Law Dictionary

To pay scot, tax, or customary dues. Cowell.

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An opprobrious title, applicable to a person of bad character. General damages will not lie for calling a man a scoundrel, but special damages may be recovered when there has been

to rearrange the content of the signal of the programming so that the programming cannot be viewed or heard in an understandable manner.

Scrambling possession: a struggle for the possession of land on the land itself.'

A gaining of possession by means of a physical struggle without resort to the courts. See 54 Cal. 176.

Mining in a mine or pit which has been opened and mined before. See 9-3 Mich. 491, 24 L. R. A. 357, 53 N. W. 625.

The term “scrap” means personal property that has no value except for its basic material content. / The term "scrap" means personal property that has no value except for

For purposes of this subsection, the term “scrap metal” means bits and pieces of metal parts (e.g., bars, turnings, rods, sheets, wire) or metal pieces that may be combined togethe

A scratch or transferred sale is one in which there is an offsetting purchase and sale at the same price on the same day.

A mark which Is to supply the place of a seal. 2 Pars. Cont. 100. See "Scroll." SCRIBA (Lat. from seribere, to write). A scribe; a secretary. Scriba regis, a king's secretary; a ch

The term “screening” means a visual or automated review of information about goods, including manifest or entry documentation accompanying a shipment being imported into the United

The term “screening, diagnostic, and classroom-based instructional reading assessments” means— (i) screening reading assessments; (ii) diagnostic reading assessments; and (iii) cla

The term “screening-eligible WTC survivor” has the meaning given such term in section 300mm–31(a)(1) of this title . / In this subchapter, the term “screening-eligible WTC survivor

The term “screening for glaucoma” means a dilated eye examination with an intraocular pressure measurement, and a direct ophthalmoscopy or a slit-lamp biomicroscopic examination fo

The term “screening mammography” means a radiologic procedure provided to a woman for the purpose of early detection of breast cancer and includes a physician's interpretation of t

The term “screening pap smear” means a diagnostic laboratory test consisting of a routine exfoliative cytology test (Papanicolaou test) provided to a woman for the purpose of early

The term “screening pelvic exam” means a pelvic examination provided to a woman if the woman involved has not had such an examination during the preceding 2 years, or during the pr

The term “screening reading assessment” means an assessment that is— (i) valid, reliable, and based on scientifically based reading research; and (ii) a brief procedure designed as

The term “screenings” shall include chaff, sterile florets, immature seed, weed seed, inert matter, and any other materials removed in any way from any seeds in any kind of cleanin

To write is to act. 2 Ro Ue, 89; 4 Bl. Comm. 80.

The term “scrimshaw product” means any art form which involves the substantial etching or engraving of designs upon, or the substantial carving of figures, patterns, or designs fro

A certificate or schedule. Evidence of the right to obtain shares in a public company; sometimes called "scrip certificate," to distinguish it from the real title to shares. Wharto

See Divioend.

The original or principal instrument, where there are part and counterpart. SCRIPTAE OBLIGATIONES SCRIPTIS tolluntur, et nudi consensus obllgatio, contrario consensu dissolvitur. W

A popular expression to designate a supposed rule of law that a man who takes the life of his wife’s paramour or daughter’s seducer is not guilty of a criminal offence. A trial jud

Written obligations are released by writings and an obligation of naked consent is dissolved by a contrary consent.

I. In old English law. The act or fact of writing.

Written obligations are superseded by writings, and, An obligation of naked assent ls dissolved by assent to the contrary.

In old records. A place in monasteries, where writing was done. Spelman.

A writing.

An indenture.

A bond.

In old English law. Scruet Scrivect' flninm: soruet of fines; a species of roll used in cases of habeas corpus.

A person whose business It is to write deeds and other instruments for others; a conveyancer. Money scriveners are those who are engaged in procuring money to be lent on mortgages

A printed or written mark Intended to supply the place of a seal. See "Seal." SCRUET ROLL (called, also, scruet finium, or simply scruet). In old English law. A record of the bail

An obsolete law society, also called "Serjeants' Place," opposite to St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, London.

Lat. A scribe; a secretary. Scriba regis, a king's secretary; a chancellor. Spelman.

In old practice. A species of roll or record, on which the ball on habeas corpus was entered.

In old English law. A species of roll or record, on which the bail on habeas corpus was entered.

An officer who guarded the king’s rights in flotsam, jetsam, wreck, and the like.

See Statuary. SE. See Sui, Se.

In old European law. Shaken or beaten out; threshed, as grain. Spelman.

Same as Escuage.

See "De Scutagio Habendo." SCYRA (Law Lat.) In old English law. Shire; county; the inhabitants of a county. Writ cited. Hale, Hist. Com. Law, 119. A fine imposed upon such as negle

Scutage.

A French coin of gold, coined A. D. 1427, of the value of 3s. 4d.

A scuttle; anything of a flat or broad shape like a shield. Cowell. —Scutella eleemosynaria. An alms-basket.

An alms-basket.

A knight’s attendant.

A shield.

A shield or coat of arms. Cowell.

In old English law. Shire; county; the inhabitants of a county.

The name of a court the principal court among the Saxons. It was holden twice a year for determining all causes, both ecclesiastical and secular. SE DEFENDENDO (Lat.) Defending him

An abbrevlation for "southern district."

632; or the words, "under any circumstances die by his own hand;" Schultz v. Ins. Co., 40 Ohio St. 217, 48 Am. Rep. 676. A Missouri statute, declaring that in all suits upon polici

Himself; themselves; itself.

The ocean; the great mass of water which surrounds the land, and which extends from pole to pole, covering nearly three-quarters of the globe. Waters within the ebb and flow of the

Assaults by masters in the merchant service upon seamen at sea.

A battery on a seaman at sea.

All that portion of land undet the sea that lies bsyond the sea-shore.

Same as Sea letter.

In a contract for sale of goods shipped or to be shipped, the phrase, ‘‘Sea damaged, if any, to be taken at a fair valuation,” contemplates the risk of damage to the goods by peril

Definition of Sea Duty.—(1) In this section, the term “sea duty” means duty performed by a member— (A) while permanently or temporarily assigned to a ship and— (i) while serving on

The term “seafarer” means an alien crew member who is employed or engaged in any capacity on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

The term “seafood” means farm-raised and wild-caught fish, shellfish, or marine algae harvested in the United States or by a United States flagged vessel for human consumption. / T

“seagoing barge” means a non-self-propelled vessel of at least 100 gross tons as measured under section 14502 of this title , or an alternate tonnage measured under section 14302 o

“seagoing motor vessel” means a motor vessel of at least 300 gross tons as measured under section 14502 of this title , or an alternate tonnage measured under section 14302 of this

The term "sea grant college" means any institution, or any association or alliance of two or more such institutions, designated as such by the Secretary under section 112

The term "sea grant institute" means any institution, or any association or alliance of two or more such institutions, designated as such by the Secretary under section 1

The term “Sea Grant Institution” means a sea grant college or sea grant institute, as those terms are defined in section 1122 of this title .

The term “sea grant program” means a program of research and outreach which is administered by one or more sea grant colleges or sea grant institutes.

In the Scotch law. Grounds overflowed by, the sea in spring tides. Bell.

Anciently, wax with an impression. Sigillum est cera impressa quia cera sine impressione non est sigillum. 3 Inst. 169; 21 Pick. (Mass.) 417; 2 Caines (N. Y.) 362. In more modern l

Maritime laws, aa those of Oleron, Wisbuy, and the Hanse Towns.

In English Practice. Motion days in the court of chancery, so called because every motion had to be stamped with the seal, which did not lie in court in the ordinary sittings out o

Having a seal affixed; under seal.

In conveyancing. The common formula of attestation of deeds and other instruments, written immediately over the witnesses' names. This has been retained without change from the old

Courts of law cannot incorporate into a sealed instrument what the parties left out of it, even though the omission was occasioned by the clearest mistake; nor can they reject what

One delivered privately to the judge out of court. See 4 Neb. 86.

An officer in chancery who sealed the writs and instruments.

or SEA BRIEF. In maritime law. A document which should be found on board of every neutral ship. It specifies the nature and quantity of the cargo, the place from whence it comes, a

A document which should be found on board of every neutral ship; it specifies the nature and quantity of the cargo, the place from whence it comes and its destination. Chitty, Law

The controversy concerning the sealing interest in Bering sea between the United States and Great Britain has involved an elaborate discussion with respect to the characteristics a

“Sealing” means the taking of fur seals.

In practice. The putting a verdict in writing, and placing it in an envelope, which is sealed. To relieve jurors after they have agreed, it is not unusual for the counsel to agree

Where a party to an action has been ordered to produce a document part of which is either irrelevant to the matters in question or is privileged from production, he may, by leave o

In English practice. The office at which certain judicial writs are sealed with the prerogative seal, and without which they are of no authority. The officer whose duty it is to se

The seal used by the United States in congress Arms: Paleways of thirteen pieces, argent and gules; a chief azure; the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayed prop

A document issued by the lord chancellor, previously to the commencement of the sittings, detailing the business to be done for each day in his court, and in the courts of the lord

In Louisiana. A method of taking the effects of a deceased person into public custody. On the death of a person, according to the laws of Louisiana, if the heir wishes to obtain th

A state legislature may certainly provide, that the same remedy shall be had in a promissory note, as on a bond or sealed instrument; but it will not thereby make the note a bond o

In a broad sense, a seaman is a mariner of any degree, one who lives his life upon the sea. It is enough that what he does affects 'the operation and welfare of the ship when she i

The law does not cover probable or expectant seamen but seamen in being. The fact that [a worker] had been, or expected in the future to be, a seaman does not render maritime work

The skill of a good seaman; an acquaintance with the art of navigating and managing a ship or other vessel.

the burden is upon one who sets up a seaman's release to show that it was executed freely, without deception or coercion, and that it was made by the seaman with full understanding

in this statute 'seamen' is to be taken to include stevedores employed in maritime work on navigable waters as the plaintiff was, whatever it might mean in laws of a different kind

It is a special favour, and a peculiar privilege allowed to them, and to them only; and is confined strictly to demands for wages. The reason upon which this privilege is founded,

In French law. A session; as of some public body.

When the sea, or a bay, is named as a boundary, the line of ordinary high-water mark is always intended where the common law prevails.