Law Dictionary

The sense of words is to be taken from the occasion of speaking them; and discourses are always to be interpreted according to the subject-matter. 4 Coke, 13b. See 2 Kent, Comm. 55

1; RESCISSION; WiLL, 1; Wittingly. Compare NosciTUR; Scire. 2. Sexual bodily connection: carnal knowledge.' " Carnally knew " is the technical phrase used in charging rape, 3. u.

The only sentence known to the law is the sentence or judgment entered upon the records of the court.

Reading this provision of the statute to authorize deportation only where an alien having committed a crime involving moral turpitude and having been convicted and sentenced, once

A custom in the English courts, now disused, of entering sentence of death on the record which is not intended to be pronounced. The effect was the same as If it had been pronounce

A sentence; a judgment; meaning; sense.

A judgment rendered by one not a judge ought to harm no one.

A sentence pronounced by one who is not a judge should not harm any one. Fleta, 1. 6, C. 6, § 7.

A decision against marriage never passes into a thing adjudged.

Ellesm. Post. N. 55. Judgment creates right, and what is adjudicated is taken for truth.

ET LEGIS INterpretatio legls vim obtlnet. The sentence makes the law, and the interpretation has the force of law.

ET RES JUDIcata pro veritate acclpitur. Judgment creates the right, and what is adjudicated is taken for truth. EUesmere, Postn. 55. SENTENTIA INTERLOCUTORIA REVOcari potest, defln

A judgment makes law, for the interpretation of the law has the force of law.

A judgment makes law, and a thing adjudged is received as the truth.

An interlocutory judgment can be revoked, a final one cannot.

A judgment is not rendered concerning matters which are not clear.

7 Coke, 43. A sentence against marriage never becomes a matter finally adjudged, i, e„ res judicata.

Sentinel landscape.—The term "sentinel landscape" means a landscape-scale area encompassing— (A) one or more military installations or state-owned National Guard installa

A writ which lay for the owner of a mill against the inhabitants of a place where such mill is situated, for not doing suit to the plaintiff's mill; that is, for not having their c

Arbitration clauses as a matter of federal law are 'separable' from the contracts in which they are embedded, and where no claim is made that fraud was directed to the arbitration

the unobjectionable part of a statute cannot be held separable unless it appears that, 'standing alone, legal effect can be given to it and that the Legislature intended the provis

an action brought in a State court against two defendants jointly, in which the plaintiff states a case of joint liability arising out of the concurrent negligence of the defendant

For purposes of this Act, the term "separable element" means a portion of a project— / The term "separable element" has the meaning provided by section 2213(f)

(L. Lat.) In old English law. Several; a several or separate share or portion. A separate property. SEPARALITER (Lat. separately). A word sometimes used in indictments to show that

Lat Separately. Used in indictments to indicate that two or more defendants were charged separately, and not jointly, with the commission of the offense in question. State v. Edwar

Individual; distinct; particular ; disconnected. Generally used in law as opposed to "joint," though the more usual antithesis of the latter term is "several." Either of these word

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

In this subparagraph, the term "separate account" means an account that— (I) is maintained in the United States by a new commercial enterprise or job creating entity at a

A married woman's acknowledgment of a deed, taken apart and privately from her husband.

An action is so called which each of several persons must bring when they are denied the privilege of joining in one suit. See Joinder.

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “separate affiliated group” means, with respect to any corporation, the affiliated group which would be determined under section 1504(a) if

The general government, and the States, although both exist within the same territorial limits, are separate and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each

For the purpose of subsection (a)(3), the term “separate and independent” means that— (1) the members of the postsecondary education governing body of the accrediting agency or ass

where there is a single wrong to plaintiff, for which relief is sought, arising from an interlocked series of transactions, there is no separate and independent claim or cause of a

Under that doctrine, equality of treatment is accorded when the races are provided substantially equal facilities, even though these facilities be separate.

The new corporation was a separate legal entity, and, whatever may have been the motives leading to its creation, it can only be regarded as such for the purposes of legal proceedi

The term “separated affiliate” means a corporation under common ownership or control with a Bell operating company that does not own or control a Bell operating company and is not

A demise in a declaration in ejectment used to be termed a "separate denjise" when made by the lessor separately or individually, as distinguished from a demise made jointly by two

The term “separated entity” means a privatized entity to whom a portion of the assets owned by INTELSAT or Inmarsat are transferred prior to full privatization of INTELSAT or Inmar

The rule is that she may acquire a separate domicil whenever it is necessary or proper that she should do so. The right springs from the necessity for its exercise, and endures as

in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

As a general rule a corporation and its stockholders are deemed separate entities and this is true in respect of tax problems. Of course, the rule is subject to the qualification t

No particular phraseology is necessary to create the provision for a feme covert technically designated in the law as her separate estate. As in all other cases of instruments to b

See "Separate Acknowledgment."

There must be a separate gate marked and set apart from other gates; the work done by the men who use the gate must be unrelated to the normal operations of the employer and the wo

The legality of separate gate picketing depended upon the type of work being done by the employees who used that gate; if the duties of those employees were connected with the norm

A verdict upon separate issues in favor of either party. See 53 Ky. 21.

The term "separate improvement" means each improvement added during the 36–month period ending on the last day of any taxable year to the capital account for the property

The term “separate limitation income” means, with respect to any income category, the taxable income from sources outside the United States, separately computed for such category.

The term “separate limitation loss” means, with respect to any income category, the loss from such category determined under the principles of section 907(c)(4)(B).

At the election of the employer and with the consent of the Secretary, this paragraph may be applied separately with respect to each separate line of business of the employer. For

The term “separately computed taxable income” means the separate taxable income of the subsidiary for the taxable year determined— (i) by taking into account gains and losses from

The maintenance of a woman by her husband on an agreement to live separately. An allowance made by a husband to his vnle for her separate support and maintenance. Bouvier. See 2 Ro

An estate held, both in its use and in its title for the exclusive benefit of either husband or wife. See 76 Am. Dec. 492, note.

The term "separate spaces" means areas within a commercial building that are leased or otherwise occupied by a tenant or other occupant for a period of time pursuant to t

so long as that purpose is the equivalent of business activity or is followed by the carrying on of business by the corporation, the corporation remains a separate taxable entity

See Joinder.

The order granting separate trials made separate causes, and therefore each was independent of the other.

In old conveyancing. Severally. A word which made a several covenant. 5 Coke, 23a.

A cessation of cohabitation of husband and wife by mutual agreement.

A partial dissolution of the marriage relation. By the ecclesiastical or canon law of England, which had exclusive jurisdiction over marriage and divorce, marriage was regarded as

In Louisiana probate law. The creditors of the succession may demand, in every case and against every creditor of the heir, a separation of the property of the succession from that

It may be stated then, as a general rule inherent in the American constitutional system, that, unless otherwise expressly provided or incidental to the powers conferred, the Legisl

In England, where a husband is convicted of an aggravated assault upon his wife, the court or magistrate may order that the wife shall be no longer bound to cohabit with him. Such

Seceders from the Church of England. They, like Quakers, solemnly affirm, instead of taking the usual oath, before they give evidence. See 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 82,

Lat. In old conveyancing. Severally. A word which made a several covenant 5 Coke, 23a.

Lat. In old English law. A hedge or inclosure. The inclosure of a trench or canal. Dig. 43, 21, 4.

The term “September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks” means the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, in New York City, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentago

An act which fixed the extreme duration of a Parliament at seven years. See Parliamentary Act.

In ecclesiastical law. The third Sunday bsfore Quadragesima Sunday, being about the seventieth day before Easter.

An inclosure; any place paled in. Cowell.

Lat. In Roman law. A division of the as, containing seven unciæ or duodecimal parts; the proportion of seven-twelfths. Tayl. Civll Law, 492.

The place where a corpse is buried. The violation of sepulchres is a misdemeanor at common law.

An offering to the priest for the burial of a dead body. SEQUAMUR VESTIGIA PATRUM NOStrorum. Let us follow the footsteps of our fathers. Jenk. Cent. Cas.

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

Let us follow in the footsteps of our fathers.

A writ that lay where a summons ad warrantizandum was awarded, and the sheriff returned that he had nothing whereby he might be summoned, then issued an alias and a pluries, and if

A suit; a process; a prosecution.

The process and depending issue of a cause for trial. Cowell. SEQUELA CURIA*. Suit of court Cowell.

Suit of court. Cowell. See "Suit,"

The family retinue and appurtenances to the goods and chattels of villeins, which were at the absolute disposal of the lord. Par. Ant. 216.

Small allowances of meal or manufactured victuals made to the servants at a mill where com was ground, by tenure, in Scotland. See "Thirlage."

is a writ which is- by construction of law, passcs in the sues for the purpose of removing a premises, may by the habendum be rigoner in order to prosecute. 3 controlled; in which

In Civil and Ecclesiastical Law. To renounce. Example: When a widow comes into court and disclaims having anything to do or to intermeddle with her deceased husband's estate, she i

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

A writ issued for the purpose of enforcing a judgment against a beneficed clergyman when a fi. fa. has been issued and returned Tiulla bona. It commands the bishop of the diocese t

The separating or setting aside of a thing in controversy, from the possession of both the parties that contend for it; it is twofold — voluntary, done by consent of all parties; a

no sequestration devests the property in the thing sequestered; and, consequently, Brailsford, at the peace, and indeed, throughout the war, was the real owner of the debt.

The term “sequestration formation” means a deep saline formation, unmineable coal seam, or oil or gas reservoir that is capable of accommodating a volume of industrial carbon dioxi

One to whom a sequestration is made, A depositary of this kind cannot exonerate himself from the care of the thing sequestered in his hands, unless for some cause rendering it indi

In English ecclesiastical law. A judicial writ for the discharging a sequestration of the profits of a church benefice, granted by the bishop at the sovereign's command, thereby to

2 Inst. 454. Power should follow justice, not precode it

non praecedere. Power should follow justice, not precede it. 2 Inst. 454.

Power ought to follow justice, not to precede it. Serf. One who was bound to the soil of his birth-place to perform menial service, under feudal tenure.

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

In feudal law. A term applied to a class of persons who were bound to perform very onerous duties towards others. Poth. des Personnes, pt. 1, tit. 1, a. 6, § 4. There is this essen

Same as Serjeant. Sergeant-at-arms. An officer of a legislature appointed to enforce its rules and orders of procedure. Serial association. A building and loan association whose st

“Sergeant at Arms” means the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the United States Senate; and / “Sergeant at Arms” means the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the United States Se

See Serjeant.

Bonds maturing in different classes or series.