Law Dictionary

1. 1. In old Soots law. Disseisin; dispossession.

In Scotch practice. A stay or suspension of proceedings, an order for a stay of proceedings. Bell, Diet.

In Scots law. To stay proceedings.

“brother” and “sister” mean one who at the time of the death of the employee is under 18 years of age or over that age and incapable of self-support, and include stepbrothers and s

Judgments recovered in one state of the Union, when proved in the courts of another, differ from the judgments recovered in a foreign country in no other respect than that of not b

LITErae patentes vacuae sunt. If the suggestion of a patent is false, the patent itself is void. 10 Coke, 113, SI TE FECERIT SECURUM (Lat. it he make you secure). Words which occur

If the suggestion is not true, the letters patent are void.

10 Coke, 113. If the suggestion be not true, the letters patent are void.

To preside as a judge.

It was not a mere quitting of work and statement of grievances in the exercise of pressure recognized as lawful. It was an illegal seizure of the buildings in order to prevent thei

The term “site” has the meaning set forth in Article 18b. of the Additional Protocol.

“site characterization” means a process for monitoring and evaluating the nature and extent of sediment contamination in accordance with the Environmental Protection Agency's guida

The term "site connectivity infrastructure" means localized driveways and access roads to a facility as well as hookups to the new facility for drinking water, waste wate

The term “sited compact region” means a compact region in which there is located one of the regional disposal facilities at Barnwell, in the State of South Carolina; Richland, in t

The term “site development” means necessary off-site improvements, such as the construction of sewer and water connections, construction of access roads, and appropriate site resto

If he shall have made you secure.

The term “site limitation” means, when used with respect to any powerplant, any specific physical limitation associated with a particular site which relates to the use of coal or o

Subject to clause (iv), in this paragraph, the term “site neutral payment rate” means the lower of— (I) the IPPS comparable per diem amount determined under paragraph (d)(4) of sec

In this section, the term “site profile” means an exposure assessment of a facility that identifies the toxic substances or processes that were commonly used in each building or pr

The high constable o{ a hundred.

See In bank .

See In camera .

The term "siting authority" means a State, local, or Tribal governmental entity with authority to make a final determination regarding the siting, permitting, or regulato

The term “siting research” means activities, including borings, surface excavations, shaft excavations, subsurface lateral excavations and borings, and in situ testing, to determin

(Spanish) A land measure. See 3 Ariz. 100, 21 Pac. 177.

Under such circumstances, land was not estimated by acres or arpens. A square league, or 'sitio de ganado mayor,' appears to have been the only unit in estimating the superficies o

(Spanish and Mexican) A section or township in the surveys of the U. S. See 3 Ariz. 100, 21 Pac. 177.

For purposes of this section, the term “sitters” means individuals who furnish personal attendance, companionship, or household care services to children or to individuals who are

See In bank .

Term of court. See 1 Or. 308.

In practice. The holding of a court, with full form, and before all the judges; as a sitting in banc. 3 Steph. Comm. 423 The holding of a court of nisi prius by one or more of the

Sittings in banc after term were held by authority of St. 1 & 2 Vict. e. 32. The courts were at liberty to transact business at their sittings as in term time, but the custom was t

or BANC. The sittings which the respective superior courts of common law hold during every term for the purpose of hearing and determining the various matters of law argued before

See "Chambers." SITUS (Lat.) Situation; location. 5 Pet. (U. S.) 524. Real estate has always a fixed sites, while personal estate has no such fixed situs; the law rei sitae regulat

The sessions of a court, with the full bench present, for the purpose of determining matters of law argued before them.

To have a situs (q. v.), a place or position. Situated. In the United States, in such expressions as " all that tract of land situated," etc., has been more commonly used than " si

In this section, the term "situational awareness" means information gathered from a variety of sources that, when communicated to emergency managers, decision makers, and

[N]otes, bonds, and mortgages may acquire a situs at a place other than the domicile of the owner, and be there reached by the taxing authority.

Situs of an intangible is fictional but control over parties whose judicially coerced action can make effective rights created by the chose in action enables the court with such co

It is plain that bills and notes, whatever they may be called, come very near to identification with the contract that they embody. An indorsement of the paper carries the contract

The debt is where the bond is, being upon a specialty, but debt upon contract follows the person of the debtor; and this difference has been oftentimes agreed... debts due the test

bank deposits are mere credits, and for purposes of ad valorem taxation have situs at the domicile of the creditor only; the same general rule applies to negotiable bonds and notes

It is the fundamental contention of plaintiff in error that the personal estate of an intestate decedent is a legal unit, having its situs at the owner's domicil; that the title to

Personal property consisting of bonds, mortgages, and debts generally has no situs independent of the domicile of the owner, and certainly can have none where the instruments const

The ancient maxim which assigns to tangibles, as well as intangibles, the situs of the owner for purposes of taxation, has its foundation in the protection which the owner receives

We are satisfied that the State of California had no jurisdiction over these vessels for the purpose of taxation; they were not, properly, abiding within its limits, so as to becom

Without the judgment of the court Fleta, lib. 2, c 47, J 13.

Without authority of a judge. 2 Kames, Eq. 115.

Without this, that. A technical phrase in old pleading, of the same import with the phrase "absque hoo quod,"

Without stint or limit. A term applied to common. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 19, § 8.

Without issue. Used in genealogical tables, and often abbreviated into p."

SIVE pars habet regressum emptor in vendltorem. The purchaser who has beeft evicted in whole or in part has an action against the vendor. Dig. 21. 2. 1; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London

Whether evicted altogether or partly, the vendee has his remedy against the vendor.

sive pars, habet regressum emptor in venditorem, I. The purchaser who has been evicted in whole or in part has an action against the vendor.

siwyte, I. fr. In old English law. Suit.

THE. The acts passed in 1819, for the pacification of England, are so called. They, in effect, prohibited the traming of persons to arms; authorized general searches and seizure of

LAW OF THE. A celebrated act entitled “An act for abolishing diversity of opinion,’’ 31 Hen. VIII. c. 14; enforcing conformity under the severest penalties on six of the strongest

A celebrated case holding that refusal to pay for refreshment at a public tavern would not render a patron liable in an action of trespass as for an unlawful entry, because he had

The six clerks of the English Court of Chancery.

Officers who received and filed all proceedings, signed of Bce copies, attended court to read the pleadings, etc. Abolished by 5 Vict. c. 5. 3 Bl. Comm. 443*; Spence, Eq. Jur.; Fle

In English law. A liquor license, contuining a condition that the premises in respect of which the license is granted shall be closed during the whole of Sunday, granted nnder sect

Servants of the same nature as rodknlghts. Anc. Inst. Eng.

The term “sixteen contiguous Western States” means the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon

Section 2 of the Hours of Service Act (March, 1907) provides that it shall be unlawful for any common carrier to require or permit any employe to be or remain on duty for a longer

It is clear on the face of this text that it does not purport to confer power to levy income taxes in a generic sense,—an authority already possessed and never questioned,—or to li

The term "size category" means with respect to a motor vehicle identified in subsection (c)(1)(A)— (A) 85 cubic feet or less of passenger and luggage interior volume; (B)

the phrase 'sizes and weight' in § 225, when safety is concerned, is not to be narrowly limited to the overall length, width and height of the loaded cars and to their gross weight

In the civil law. Ordinary judices; the common jucices appointed to try causes, and who, according to Blackstone, determined only questions of fact. 3 Bl. Comm. 315.

L. frigus, shudder from fear,

Com. 299. • [Walter v. Smith, 5 B. & Aid. 167 (1822), Best, J. ' Taylor v. The Marcella, 1 Woods, 304(1873;; 17 Barb. illegal act or negligence in the owner of lands, tenements, or

' [Bu Uard v. Eandall, 1 Gray, 606 (1854), Shaw, C. J.; 10 Oreg. 35., » 2 Daniel, Neg. Inst. § 1506 (1879): 28Gratt. 170. « See Merchants' Nat. Bank v. State Nat. Bank, 10 Wall. 64

In commercial law. A blank paper, properly stamped, in those countries where stamps are required, with the name of a person signed at the bottom. In such case, the person signing t

A skiagraph is not a picture of the object or substance itself, but of the shadow merely, which is cast by such object or substance. 149 111. App. 445.

The rulings, interpretations and opinions of the Administrator under this Act, while not controlling upon the courts by reason of their authority, do constitute a body of experienc

The art of doing a thing as it ought to be done. Every person w'ho purports to have skill in a business, and undertakes for hire to perform it, is bound to do it with ordinary skil

The term “skilled nursing facility” has the meaning given such term in section 1819(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i–3(a)). / In this subchapter, the term “skilled nu

Subject to clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv), the term “skilled nursing facility market basket percentage” means, for a fiscal year or other annual period and as calculated by the Secr

The term “skilled technical personnel” means— (A) journey- and apprentice-level workers who are enrolled in, or have completed, a federally-recognized or State-recognized apprentic

The term "skilled technical work" means an occupation that requires a high level of knowledge in a technical domain and does not require a bachelor's degree for entry.

The term “skilled technical workforce” has the meaning given the term in section 4(b)(3) of the Innovations in Mentoring, Training, and Apprenticeships Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1862p note;

Witnesses who are allowed to give evidence on matters of opinion and abstract fact.

The term “skin-test diagnostic product”— (A) means a product— (i) for prick, scratch, intradermal, or subcutaneous administration; (ii) expected to produce a limited, local reactio

For purposes of this chapter, the term “skip person” means— (1) a natural person assigned to a generation which is 2 or more generations below the generation assignment of the tran

An abbreviation for "session [or statute] laws."

In old records. A long, flat, and narrow piece or strip of ground. Parochi Antiq. 465.

See "Letters of Slains."

The sense in which words are received by the world, is the sense which Courts of Justice ought to ascribe to them, on the trial of actions for slander. Slander imports an injury; a

A calumniator who maliciously and without reason imputes a crime or fault to another, of which he is innocent. For this offense, when the slander is merely verbal, the remedy is an

In torts. A statement tending to cut down the extent of title. See 60 Cal. 160. An action for slander of title is not properly an action for words spoken, or for libel written and

The term “slaughter data” means all of the applicable data for all swine slaughtered by a packer during the applicable reporting period, regardless of when the price of the swine w

See Condition; Nuisance; Police, 3. Slaughter-House Cases. See Police, 3; Servitude, 1; State, 3 (2).

Cases bearing on the interpretation of the fourteenth amendment to the U. S. Constitution. See 16 Wall. (U. S.) 36, 21 L. Ed. 394.

One over whose life, liberty, and property another has unlimited control. The jus vitae et necis is included in pure or absolute slavery. Such a power has no foundation in natural

It would be a singular and a very extraordinary provision that a naval officer, or the collector of a tax, should be made the sole judge of the right of one individual to liberty,

something less than "involuntary servitude," I see no basis for reading the statute more narrowly than written.

The right of the plaintiff to liberty was supposed by the court to depend on the question of his being purchased in fact by a citizen of Illinois, and on his being carried to Illin

Slavery is the property which one man has in the labour of another, and the right to the custody and such limited use of the person of that other, as the particular laws allow.

The things denounced are slavery and involuntary servitude, and Congress is given power to enforce that denunciation. All understand by these terms a condition of enforced compulso

The traffic in slaves, or the buying and selling of slaves for profit. It is either foreign or domestic. The former is when the trade includes transportation from a foreign state;

When not used in relation to bat-