Scintilla

I. A spark; a remaining particle; the least particle. Scintilla juris: a spark of right; a remaining particle of right or inter-est; portion of the fee-simple of an estate, supposed to remain in feoffees to uses, to serve and support contingent uses when they came into being. ir'icire, I. To know; to be aware of. Scire debes cnm quo contrahis: you ought to know with vehom you contract or bargain. Scire facias: cause you to know; a judicial writ, founded on a record, and requiring the person against whom it is brought to show cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record, or why the record should not be annulled. Scire feci: I have caused to know; the return to a writ of scire facias. Scire proprie est rem ratione et per causam cognoscere: to know properly is to In the civil law. Scire leges, non hoc est verba earum tenere, sed Tim ac potestatem: to know the laws is not to observe their mere words, but their force and power; [that is, the essential meaning in which their ef Soacy resides].