorized, or exceeding the limits which they purport to be made.

I. In the Roman law. A largess, donation; an official perquisite; something dinary fee allowed by law.

In old English law. Mutual promises

In old English law. Adultery.

In American law. A branch from a spring.

A use limited to arise on a ceding estate, and not to take effect in interest. deprivation of possession; of a stranger; the mutidone by one clerk or inof his benefice without; a d

I In the civil laio. A bastard; the oflfspring of promiscuous cohabitation; one born of an unlawful intercourse.

In American law. One who settles on another^s land; one who settles on public land without title or authority. SS. Letters in the statement of the venue in a record, pleading or af

In old English law. Standing ready with bow bent or with hounds in leash ready to let slip, — one of the four evidences of intent to kill deer in a forest

I. In the civil law. A stable-keeper.

A depositary of money deposited by parties, with a naked authority to deliver to one of them upon a certain contingency.

In English law. The liberty of erecting stalls in fairs or markets; a duty paid for the liberty.

To abide; to submit to; to have force or strength; to remain, to remain in force; to appear in coui't. Stand aside: applied to a juror, means that he is not to be presently accepte

In English law. Courts held for the stannaries, or tin mines in Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners.

In English law. An established mart or market; a place where the buying and selling of wool, lead, leather and other articles were put under certain terms; the hereditary customs o

To set down or set forth; to relate at length, or in full; to express in words the particulars of a matter; to mention in general terms, or by way of reference State a case: to agr

A political body, or body politic; the body of a people united under a government; condition, v. Status. In old English law. Estate; an estate.

Settled; closed; established in order, — as a stated account, a stated term of court.

I. In old English lav). Immediately.

/. In old English law. A statute; an act of parliament Statutnm affirmati Tum non derogat commnui legi: an affirmative statute does not derogate from the common law. Statutnm est v

I. In the Roman law. One who is made free by will under a condition.

I. In old English law. Estate. In the civil law. Standing; condition; state; the condition of a person, as being either free or slave.

In old Scots law. To establish.

An act of legislature declaring, commanding or prohibiting something. Statute of frauds: v. Frauds, statute of. Statute of limitations: a statute by which rights of action are limi

In English law. A security for a debt, entered into before the chief magistrate of some trading town, by which the body of the debtor might be imprisoned, and his goods seized in s

To stop, to arrest or suspend, as a judgment or sentence.

A stopping, an arrest or suspension, as of a judgment or sentence. Stay law: a statute relieving debtors from the oppressive use of remedies for the collection of debts.

In Scots law. Seed grain, cattle and implements of husbandry delivered by landlord to tenant for v^orking a farm, which the tenant is required to return in kind on expiration of th

stillyard, stilyard. In old English law. A place or house in London, where the fraternity of the Easterling merchants had their abode.

I. In the civil law. A general name for acts of fraud having no other name.

In Scots law. The crime of aliening the same subject to different persons.

strebrech, sax. In old English law. The offense of breaking up, obstructing, or narrowing a way or road.

In English laiv. Current or standard coin, especially silvei coin; a standard of coinage. In old English law. A penny.

I In the law of divorce, cruelty bodily harm, and in that manner

To stop; to hesitate; to decline to accede. Stick in the bark: V. Cortex; Qui hosret, 6tc.

I. In the civil law. Drip; the dripping of water froin the eaves of a house; the servitude of suffering such dripping on one's land from the house of another.

In English law. Limit; a limited number. Used to describe a species qf common.

An undertaking in writing to do a certain act; in ad-

I. In the civil law. The pay of a soldier; wages; stipend j tribute.

stirps, I In oldJEnglish law. Stock; a stock; a source of descent V. Seisina, etc.

I. In the civil laiv. In a strict sense, to ask or demand something in a certain form of words, which, upon response in a similar form, constituted a contract; in a more general se

I. In the civil law. A contract in a solemn form of words, consisting of an interrogation and a reply, as " Spondesf Spondeo."

I. In the civil law. The party who asked the question in the contract of stipulation.

pi stirpes, I. In the civil law. A stock; a source of descent.

A source or root of succession or descent; the goods and wares of a merchant, kept for sale and traffic; in a larger sense, the capital of a merchant, including merchandise, money

A machine constructed of wood, with holes through which the feet or legs of offenders were passed, and their persons thus confined. Stoppas:e in transitu. Stoppage on the transit o

sc In Scots law. Robbery; a violent taking.

The double privilege of a "put" and a "call," giving the holder a right either to demand or to deliver a certain amount of a commodity, or a certain number of shares of stock, with

A person not a party or privy to an act or contract.

1. 1 In old English law. A street or road. Strata regalis: the king's highway. Stratie pnblicse: public streets.

A nominal or worthless surety; a person who frequents the neighborhood of law courts for the purpose of becoming bail for a consideration. So called because they formerly wore stra

A beast that wanders at large without its owner, and clear of his controL

A current of water; a body of fiowing water. In its common sense, the word includes rivers, but it is said properly to be restricted to water not within banks.

A public way in a city or village, including sidewalks as well as carriage way.

I I. In old English law. Estrepement or strip; a species of waste or destruction of property.

Rigorously regular in form; governed by the rule with the greatest exactness. Strict construction: a construction which adheres closely to the words. In English law. Strict settlem

I. Of strict out equitable interpretation, tissimi juris: of the applied in the strictest

I. In strict

I. Strict guished from equity.

A combination to compel an increase other change in their Striliing' a jury. The a list of jurors prepared reduce it to the number summoned and returned the parties, each party in

Aggravated waste,

A special out a certain number ure: V. Rase.

To make out to Stultiloquium, I I. In ing, for which a fine origin of the fines for

I. At; under; before. under condition. Sub right; — officii: under care of the husband. jndice: under or before ation; undetermined. fied manner or sense. sigilli: under the foot p

An under an agent right or law; according to strict law; withor enlargement of application. Stricstrictest right or law; to be interpreted and manner. law. right or law; the rigor

A contract subordinate to another contract, made between one of the contracting parties and a stranger.

I. I In old English law. To lie under; to be subject to. Subjacere debet juri ubi deliquerit: he ought to be subject to the law [of the place] whex'e he has offended.

That which constitutes the basis or ground work; a person who is under the power and protection of a government Subjectmatter: the matter under consideration or in dispute.

An agreement by which parties consent to submit differences to arbitration.

To place before arbitrators, jury or court for a finding or a decision.

To procure to commit an offense.

The offense of procuring another to commit an offense.

L Under a penalty; a judicial writ commanding the attendance or appearance of a witness or party in court,' under a penalty; in equity, the first process, like the writ in an actio

I. To write under, or at the bottom ment; to write the name under; to subscribe. In the civil law. To consent or assent to a proceeding; to pronounce judgment

Z. In the civil law. A writing name under or at the bottom of an instrument or ratification; subscription; an imperial answer to the prayer of a petitioner present subscription of

The writing of the name or foot of an instrument, by way of execution

L In the Roman law. Lower seats thejudices and inferior magistrates when

Pecuniary assistance from government benefit to the public. In English law. An extraordinary grant of to the crown, — now commonly termed a

I. In the civil law. To undersign

Essence; the material or essential tinguished from its form.

That part of the law which

Any mode of service of ute in place of personal service.

In Scots law. An enumeration scribed in proper technical language. In modern civil law. The designation, in a devise or legacy, on failure of a former him. a succession to the righ