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the term “solicitation of a municipal entity or obligated person” means a direct or indirect communication with a municipal entity or obligated person made by a person, for direct

The asking a person to commit adultery or fornication. This, of itself, is not an indictable of- Connecticut. 7 Conn. 267. In England, the bare solicitation of chastity is punished

the Sherman Act does not prohibit two or more persons from associating together in an attempt to persuade the legislature or the executive to take particular action with respect to

a tax imposed upon the solicitation of interstate business is a tax upon interstate commerce itself

A person whose business is to be employed in the care and management of suits depending in courts of chancery. A solicitor, like an attorney, will be required to act with perfect g

In English law. A law officer of the crown, appointed by patent during the royal pleasure, and who assists the attorney general in managing the law business of the crown. Selden, 1

The solicitors before the supreme courts, in Scotland, are a body of solicitors entitled to practice in the court of session, etc. Their charter of incorporation bears date August

The title of one of the officers of the United States, created by Act May 29, 1830 (4 U. S. St. at Large, 414), which prescribed his duties and his rights. His powers and duties as

= Hallet V. Bassett, 100 Mass. 170-71 (1868), cases, Colt, J.; Guier v. O'Daniel, 1 Am. Lead. Cas. 747-50, cases. ' Ennis v. Smith (Kosciusko's Case), 14 How. 483 (1853). •■Newton

An officer of the English court of chancery, who is appointed in certain cas€s guardian ad litem.

A term of civil-law origin, signifying that the right or interest spoken of is joint or common. A "solidary obligation" corresponds to a "joint and several" obligation in the commo

In the law of Louisiana, one which binds each of the obligors for the whole debt, as distinguished from a "joint" obligation, which binds the parties each for his separate proporti

See "In Solidum." SOLIDUM (Lat.) In the civil law. A whole; an entire or undivided thing. See "In Solidum." SOLINUM (Law Lat.) In old English law. Two plough lands, and somewhat le

Lat. In the civil law. A whole; an entire or undivided thing.

A coin equal to 13s. 4d. of the present standard. 4 Steph. i Comm. 119m Originally the "solidus" was a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire, but In medieval times the term was applied

garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator ash, incinerator residue, street cleanings, municipal and industrial sludges, solid commercial and solid industrial waste, and animal waste oth

The term “solid waste incineration unit” means a distinct operating unit of any facility which combusts any solid waste material from commercial or industrial establishments or the

The term “solid waste management” means the systematic administration of activities which provide for the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processi

The term “solid waste management facility” includes— (A) any resource recovery system or component thereof, (B) any system, program, or facility for resource conservation, and (C)

The terms “solid waste planning”, “solid waste management”, and “comprehensive planning” include planning or management respecting resource recovery and resource conservation.

The term “solid waste rail transfer facility”— (i) means the portion of a facility owned or operated by or on behalf of a rail carrier (as defined in section 10102 of this title )

In old English law. Two plow-lands, and somewhat less than a half. Co. Litt 5a.

In a general sense, the separate confinement of a prisoner, with only occasional access of any other person, and that only at the discretion of the jailer; in a stricter sense, the

The punishment of separate confinement has been adopted in renee) vania with complete success. Vide Penitentiary.

2. In the civil law. Payment; the satisfaction or discharge of an obligation in any mode. Solutio indebiti: payment of what is not due; payment by mistake, of money not due; a cont

I In Scots law. Purged. In the civil law. Loosed; set at liberty.

The term “solo applicant” means an entity that is an eligible entity, directly submits an application for a grant under part C to the Secretary, and, if awarded such grant, receive

That which ls planted in the soll belongs to the soil. The proprietor of the soil becomes also the proprietor of the seed, the plant, and the tree, as soon as these have taken root

That which is planted in the soil belongs to the soil.

That which is built into the soil belongs to the soil.

solonc, soloinc, I. fr. In old English law. After; according to.

Soil; ground.

In Roman law. The solum italicum, (an extension of the old Ager Romanus) admitted full ownership, and of the application to it of usucajdo; whereas the solum provinciate (an extens

This alone the king cannot do, he cannot act unjustly.

11 Coke, 72. This alone the king cannot do, he cannot act unjustly.

Co.. Litt. 5. God alone makes the heir, not man.

God alone makes the heir. Co. Litt. 5. SOLUTIO (Lat. release). In civil law. Payment. By this term is understood everjr species of discharge or liberation, which is called "satisfa

Payment; settlement. Solutio indehiti. A payment of what is not owed.

In the civil law. Payment of what was not due. From the payment of what was not due arises an obligation quasi ex contractu. When one has erroneously given or performed something t

Old writs whereby knights of the shire and burgesses might have recovered their wages or allowance if it had been refused. 35 Hen. VIII. c. 11.

The payment of the price is regarded as taking the place of a sale. See 161 Fed. 822, 88 C. C. A. (U. S.) 640, 23 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1167.

Free; freed; released. Solvency. One,s possession of sufficient property to pay his debts. See 154 N. Y. 648, fil Am. St. Rep. 645, 49 N. E. 56.

Fr. In French law. Ability to pay; solvency. Emerig. Trait4 des Assur. c. 8, § 15.

The state of a person who is able to pay all his debts; the opposite of "insolvency" (g. v.) Imports adequate means of a person to pay his debts, which embraces within its meaning

In English A fund, consisting of moneys and securities, which, at the time of the passing of a bankruptey act, 1861, stood, in the Bank of England, to the credit of the commissiono

Lat. Paying. An apt word of reserving a rent in old conveyances. Co. Litt. 47a.

To be in a state of solvency, i. e., able to pay. SOLVENDO ESSE NEMO INTELLIGItup nisi qui solidum potest solvere. No one is considered to be solvent unless he can pay all that he

No one is regarded as solvent except him who can pay all he owes. Solvent. The quality of having property enough to pay one's debts. See 154 N. Y. 648, 61 Am. St. Rep. G45, 49 N. E

L To be paid at a future time.

I. In old English law. To be paid.

The term “solvent” means that the value of the assets of an entity exceed its obligations to creditors.

In English law. A loeal court which has its sittings in Lonlon only, which receives the petitions of insolvent debtors, and decides upon the question of granting a discharge. COURT

To pay; to release.

To pay the penalty.

No one is considered to be solvent unless he can pay all that he owes. Dig. 50, 16, 114.

(Lat. from solvere, q. v.) He paid. 10 East, 206. SOLVIT AD DIEM (Lat. he paid at the day). In pleading. The name of a plea to an action on a bond, or other obligation to pay money

He paid at the day.

A plea that the money was paid before the day appointed.

He paid after the day. The plea in an action of debt on bond that the defendant paid the money after the day named for the payment, and before the commencement of the suit. 1 Archb

A partnership is also dissolved by the death of a partner.

One is released by the means by which he is bound. See 4 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 582.

A division of the as, or pound, or duodecimal pai'ts, and amounting to two-thirds of an inheritance; eight per cent fr. In old English law. A writ which lay died seised of lands an

A celebrated decision of the English king's bench, in 1771- 72, affirming the extinction of villeinage, and the nonexistence of any other form of slavery in England. SON ASSAULT DE

to gain space, different words as the noun and the verb, are put in the phrases beginning with the caption word. is found in different languages and begins "it is otherwise; thus,

In French law. A demand served by a hulssier, by which one party calls upon another to do or not to do a certain thing. This document has for its object to establish that upon a ce

A celebrated English case (1772) holding a negro slave to be a freeman on English soil.

The act or habit of walking in one’s sleep.

The lapping over of a profound sleep into the domain of apparent wakefulness. See 78 Ky. 183, 39 Am. Rep. 213.

I. fr. Summons; a summons.

In ecclesiastical law, an officer of the ecclesiastical courts whose duty was to serve citations or process.

An immediate male descendant In its technical meaning in devises, this is a word of purchase; but the testator may moke it a word of descent Sometimes it is extended to more remote

Male child or descendant. The phrase, sons and daughters, in a will, may include grandchildren. Case of Smith 2 Desau. 123, in note.

It may be defined as a future interest not transmissible to the Fepresentatives of the party entitled thereto, in case he dies before it vests in possession. Tis, if a testator lea

Same as Son assault demesne.

His own assault, a plea of self-defense.

The Vel-leian decree of the senate. A decree enacted in the consulship of Velleius, by which married women were prohibited from making contracts. Story, Confl. Laws, § 425.

so near as actually to obstruct—and not merely near enough to threaten a possible obstruction.

The phrase 'so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice' connotes that the misbehavior must be in the vicinity of the court. 'Near' in this context, juxtaposed to

The term “songwriter” means the author of all or part of a musical work, including a composer or lyricist.

The husband of one’s daughter.

A mortuary offering; a corse-present.

This term denotes the normal condition of the human mind,—that state in which its faculties of perception and judgment are ordinarily well developed, and not impnired by mania, ins

the term “son or daughter” means a biological, adopted, or foster child, a stepchild, a legal ward, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis, who is— (A) under 18 years of

fr. Under his private signature, — a writing privately signed, not authenticated before a public officer.

A tax of forty shillings anciently laid upon every knight's fee. Cowell. SONTICUS (Lat.) In the civil law. That

Lat. In the civil law. Hurtful; injurious; hindering; excusing or justifying delay. Morbus sotiticus is any illness of so serious a nature as to prevent a defendant from appearing

I. fr. In old English law. Under. Sonth boys: underwood. South dean: sub dean. South riscount: under sheriff.

L fr. In old English law. Underwritten.

the standard mandated by our precedents—that the injury be "imminent," "Whitmore v. Arkansas," 495 U.S. 149 , 155, 110 S.Ct. 1717, 1723, 109 L.Ed.2d 135 (1990)—we are at a loss to

It was punished in England like witchcraft, which see. SORS (Lat.). In Civil Law. A lot; chance; fortune. Calvinus, Lex.; ^insworth, Diet. Sort. Kind. The little scroll on which th

or SORN. An arbitrary exaction, formerly existing in Scotland and Ireland. Whenever a chieftain had a mind to revel, he came down among the tenants with his followers, by way of co

An arbitrary exaction, formerly existing in Scotland and Ireland. Whenever a chieftain had a mind to revel, he came down among the tenants with his followers, by way of contempt ca

In Scotch law. A person who takes meat and drink from others by force or menaces, without paying for it. Bell, Diet. SORS (Lat.) In Civil Law. A lot; chance; fortune. Calv. Lex.; A

Lat In the civil law. Sister; a sister. Inst. 3, 6, 1.

The killing or murder of a sister; one who murders his sister. This is not a technical term of the law.

The plaintiff's answer of fact to the defendant's rebutter.

Lat. In the civil law. Lot; chance; fortune; hazard; a lot, made of wood, gold or other material. Money borrowed or put out at interest. A principal sum or fund, such as the capita

A casting lots.

Of supreme power, civil, military and political; the person or body of persons in whom such power resides.

In English law. A drain or water-course. The channels or water-courses used for draining mines are so termed; and those mines which are near to any given sough, and lie within the