Law Dictionary

The word “seaplane” includes any aircraft designed to maneuver on the water;

As used in this title, the term “seaport” means all piers, wharves, docks, and similar structures, adjacent to any waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, to which

Such use of a searchlight is comparable to the use of a marine glass or a field glass. It is not prohibited by the Constitution.

RIGHT OF. In international law. The right existing in a belligerent to examine and inspect the papers of a neutral vessel at sea. On the continent of Europe this is called the "rig

The Government's activities in electronically listening to and recording the petitioner's words violated the privacy upon which he justifiably relied while using the telephone boot

In English law. An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to examine and search all ships outward bound, to ascertain whether they have any prohibited or unaccustomed goods on bo

The term “SEARCH grant” means a grant awarded under section 2009ee–1(f) of this title.

When an arrest is made, it is reasonable for the arresting officer to search the person arrested in order to remove any weapons that the latter might seek to use in order to resist

The right without a search warrant contemporaneously to search persons lawfully arrested while committing crime and to search the place where the arrest is made in order to find an

It is not an assertion of the right on the part of the government always recognized under English and American law, to search the person of the accused when legally arrested, to di

one's house cannot lawfully be searched without a search warrant, except as an incident to a lawful arrest therein. The search of a private dwelling without a warrant is in itself

The issue of a second warrant is essentially a new proceeding which must have adequate support. The fact that it is a second warrant gives the commissioner no privilege to dispense

It is a cardinal rule that, in seizing goods and articles, law enforcement agents must secure and use search warrants wherever reasonably practicable. This rule rests upon the desi

An officer in maritime towns and places, who takes care of the maritime rights of the lord of the manor, watches the shore, and collects the wreck.

Pirates and robbers at sea.

The margin of the sea in its usual and ordinary state. When the tide is out, low-water mark is the margin of the sea ; and, When the sea is full, the margin is high-water mark. The

The 'seashore' is that well-defined area, lying between high-water mark and the low-water mark, of waters in which the tide daily ebbs and flows.

as between the holder and the drawer or indorser of a dishonoured bill, the question of their liability depends not on actual notice, but on seasonable diligence, which is in all c

The term "seasonal" means the time range between 3 months and 2 years. / The term "seasonal" means the time range between 3 months and 2 years.

In this section, the term “seasonal agricultural services” means the performance of field work related to planting, cultural practices, cultivating, growing and harvesting of fruit

Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term “seasonal agricultural worker” means an individual who is employed in agricultural employment of a seasonal or other temporary natu

In this section, the term “seasonal closure” means any period during which— (1) a unit, or portion of a unit, of Federal recreational lands and waters is closed to the public for a

the term "seasonal employer" means an eligible recipient that— (I) does not operate for more than 7 months in any calendar year; or (II) during the preceding calendar yea

The term “seasonal quarters” means quarters typically occupied by field employees who are hired on assignments of 6 months or less. / The term “seasonal quarters” means quarters ty

The term “seasonal worker” means a worker who performs labor or services on a seasonal basis as defined by the Secretary of Labor, including workers covered by section 500.20(s)(1)

The term “seasoned direct loan borrower” means a borrower receiving a direct loan under this chapter who has been classified as “commercial” or “standard” under subpart W of part 2

Settled; actually occupied. Opposed, unseated. Said of land, in earlier legislation. Residence without cultivation or cultivation without residence constitutes seated land. Tempora

Land used for a residence or farm, cultivated, occupied or revenue producing land. See 105 Pa. 562.

Same as County seat.

seawerpe, sax. In old English law. Wreck; that which is cast up by the sea. Second deliverance. A writ for a plaintiff in replevin, where the defendant has obtained judgment for re

The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads (or wampum) which passed among the Indians as money. Webster.

In old American law. The Dutch name for wampum, or Indian money, which consisted of perforated beads, manufactured from the inside of shells, and strung together. O'Callaghan's N.

A species of grass which grows in the sea. When cast upon land, it belongs to the owner of the land adjoining the seashore, upon the grounds that it increases gradually, that it is

She must be so tight that the water will not reach the cargo, so strong that these ordinary applications of external force will not spring a leak or sink her, so sound that she wil

The ship should be in a condition to encounter whatever perils of the sea a ship of that kind, and laden in that way, may be fairly expected to encounter on the voyage

The words in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, mean that the ship must be “in a fit state, as to repairs, equipment, and crew, and in all other respects, to encounter ordinary peril

See those titles.

In medical Jurisprudence. Religious insanity; demonomania.

Religious insanity; demonomania.

See Rent sec .

the term "SECC" means a State Emergency Communications Committee;

A tax imposed upon the succession to, or devolution of, real property by devise, deed, or intestate succession. See Ferry v. Campbell, 110 Iowa, 290, 81 N. W. 604 ; 50 L. R. A. 92;

A want of remedy by distress. Litt. § 218. See "Rent." Want of present fruit or profit, as in the case of the reversion without rent or other service, except fealty. Co, Litt. 151b

The term “seclusion” means a behavior control technique involving locked isolation. Such term does not include a time out. / The term “seclusion” means a behavior control technique

According to; in favor of; near. Secundum aequum et bonum: according to what is just and good. Secundum allegata et probata: according to the things alleged and proved; according t

According to the form of the statute.

According to the rule; by rule.

According to the subject-matter. 1 Bl. Comm. 229. All agreements must be construed secundum subjectam materiam if the matter will bear it 2 Mod. 80, arg.

See Secured.

a change made in the indictment, after it was found, by striking out some words in it, and then proceeding to try the prisoner upon the indictment as thus changed.

With obvious purpose to assure the continuation and render possible the effectiveness of such forces the declaration and guarantee of the Second Amendment were made. It must be int

Second appeals or writs of error are allowed, but the rule is universal that they bring up only the proceedings subsequent to the mandate, and do not authorize an inquiry into the

The term “secondarily contained” means a release detection and prevention system that meets the requirements of 40 CFR 280.43(g), but shall not include under-dispenser spill contai

Not liable until recourse against one primarily liable has been exhausted.

In English law. An officer courts of king's bench or common pleas; secondary of the remembrancer in the exchequer, etc. Jacob. In Medical Practice. Secondary is the term for a dise

The term "secondary activities" means— (A) the active management or operation of vessels other than qualifying vessels in the United States foreign trade, (B) the provisi

A combination not merely to refrain from dealing with complainant, or to advise or by peaceful means persuade complainant's customers to refrain ('primary boycott'), but to exercis

A conveyance which presupposes some precedent conveyance, which it serves only to confirm, restrain or enlarge. Secondary evidence: evidence which supposes better evidence, which i

A deed or conveyance which confirms, modifies or enlarges a prior one.

or derivative conveyances, are those which presuppose some other conveyance precedent, and only serve to enlarge, confirm, alter, restrain, restore, or transfer the interest grante

The term “secondary drinking water regulation” means a regulation which applies to public water systems and which specifies the maximum contaminant levels which, in the judgment of

A kind of appendancy or appurtenancy of one easement to or upon another easement, passing with the principal easement, as being necessary or convenient to the enjoyment of the same

the terms "elementary education" and "secondary education" have the meaning given such terms under State law;

secondary features that happen to be associated with the particular type of speech but have nothing to do with its content, whereas, here, the asserted justification for the displa

in order to maintain a title by secondary evidence, the claimant must show to the satisfaction of the court: 1st, that the grant was obtained and made in the manner the law require

It is a general rule of the law of evidence, that secondary evidence of the contents of written instruments is not admissible, when the originals are within the control or custody

All those franchises of a corporation other than its right or franchise to be a corporation, which is the primary one. See 22 Colo. 429, 37 L. R. A. 711.

See Secondarily liable .

buyers' competition, commonly termed secondary-line competition

This will happen, for illustration, when by common acceptation the description, once misused, has acquired a secondary meaning as firmly anchored as the first one.

One arising from the breach of a primary obligation, e.g., to pay damages. See Primary obligation . See, also, 8 Harv. Law Rev. 200.

The term "secondary recovery" means the recovery of critical minerals and metals from discarded end-use products or from waste products produced during the metal refining

In this section, the terms “early childhood education program”, “elementary school”, and “secondary school” have the meanings given such terms in section 7801 of title 20 . / The t

The term "secondary State" means, with respect to a covered sports medicine professional, any State that is not the primary State.

The term “secondary transmission” has the meaning given that term in section 111(f) of this title . / The terms “network station”, “non-network station”, “satellite carrier”, and “

The term “secondary treatment” has the meaning such term has under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and its implementing regulations.

A use limited to take effect in derogation of a preceding estate, otherwise called a "shifting use," as a conveyance to the use of A. and his heirs, with a proviso that, when B. re

For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “second-chance home” means an entity that provides individuals described in clause (ii) with a supportive and supervised living arrangem

the assailed provision when rightly construed only affixes additional conditions for admission to a privileged class of mail, and it was merely designed to provide for the continua

first offense after an earlier conviction.

Those who are related, being descended from the same greatgrandfather, or great-grandmother. L. R. 19 Ch. Div. 204. See Legacy.

The term “second crop” means a second crop of the same agricultural commodity as the first crop, or a crop of a different agricultural commodity following the first crop, planted o

In practice. The name of a writ given by the statute of Westminster II. (13 Edw. I. c. 2), founded on the record of a former action of replevin, 2 Inst. 341. It commands the sherif

By 17 Car. It. c. 7, § 4, in all cases where the value of the cattle distrained shall not be found to be of the full value of the arrears distrained for, the party to whom such arr

one who put his name on the back of a note intended for discount, with the understanding of all the parties that his endorsement would be inoperative until it was endorsed by the p

The term “second generation biofuel” means any liquid fuel which— (I) is derived by, or from, qualified feedstocks, and (II) meets the registration requirements for fuels and fuel

Hearsay, because the facts were perceived or discovered by some other than the witness testifying or by an agency extraneous to that producing the evidence offered.

One which takes rank immediately after a first lien on the same property and is next entitled to satisfaction out of the proceeds.

One over which another one has priority.

See First of exchange. See, also, 63 U. S. 96, 16 L. Ed. 323. First of exchange . See, also, 63 U. S. 96, 16 L. Ed. 323.

knowledge to the plaintiff that the bills were drawn in sets, would be to give them an effect contrary to the averments of the defendants' pleas, as well as contrary to the admitte

exactly the same thing, to that "second conviction" means "first offense after an earlier conviction.

For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “second phase” means the 15-year period immediately following the 20-year, 15-year, or 10-year period described in subparagraph (B), whi

Assistants at a duel. They are equally guilty with the principals under many of the statutes against duelling. See "Duelling."

The term “second segment rate” means, with respect to any month, the single rate of interest which shall be determined by the Secretary for such month on the basis of the corporate

WRIT OF. The name of a writ issued in England against a commoner who has a second time surcharged the common. 3 Bl. Comm. 239.

In this paragraph, the term "second target station" means the Spallation Neutron Source second target station described in— (i) the publication entitled, "Facilities

For purposes of this subchapter, the term “second tier tax” means any tax imposed by subsection (b) of section 4941, 4942, 4943, 4944, 4945, 4951, 4952, 4955, 4958, 4971, or 4975.

The term "Second Tranche Amount" means, with respect to each metropolitan city for which an amount is allocated under subsection (b)(1), each State for which an amount is

the second writ of error brings up nothing for revision except the proceedings subsequent to the mandate; and it follows that if those proceedings are merely such as the mandate co