Law Dictionary

“sailing school instructor” means an individual who is on board a sailing school vessel to provide sailing instruction, but does not include an operator or crewmember who is among

“sailing school student” means an individual who is on board a sailing school vessel to receive sailing instruction. / Definitions.—In this section, the terms “sailing school instr

“sailing school vessel” means a vessel— (A) that is less than 500 gross tons as measured under section 14502 of this title , or an alternate tonnage measured under section 14302 of

In both cases, the allied armies were to be supplied, not by sales made directly to their agents, (for this is not required by either,) but by carrying supplies to the Peninsula, w

all the judges who concurred in those decisions were of opinion, that the mere sailing under an enemy's license, without regard to the object of the voyage, or the port of destinat

The term “sailing vessel” means any vessel under sail provided that propelling machinery, if fitted, is not being used;

the general rule is, for a sailing vessel, meeting a steamer, to keep her course, while the steamer takes the necessary measures to avoid a collision. And though this rule should n

Seamen; mariners. See "Seaman."

The welfare of the people is the supreme law. Bac. Max. reg. 12; Broom, Max. 1-10; Montesq. Esprit des Lois, lib. 26, c. 23; 13 Coke, 139.

COURT of. A writ of error formerly lay from the sheriff's courts in the city of London to the court of hustings, before the mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, and thence to justices ap

In old English law. Holy things; gospels on which oaths were taken.

An elaborate form of noncommunistic socialism. It is a scheme which does not contemplate an equal, but an unequal, division of the produce. It does not propose that all should be o

A tip-staff or sergeant-at-arms. Cowell; Cunningham. SAISI E-AR R £t. In French Law. An attachment of property in the hands of a third person.

An oath.

Fr. In French law. A judicial seizure or sequestration of property, of which there are several varieties. See infra. —Saisie-arret. An attachment of property in the possession of a

In French law. An attachment of property in the possession of a third person.

In French law. A writ of execution by which the creditor places under the custody of the law the movables of his debtor, which are liable to seizure, in order that out of them he m

A writ resembling that of fieri facia; defined as that species of execution by which a creditor places under the hand of justice (custody of the law) his debtor's movable property

In French law. A permission given by the proper judicial officer Inhabits. Dalloz. It has the effect of an attachment of property, which is applied to the payment of the debt due.

In French Law. A conservatory act of execution, by which the owner or principal lessor of a house or farm causes the furniture of the house or farm leased, and on which he has a li

In French law. A conservatory act of execution, by which the owner or principal lessor of a house or farm causes the furniture of the house or farm leased, and on which he has a li

In French law. A writ by which the creditor puts in the custody of the law the immovables of his debtor; that out of the proceeds of their sale he may be paid his demand. SAISINA (

The proceeding by which a creditor places under the hand of justice (custody of the law) the immovable property of his debtor, in order that the same may be sold, and that he may o

In French Law. A writ by which the creditor puts in the custody of the law the immovables of his debtor, that out of the proceeds of their sale he may be paid his demand.

Seisin.

res inter alios care, t It has often been determined tween other parties do not prejudice. Ssepenumero ubi proprietas yerborum amittitur, L Oftentimes where the to [where the atten

In old EJngliah law. A lord's right of amercing his tenants in his court. Kielw. 145. Acquittance of suit at county courts and hundred courts. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47, § 7.,

A tax imposed in England and France, in 1188, by Pope Innocent III., to raise a fund for the crusade undertaken by Richard I., of England, and Philip Augustus, of France, against S

A tax to raise funds for the crusade of Richard I against Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt.

A tax imposed in England and France, in 1188, by Pope Innocent III., to raise a fund for the crusade undertaken by Richard I. of England and Philip Augustus of France, against Sala

Wages; allowance for provisions.

A fixed compensation paid at stated times. See 54 Ala. 47.

the term “salary or other compensation” includes any deferred compensation or pension payments, any payments for expenses for which the recipient is not obligated to itemize, and a

The term “salary reduction contribution” means, with respect to a cafeteria plan, any amount which is contributed to the plan at the election of the employee and which is not inclu

any transfer of title or possession of tangible personal property for consideration.

A sale whereof the proceeds are to be reinvested in another estate of the same character and to be settled to the same uses. See 22 Miss. 176.

When goods are sent from a manufacturer or wholesale dealer to a retail trader, in the hope that he may purchase them, with the understanding that what he may choose to take he sha

See Auction .

any sale of tangible personal property and any sale of or charge made for labor and services rendered in respect to real or personal property, which is not a sale at retail; '(f) T

There is nothing upon the face of the contract from which it can be satisfactorily inferred that it was intended to be a sale by the acre. The language of the contract on the part

in order to sustain such a sale, it must be made to appear, first, that the price paid approximates reasonably near to a fair and adequate consideration for the thing purchased; an

A sale made by a party who is in possession of a tract of public land with an intent thereafter to enter it as a homestead is equivalent to a relinquishment of his right to enter,

To give validity to such a sale by a mortgagor it must be shown that the conduct of the mortgagee was, in all things, fair and frank, and that he paid for the property what it was

if the nature or situation of the property is such that it cannot be conveniently examined in bulk, he has a right, and it is for the convenience of trade that he should be permitt

This sale having been made by a trustee to himself, must have been set aside and annulled on the application of the cestui que trust, but no such application being made, it cannot

the term “sale date” means the date on which the initial public offering is closed;

A judicial sale, in the nature of an execution, of property of a decedent to pay his debts. See 3 Watts (Pa.), 490.

The sale of a bulk of personal property or land, without any estimate of quantity. See 83 Va. 1, 1 S. E. 387.

A memorandum of the subject and terms of a sale, given by a broker or factor to the seller, who bailed him the goods for that purpose, and to the buyer, who dealt with him. Also ca

A memorandum given by a broker to a seller or buyer of goods, stating the fact that certain goods have been sold by him on account of a perso;n called the "seller" to another perso

“sale”, “sale of a cooperative unit” or “sale of a condominium unit” means any obligation or arrangement for consideration for conveyance to a purchaser of a cooperative or condomi

“sale”, “sale of a cooperative unit” or “sale of a condominium unit” means any obligation or arrangement for consideration for conveyance to a purchaser of a cooperative or condomi

A promise to return the money borrowed, is, indeed, one among the ordinary indications of a loan... But he who sells his lands or stock, and takes a note in payment, holds in his h

wherever a sale is made of property not present, but at a remote distance, which the seller knows the purchaser has never seen, but which he buys upon the representation of the sel

it is equally well settled that if the contract is such as to clearly express the intention of the parties that the builder shall sell and the purchaser shall buy the ship before i

A species of conditional sale, which is to become absolute only in case the buyer, on trini, approves or is satisfied with the article sold. The approval, however, need not be expr

A sale of property accompanied by delivery of possession, but where payment of the price is deferred to a future day.

the sale on execution transfers the property of the thing to the purchaser as completely as if the owner had sold it himself; but it transfers only the rights of the debtor, such a

A sale wherein the buyer is to try the article before the purchase shall take full effect. See 38 W. Va. 312, 45 Am. St. Rep. 859, 18 S. E. 591.

all types of sales or dispositions.' S.Rep.

The term “sale or distribution” includes sampling or any other distribution not for sale. / The term “sale or distribution” includes sampling or any other distribution not for sale

Payment and discharge of a bond is neither sale nor exchange within the commonly accepted meaning of the words.

A contract whereby title passes to the buyer subject to his option to retain it or return it to the seller. See 150 U. S. 312, 37 L. Ed. 1093, 14 Sup. Ct. Rep. 99.

when he sells his entire stock to one or more persons. This is an unusual occurrence, out of the ordinary mode of transacting such a business, is prima facie evidence of fraud, and

(Roman Law) A sale of land in bulk. See 4?6 La. Ann. 656, 15 South. 531.

as it is the sale that passes the title, the vendee must take it from the day of the sale. The evidence may be procured, therefore, before or after suit brought; or before or after

the 'sales' referred to in the statute include forced sales such as have sufficed, under long accepted income tax practice, to establish a deductible loss in the case of non-capita

An expression denoting an agreement to permit the return of the goods with credit therefor, if not sold by the buyer. See 17 Mont. 389, 43 Pac. 180.

“Sales load” means the difference between the price of a security to the public and that portion of the proceeds from its sale which is received and invested or held for investment

One who solicited orders for weather strips, and superintended the placing thereof by workmen acting under his direction, was held a salesman within the bankrupt act, although the

The term “sales or use tax” means any tax levied on, with respect to, or measured by, sales, receipts from sales, purchases, storage, or use of tangible personal property, except a

even when such payments were made for actual sales promotional services, they were a form of indirect price discrimination because the recipient of the allowances could shift part

The term “sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service costs” means the costs related to sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service for the following: (A) Sales and

a tax on the freedom of purchase

“Sales territory” means a country or group of countries to which a defense article or defense service is authorized to be reexported.

In old English law. A headpiece; a steel cap or morion. Cowell.

On what is called a "sale with nil faults," unless the seller fraudulently and inconsistently represents the article sold to be fanitless, or contrives to conceal any fault from th

Acourtin England, still existing, having civil jurisdiction. It is an inferior court of record. SALIC or SALIQUE LAW. The name of a code of laws, so called from the Salians, a peop

An inferior and local court of record having jnrisdiction in personui actions where the debt or damage sought to be recovered does not exceed £50, if the cause of action arise with

I. A willow wood; an osier bed. <

The earliest barbarian code, in use by a German tribe in the 5th century.

any point on the low-water line, so situated that there is some area within three geographical miles seaward from such point that is more than three geographical miles from all oth

Land having salt deposa limited grant of them was made. Eighteen states have received no such grant; Montello Salt Co. v. Utah, 221 U. S. 452, 31 Sup. Ct. 706, 55 L. Ed. 810, Ann.

or Salian law; the law of the Salians or Salian Franks — the oldest of the baruarian codes, having been framed, it is said, about 433. Lex scripta: written law; law deriving its fo

Same as Salic law.

The term &quot;Salish Sea&quot; means the network of coastal waterways on the west coast of North America that includes the Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia, and the Strait of Ju

A sale-man, found in the Salic Law in the fifth century, who was a third person called in to complete the transfer of property. 12 Harv. L. Rev. 445, Law in Science, etc., by O. W.

The term “salmon” means any anadromous species of the family Salmonidae and Genus Oncorhynchus, commonly known as Pacific salmon. / “salmon” means all species of salmon which migra

The term “salmon or steelhead resource” means any stock of salmon or steelhead.

December 6, 1864; died May 7, 1873. Edwin M. Stanton, December 20, 1869; died December 24, 1869, before his commission took effect William Strong, February 18, 1870; retired Decemb

The term “Salmon Recovery Plans” means the recovery plans for salmon and steelhead species approved by the Secretary of the Interior under section 4(f) of the Endangered Species Ac

The term does not necessarily jmply a place for the sale of intoxicants. 36 Tex. 364. But see 105 Mass. 40.

This expression has a definite meaning, namely, a retaller of cigars, liquors, etc. Cahlll v. Campbell, 105 Mass. 40.

A custom in the city of London called "granage," formerly payable to the lord mayor, etc., for salt brought to the port of London, being the twentieth part. Wharton.

See Lex, Salus populi, etc.

Meadows overflowed by the sea at unusually high tides. See 34 Conn. 421.

The term “Salton Sea” means the inland body of water located in Riverside and Imperial Counties which serves as a drainage reservoir for water from precipitation, natural runoff, i

One penny paid at the feast day of St. Martin, by the tenants of some manors, as a commutation for the service of carrying their lord's salt from market to his larder. Par. Ant., 4

The term “saltwater flush” means— (I) (aa) the addition of as much midocean water into each empty ballast tank of a vessel as is safe for the vessel and crew; and (bb) the mixing o

Health; safety; welfare.