A Law Dictionary and Glossary

i A putting of one person in the In the civU law. The appointment of one another, in the event of the first not taking.

subvalvassores, I. I In old Scots law. Base holders; inferior holders.

One who follows another; one who comes into the place of another.

sc. In Scots law. Lands bound or astricted to a particular mill, or the tenants or proprietors of which are bound to use a particular mill. \

To follow at law; to prosecute judicially; to commence a suit; to prosecute a suit already begun. Sue out: to obtain judicially and issue, — applied only to process, particularly s

seurte, I. fr. Surety.

To permit; knowing, not to hinder. Willingness is implied.

Toleration; permission, without right; permission by neglect to enforce a right.

In English ecclesiastical law. Assistant; an assistant to the bishop of a diocese.

I. In the Roman law. A vote; the right of voting in the assemblies of the people; aid or influence used or promised to obtain some honor or office.

Z. Representation of untruth; false representation.

A statement or entry on a record made by way of information to the court of some fact which has occurred in the progress of a cause; a statement made incidentally, or out of the co

The intentional destruction of one's self, by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind; in a larger sense, the voluntary killing of one's self, from whatever cause.

suyt, suy te, I, fr. In old English law. Suit; action; the followers of a plaintiff, whom he produced to support his count or declaration; the retinue, chattels, offspring and appu

A following; prosecution; the prosecution of some demand in a court of justice. The word includes both proceedings at law and proceedings in equity, while action is properly restri

L I. In the eiml law. The condition or quality of a proper heir.

One who has a suit; a party to a suit Suitor's fund: in chancery practice, money and interest paid into court by litigants. In old English law. One who attended at court; a tenant

In English law. A summary or abstract; a compendium; a collection.

Of Koially to notify a party that he has been sued, that he may appear and answer; in some states, to subpoena a witness.

I. I. In old English law. Summon you; a writ of summons; a writ by which a party was summoned to appear in court you to warranty; a writ issued to summon a person vouched to warran

t I. In old English law. A summoning or summons; a writ by which a party was summoned to appear in court; a command or precept of the king that one be before him, to answer or to d

A writ or process by which an action is begun, the defendant being thereby summoned to appear in court to answer the plaintiff; in the code states, a mere notice that an action has

To bring together under a single view; to recapitulate; particularly to bring together and review the evidence in the closing address of counsel, or in the charge of the court to t

The first day of the week, the Sabbath,— a day on which nojudicial act can be done, and no arrest can be made, save in criminal cases, and on which, by statute, the ordinary transa

Z. Above; over; on; upon. Super altnm mare: on the highi sea. Super se suseeperunt: they undertook. Super visum corporis: upon view of the body.

L I. In old Scots law. To have a balance of account due to one.

In the civil law. The surface; everything on the surface of land or of a building, and so closely connected with it by art or nature as to constitute a part of it. Superflua non no

I. In the civil law. Buildings erected on hired ground.

Higher in rank or authority. Superior courts: courts of a high and extensive jurisdiction; in America, commonly a court of large original jurisdiction, but, except for smaller matt

In Soots law. One of whom lands are held by another, answering to the lord of the English law; the holder of the dominiwii directum of lands. Superior aud vassal: the one of whom l

In Scots law. The dominium directum of lands, without the profit

1. 1 In old English law. To surcharge; to over-burden. Superoneravit: has surcharged.

I. I. In old English law. Surcharge; a surcharging; a surcharging of common. ' Superplnsa^ium, I. I. In old English law. Surplus; residue or balance;

To set above; to make void or inoperative by a superior authority; to stay, suspend or supplant l7i old English law. To omit; to forbear; to refrain or desist; to neglect; to disre

I. Supersede you or desist you; a writ issued to forbid the operation of another writ; a wrjt to stay proceedings or suspend jurisdiction; an auxiliary process to supersede the enf

In 'English law. Uses by bequest to Jews, dissenters and papists, for religious or gwasi-religious purposes, — formerly void by statute.

Added to complete or supply a defect in something precedent, — as an affidavit, a bill in equity, a complaint

In the -civil law. An oath administered to a party where a fact has been proved by only one witness, in order to make full proof.

I. In the civil law, A rejoinder.

I. In the civil law. Punishment

/. He hath besought; a writ in the nature of process, to find sureties of the peace on articles filed for that purposa

Sustenance. Support, right of: the right of a land-owner to have his soil supported in its natural state by soil adjacent; the right of the builder and owner of a house to rest his

I. In old English law. To put under; to put in place of another; to put a false thing in place of the genuine; to put a strange child in place of the true heir.

t Cioncealment; misrepre Bentation. Supprossio vori, sngrgestio falsi: concealment of the truth is [equivalent to] a statement of what is false, — a rule in both law and equity. 8n

I. The last will.

Superior to others; highest; of the last resort Applied commonly to the highest court of a state.

I. In the civil law. Last; the last Supreinns est qnem nemo seqnitur: he is last whom no one follows.

I. fr. In old English law. To supersede; to desist; to surcease.

To overcharge; to overburden; in equity, to add an item to an account Surcliarge of common: the commoning of more beasts than the commoner is entitled to.

A person who engages to be answerable for the debt, default or miscarriage of another. Surety of the peace: a bond or recognizance to keep the peace, acknowledged before a justice

The liability or contract of a surety.

In old English laiv. A suggestion.

Superfluity; more than is necessary or proper; in old law, a sum remaining over; in a written instrument matter superfluous or impertinent

I. Surplusaga Surplusagium non nocet: surplusage does not vitiate.

The act or state of being taken unawares; sudden confusion or perplexity.

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

To give up; to deliver; to make over. Surrender by bail: to give the principal again into custody.

A giving up, delivering or making over. Surrender in deed: a surrender by conveyance, as of a life-estate to the remainderman. Surrender in law: a surrender implied in law, as if a

In English law. A person who surrenders.

Stealthily or fraudulently done, taken away or introduced. '

A person substituted or appointed in the room or place of another; one who represents or acts for another. In Ameriean law. A county ofl Scer who haa jurisdiction in matters of pro

I. I. In old English law. Neglect; default.

/. /r. In old English law. Neglect; default; a ceasing or cessation.

surcesser, I fr. To neglect; to omit doing a thing; to surcease; to fail to obey process.

An examination with reference to extent or condition. Survey of land: a measurement of land to ascertain quantity, fix boundary, etc. Survey of a vessel: a public document by which

To outlive; to live beyond another person, or a particular event

One who survives another; one who outlives another.

In Scots law. A writ passing under the signet, by which the diligence of the law, or the effect of a judgment, may be suspended.

L His; his own. In old English law. Suns judex; one's own judge; a proper judge j a judge having cognizance of a causa

swein-mote, swain-gemote, Swainimotum, swainimotum, swayninotum, Lat. In old English law. A court held before the verderors, as judges, by the steward of the swein-mote, thrice in

sax. Peace and security.

The art of drawing written instruments.

A delivery by symbol; the delivery of a thing by delivering another thing as its symbol or representation.

In the civil law. A bilateral or reciprocal contract, in which the parties expressly enter into mutual engagements, each binding himself to the other.

An aggregation of persons for the purposes of an undertaking too large for successful management by a single person.

gr.-t In the civil law. A defender; one who was chosen to prosecute or defend a certain cause.

An instrument under the hand and seal of all the parties.

synod. A national council of the Saxons.

t In the civil law. A public writer of contracts; one who drew, wrote out, and attested instruments. An officer whose functions were similar to those of a modern notary.

I. In old English law. A drinking house; a tavern; otherwise written tabernaculum. In the civil law. A shop, as being inclosed with boards; any building fit for habitation; a wine-

I In old English law. A taverner or tavern-keeper. In the civil law. A shop-keeper.

2. A board or plank. Tabula in naufragio: a plank in a shipwreck,— a iigurative expression used to denote that preference or priority among mortgagees which is gained by tacking. I

I. A notary, or tabellio.

Implied; not expressea. In Scots law. Tacit relocation: an implied reletting of premises, where the tenant continues in possession after the expiration of his

I. Silent; not speaking; not expressed in words; im^^lied; tacit Tacita qusedam habentur pro expressis: some tacit tiling are regarded as expressed.

In Scots law. A contract by which the use of any thing is set or let for hire, for a certain time.

In English law. The uniting of securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchaser or incumbrancer from claiming a title to redeem or otherwise dischar

In Scots law. A tenant or lessee; the grantee of a tack.

I. I In old English law. Touching the holy (evangelists). Tacto per se sancto Eraugello, 1. 1 Having personally touched the holy Gospel.

Limitation; abridgment Tall after possibility of issue extinct: the estate of a widower having no issue, holding lands under a grant in tail special. Tail female: an estate limited

Limited; abridged; reduced.

tailer, tayler, I. fr. In old English law. To cut; to limit; io tax; to bar; to declaf'e.

In Scots law. An entail.

tliaini, /. I In old English law. Freeholders.

To seize by authority of law; to I'eceive from another by some title; to obtain possession of unlawfully, or feloniously; to lay ■ hands upon without removing; to receive the verdi

The count or counting of money; in old pleading, a plaintiff's count, declaration, or narrative of his case.

I. Such, so many, — a term applied to jurors. Tales de circamstantibns: so many of the bystanders,— the emphatic words of the old writ commanding the sheriff to make up a deficienc

I. In the civil law. Like for like; punishment in the same kind; the punishment of an injury by an act of the same kind, as an eye for an eye.

I. In old English law. In such a manner; so. Taliter pr Ocossum est: so it proceeded; such proceedings were had.

Talla^inm, I. I. In old English law. A share of a man's sub-