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one who has performed military service.

The terms “trademark”, “service mark”, “certification mark”, and “collective mark” have the meanings given such terms in section 45 of the Act of July 5, 1946 (commonly referred to

The term “servicemember” means a member of the uniformed services, as that term is defined in section 101(a)(5) of title 10 .

As used in this subsection, the term “service member” means any member of the United States Armed Forces and any member of the National Guard or Reserves.

The term 'service' is not confined to sales but extends to the 'movement of gas in interstate commerce' and one who engages in either the sale or the transportation of gas is perfo

Definition.—In this section, the term “service obligation” means the period of active duty or, in the case of a member of a reserve component who completed flight training in an ac

By the former law of Scotland, before an heir could regularly acquire a right to the ancestor's estate, he had to be served heir. See Bell, Diet.

No attorney or solicitor can withdraw his name, after he has once entered it on the record, without the leave of the court. And while his name continues there, the adverse party ha

The service of write, summonses, rules, etc., signifies the delivering to or leaving them with the arty to whom or with whom they ought to e delivered or left; and, when they are s

The service or a writ of error is the lodging a copy thereof for the adverse party in the office of the clerk of the court where the judgment was rendered.

“service on deck” means service in the deck department in work related to the work usually performed on board vessels by able seamen and may include service on fishing, fish proces

Every state has the undoubted right to provide for service of process upon any foreign corporations doing business therein; to require such companies to name agents upon whom servi

For purposes of this subsection, the term “service organization” means an organization the principal business of which is the performance of services.

The term “service provider” means any person that provides a material service to a covered person in connection with the offering or provision by such covered person of a consumer

The term “servicer” means the person responsible for servicing of a loan (including the person who makes or holds a loan if such person also services the loan). The term does not i

(Civil Law) A service which one estate owes to another; the right of doing something or having a privilege in one man’s estate for the benefit of the owner of another estate. See 1

the record of the service which the military man has rendered from the time of his entry into the service until his discharge.

In this section, the term “service review agency” means— (1) with respect to the Department of the Army, the Army Review Boards Agency; (2) with respect to the Department of the Na

The term “services” includes lighting, heating, cooling, electricity, office furniture, office machines and equipment, telephone and other information technology services (includin

The term “service sector access authorization” means any license, permit, order, or other authorization, issued under the authority of Federal law, that permits a foreign supplier

These are in French law the easements of English law.

The term “services of a certified registered nurse anesthetist” means anesthesia services and related care furnished by a certified registered nurse anesthetist (as defined in para

The term “service sponsor” means an organization, or other entity, that has been selected to provide a placement for a participant.

those rendered for a valuable consideration by a person covered by the act for the ultimate user thereof.

The term "Services Requirements Review Board" has the meaning given in Department of Defense Instruction 5000.74, titled "Defense Acquisition of Services" and d

The term “service station dealer” means any person— (i) who owns or operates a motor vehicle service station, filling station, garage, or similar retail establishment engaged in th

the term "services to victims of crime" includes— (A) crises intervention services; (B) providing, in an emergency, transportation to court, short-term child care service

the term "services to victims of Federal crime" means services to victims of crime with respect to Federal crime, and includes— (A) training of law enforcement personnel

The term “service technician” means any individual who uses or supervises the use of pesticides (other than a ready to use consumer products pesticide) for the purpose of providing

the term “service tier” means a category of cable service or other services provided by a cable operator and for which a separate rate is charged by the cable operator;

The term “Service unit” means an administrative entity of the Service or a tribal health program through which services are provided, directly or by contract, to eligible Indians w

the term “service with a public agency as a law enforcement officer” includes service as a law enforcement officer of the Amtrak Police Department, service as a law enforcement off

The term “servicing” means receiving any scheduled periodic payments from a borrower pursuant to the terms of any loan, including amounts for escrow accounts described in section 2

In Spanish law. A servitude. The right and use which one man has in the buildings and estates of another, to use them for the benefit of his own. Las Partidas, 3. 31. 1.

(Spanish) A servitude. See 26 Cal. 88.

1. 1 In old English law. A serjeant; a counter or pleader; a sheriff's officer; a bailiff; any ministerial officer; a vassal, or feudal tenant; a servant Servians ad clavam: serjea

A Serjeant- atmace.

Sergeant-at-law. SERVIENS DOMINI REGIS (Law Lat.) In old English law. King's Serjeant; a public officer, who acted sometimes as the sheriff's

In old English law. King's serjeant; a public officer, who acted sometimes as the sheriff's deputy, and had also judicial powers. Bract, fols. 145b, 150b, 330, 358.

A serjeant at law.

In civil law. A term applied to an estate or tenement by or in respect of which a servitude is due to another estate or tenement. See "Easement." SERVILE EST EXPILATIONIS CRIMEN; s

Same as Servient tenement.

Certain writs touching servants and their masters violating the statutes made against their abuses. Reg. Orig. 189.

The one which bears the burden of a servitude or easement. See 128 Ala. 67, 86 Am. St. Rep. 74, 29 South. 588.

The service of a writ has been held to be servile labor. Gladwin v. Lewis, 6 Conn. 49, 16 Am. Dec. 33.

The crime of plundering is servile; innocence alone is free.

Secular, every-day business. See 6 Conn. 49, Iff Am. Dec. 33.

The term “serving carrier” means a facilities-based carrier providing mobile telecommunications service to a customer outside a home service provider’s or reseller’s licensed servi

Criminal slaves in the time of Henry I. 1 Kemble, Sax. 197, (1849.)

Personal services follow the person.

2 Inst. 374; Personal services follow the person.

A judicial writ for a man distrained for semces to one, when he owes and performs them to another, for the acquittal of such services. Reg. Jur. 27.

In feudal and old English law. The duty of obedience and performance which a tenant was bound to render to his lord by reason of his fee. Spelman. See Co. Litt. 65a.

IN LEGE ANGLIAE, REGUlariter accipitur pro servitio quod per tenentes dominis suis debetur ratlone feodi sui. Service, by the law of England, means the service which is due from th

A personal service, but due only by reason of lands Which were held in fee. Bract. 1. 2, c. 16.

A personal service, but due only by reason of lands which were held in fee. Bracton, lib. 2, c. 16.

A serrlce due, not to the chief lord, but to the king.

Forinsec, foreign, or extra service; a kind of service that was due to the king, over and abave (foris) the service due to the lord.

Service is regularly taken in the law of England to mean the service which is due their lord from the tenants by reason of their fee.

Co. Litt 65. Service, by the law of England, means the service which is due from the tenants to the lords, by reason of their fee,

The ordinary service due the chief lord from his tenants.

A service to be done by feudatory tenants, who were called "liberi homines," and distinguished from vassals, as was their service, for they were not bound to any of the base servic

Knight service; military service. 2 Bl. Comm. 62.

Royal service, or the rights and prerogatives that, within a royal manor, belong to the lord of the same, which are generally reckoned to be the following, viz.: Power of judicatur

Knight-service, which see.

Service of the plow; that is, socage.

Socage, which see.

The servitude of pasfuring; the right of pasturing one's cattle on another's ground; otherwise called "jus pascendi." Inst. 2, 3, 2.

A right of driving one's cattle on a neighbor's land to water.

The servifude of a rural or country estate; a rural servitude. Inst. 2, 3, pr., and 3,

The servifude of an urban or city estate ; an urban servitude. Inst. 2, 3. 1.

A prædial servitude; a service, burden, or charge upon one estate for the banefit of another. Inst. 2, 3, 3.

The servitude of projecting; the right of building a projection from one's house in the open space belonging to one's neighbor. Dig. 8, 2, 2,

The servitude of letting in a beam; the right of inserting beams in a neighbor's wall. Inst. 2, 3, 1, 4; Dig. 8, 2, 2.

A serving-man; particularly applied to students at Oxford, upon the foundation, who are similar to sizars at Cambridge. Wharton.

Such Servants or messengers of the marshal belonging to the king's bench as vrere heretofore sent abroad with bills or writs to summon men to that court, being now called "tipstave

'[a] condition in which a person lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life'—'slavery'—'the state of being subject to a master.' " 4 "Ibid." The ju

A personal servitude imposed on land for the benefit of a person and not for the benefit of other land. See 65 Cal. 46, 2 Pac. 880.

a servitude is laid on the surface estate for the benefit of the mineral estate to the end, as the acts otherwise show, that the United States may realize, through the separate lea

personal, in Scotland, are those by which the property of a subject is burdened, in favour, not of a tenement, but of a person. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. B. 2, t. 9, s. 23. Life-rent is t

An easement; a servitude; slavery; bondage.

Same as Servitus itineris.

The servitude of not building any higher than one neighbor.

The servifude of leading water; the right of leading water to one's own premises through another's land. Inst. 2, 3, pr.

Same as Aqua ductus.

The servitude of leading off water; the right of leading off the water from one's own onto another's ground. Dig. 8, 3, 29.

Same as Aquae haustus.

The servifude or right of draining water from another's spring or well. Inst. 2, 3, 2. —. Servitus cloacae mittendæ. The servitude or right of having a sewer through the house or g

The right of sewering through a neighbor's land.

Slavery is an institution by the law of nations, by which a man is subjected to the dominion of another, contrary to nature. Inst. 1, 3, 2; Co. Litt 116.

The right to convey smoke through a neighbor's chimney or over his land.

The right to pass over on horseback or by carriage.

The right to have the light to a certain part of one’s premises unobstructed.

A servitude not to obstruct light.

A servitude not to obstruct one's prospect, i. e., not to intercept the view from one's house. Dig. 8, 2, 15.

It is not the nature of a servitude that one should do something, but that he should suffer something or should not do it.

The servitude of support for a neighbor's building.

The right to pasture on a neighbor’s land.

The right to drive cattle to water on a neighbor’s land.

Urban servitude, which see.