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The law assumes that property is always in the possession of its owner, in person or by agent; and it proceeds upon the theory that its seizure will inform him, not only that it is

it is a general rule, that any person may seize any property forfeited to the use of the government, either by the municipal law, or by the law of prize, for the purpose of enforci

It is a fair construction of this section, taking the whole together, that nothing more is necessary to give jurisdiction in cases of this nature, than that the seizure should be w

Where the heir on the death of his ancestor postpones claiming admittance from the lord, the lord may, after a reasonable time, and after due proclamation at three successive court

I fr. In old English law. Slander.

A shop, shed or stali in a market; a wood of sallows or wlllows; also a sawpit. Co. Litt. 4.

Choice; to choose; to take one thing rather than another. 61 111. 119. To pick out or take from among a number. There can be no selection, where there is nothing left. One may take

The term “select agent” means a biological agent or toxin to which subsection (a) applies. Such term (including for purposes of subsection (a)) does not include any such biological

The name given, in some states, to the upper house or branch of the council of a city.

The term "selected drug" means a covered drug for which the Secretary has determined through the process under subsection (c) that the labeling should be changed.

The term "selected drug publication date" means, with respect to each initial price applicability year, February 1 of the year that begins 2 years prior to such year.

The term “selected establishment” means an eligible establishment that is selected by the Secretary, in coordination with the appropriate State agency of the State in which the eli

The term “selected insulin products” means any dosage form (such as vial, pump, or inhaler dosage forms) of any different type (such as rapid-acting, short-acting, intermediate-act

The term “Selected Reserve” means the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of any of the reserve components (including the Army National Guard of the United States and the Air Nat

Same as Judices selecti.

acts of the register and receiver for which they are to receive fees? As to the selecting, it appears that this was done by the company; and, as said by the circuit judge,-" withou

For purposes of this section, the term “selecting physician” means, with respect to a contractor and category and competitive acquisition area, a physician who has elected this sec

The term “selection” means the determination of which applicants for assistance are to receive assistance under the program.

The term “selection board” means a selection board convened under section 573(c), 580, 580a, 581, 611(b), 637, 638, 638a, 14101(b), 14701, 14701a, 14704, 14705, or 20403 of this ti

The term “selection process” means the period with respect to a selection for assistance that begins with the development, preparation, and issuance of a solicitation or request fo

The conscious exercise of some selectivity in enforcement of a criminal statute is not in itself a federal constitutional violation; to state an equal protection claim based on sel

The style or title of a town officer. In many of the United States, the afiairs of a town are decided by popular vote in town meeting; but the executive conduct of them, and the de

The name of certain town officers in several states of the United States, who are invested by the statutes of the states with extensive powers for the conduct of the town business.

The term “self-administration” means a student's discretionary use of his or her prescribed asthma or anaphylaxis medication, pursuant to a prescription or written direction from a

anchors capable of self-adjustment, by having at all times free play, because not attached to their sockets nor moving with the bottom section to which the sockets are attached, wh

the system of self-assessment which is so largely the basis of our American scheme of income taxation. The purpose is not alone to get tax information in some form but also to get

For purposes of this subchapter, the term “self-care dialysis unit” means a renal dialysis facility or a distinct part of such facility or of a provider of services, which has been

The bookseller's self-censorship, compelled by the State, would be a censorship affecting the whole public, hardly less virulent for being privately administered.

The term “self-contained condensing unit” means a factory-made assembly of refrigerating components designed to compress and liquefy a specific refrigerant that is an integral part

For purposes of this section, the term “self-dealing” means any direct or indirect— (A) sale or exchange, or leasing, of property between a private foundation and a disqualified pe

crim. law, is the right to protect one’s person and property from injury. Even homicide may be excused, se defendendo, where a man has no other probable ! means of preserving his l

The protection by force of one's person or property from unlawful injury. The force used must be no more than is reasonably necessary to repel the hended. Thus, an assault with the

See "Suicide." SELF-EXECUTING —CONSTITUTIONAL provisions. Constitutional provisions are self-executing when it appears they shall take immediate effect, and ancillary legislation i

The term “self-determination activities” means activities that result in individuals with developmental disabilities, with appropriate assistance, having— (A) the ability and oppor

"self-determination contract" means a contract (or grant or cooperative agreement utilized under section 450e–1 of this title) entered into under part A of this subchapte

The term “self-directed” means, with respect to the home and community-based services offered under the State plan amendment, such services for the individual which are planned and

The term “self-directed care” means an approach to providing services (including programs, benefits, supports, and technology) under this chapter intended to assist an individual w

For purposes of this subsection, the term “self-directed personal assistance services” means personal care and related services, or home and community-based services otherwise avai

Self-regarding evidence against the party offering it.

For purposes of this section, the term “self-employed individual” means an individual who performs personal services— (1) as the owner of the entire interest in an unincorporated t

For the purposes of this chapter, the term “self-employment assistance program” means a program under which— (1) individuals who meet the requirements described in paragraph (3) ar

The term “self-employment income” means the net earnings from self-employment derived by an individual (other than a nonresident alien individual, except as provided by an agreemen

Indicating principles, without laying down rules by means of which those principles may be given the force of law. See 13 Wash. 17, 42 Pac. 625.

See Constitutional; and also Thomps. Corp. § 3001. SELF - REGARDING EVIDENCE. That evidence for or against a party which is afforded by the language or demeanor of himself or of th

in a strict sense the Treaty was self-executing, in that no legislation was necessary to authorize executive action pursuant to its provisions

The term "self-governance" means the program of self-governance established under section 458aaa–1 of this title. / The term “self-governance” means the Tribal Self-Gover

The term “self-healing grid” means a grid that is capable of automatically anticipating and responding to power system disturbances (including the isolation of failed sections and

Implicit in the statutory scheme, however, is the ultimate right of the disputants to resort to self-help—'the inevitable alternative in a statutory scheme which deliberately denie

the prohibition of compelling a man in a criminal court to be witness against himself is a prohibition of the use of physical or moral compulsion to extort communications from him,

When a question is propounded, it belongs to the court to consider and to decide whether any direct answer to it can implicate the witness. If this be decided in the negative, then

The appellant held the corporate books subject to the corporate duty. If the corporation were guilty of misconduct, he could not withhold its books to save it; and if he were impli

the privilege protects an accused only from being compelled to testify against himself, or otherwise provide the State with evidence of a testimonial or communicative nature

The term “self-insured medical reimbursement plan” means a plan of an employer to reimburse employees for expenses referred to in subsection (b) for which reimbursement is not prov

See Felo de Se; Suicide.

The term “self-neglect” means an adult’s inability, due to physical or mental impairment or diminished capacity, to perform essential self-care tasks including— (A) obtaining essen

The term “self-produced material” means a material that is produced by the producer of a good and used in the production of that good. / The term "self-produced material"

the term “self-propelled vehicle” includes any automobile, truck, tractor, bus, motorcycle, motor home, self-propelled agricultural machinery, self-propelled construction equipment

Evidence which either serves or disserves the party is so called. This species of evidence is either self-serving (which is not in general receivable), or self -disserving, which i

For purposes of this subsection, the term “self-regulatory organization” includes any self-regulatory organization (as defined in section 78c(a)(26) of this title ), any entity est

For purposes of this subsection, the term “self-rehabilitated building” means any building if it is reasonable to believe that more than half of the qualified rehabilitation expend

A man cannot make evidence for himself by writing a letter containing the statements that he wishes to prove. He does not make the letter evidence by sending it to the party agains

Self-regarding evidence in favor of the party offering it.

A ridge of ground rising between two furrows, containing no certain quantity, but sometimes more and sometimes less. Termes de la Ley.

any sale, exchange, contract to sell, consignment for sale, shipment for sale, or other disposition." Thus, under the general regulation, an outside salesman is any employee whose

The term “sell a real property asset” means to convey all title and interest in a piece of tangible real property in which the Corporation has a fee simple or equivalent interest.

The term “seller” means, with respect to a qualified product— (A) an importer (as defined in section 921(a)(9) of title 18 ) who is engaged in the business as such an importer in i

For purposes of this subsection, the term “seller-provided financing” means any indebtedness incurred in acquiring any residence if the person to whom such indebtedness is owed is

He who sells property on a description given by himself, is bound to make good that description; and if it be untrue in a material point, although the variance be occasioned by a m

The term as used on the board of trade means that the seller has until the last day of the month in which to make a delivery of any grain contracted to be sold. 79 111. 353.

The term “selling agent” means any person, other than a commission merchant, who is engaged in the business of negotiating the sale and purchase of any farm product on behalf of a

For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term "selling consolidated group" means any group of corporations which (for the taxable period which includes the transaction)— (i)

all manufacturing and other charges incurred prior to the actual shipment of an article and reflected separately or otherwise in the f.o.b. wholesale price are to be included in th

Buying or selling any office in the gift of the crown, or making any negotiation relating thereto, was deemed a misdemeanor under stats. 5 & 6 Edw. VI. c. 16, and 49 Geo. III. c. 1

See Short sale .

The term “sell or distribute” means to distribute, sell, offer for sale, hold for distribution, hold for sale, hold for shipment, ship, deliver for shipment, release for shipment,

For purposes of this subsection (other than paragraph (3)(A)(i)(VII)), the terms “sold”, “sells”, and “sale” shall include any lease, license, exchange, or other disposition.

The term “Sematech” means a consortium of firms in the United States semiconductor industry established for the purposes of (A) conducting research concerning advanced semiconducto

This case decided, in 2 Jac. I., that "every man's house [meaning his dwelling-house only] is his castle," and that the defendant may not break open outer doors in general, but onl

Seinble, which see.

fr. Similar; like. Semblement {Similiter): likewise. Semer,/r. To sow. Seme: sown.

It seems; a dictum holds.

Similarly.

Once a citizen always a citizen. Tray. Lat. Max. 555. SEMEL MALUS SEMPER PRAESUMltur esse malus in eodem genere. Whoever is once bad is presumed to be so always in the same degree.

Once bad, he is always presumed to be bad in the same way.

The act of a payce, accommodation indorser, or holder note, check, or other negotiable in- £, in writing his name upon the back me, with or without further or qualwords, whereby th

In the civil law, the collected decisions of the emperors in their councils.

or SEMESTRE (Lat. from sea;, six, and mensis, month). Of, or for six months. Dig. 27. 1. 41; St. Westminster IL c. 5; 2 Inst. 361. SEMI-MATRIMONIUM (Lat.) In Roman law. Half-marria

The term “semiautomatic rifle” means any repeating rifle which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round

According to well-established grammatical rules, this is a point only used to separate parts of a sentence more distinctly than a comma. Lambert v. People, 76 N. Y. 220, 32 Am. Bep

The term "semiconductor" has the meaning given that term by the Secretary.

In this paragraph, the term "semiconductor manufacturing"— (i) has the meaning given the term by the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Dire

The terms “Semiconductor Technology Council” and “Council” mean the advisory council established by section 4603 of this title .

The term “semi-critical reprocessed single-use device” means a reprocessed single-use device that is intended to contact intact mucous membranes and not penetrate normally sterile

(Civil Law) Concubinage.

Lat. In the civil law. A nursery of trees. Dig. 7, 1, 9, 6.

place of education, from whence scholars are transplanted into life.

Lat In maritime law. Half-shipwreck, as where goods are cast overboard in a storm; also where a snip has bcen so much damaged that her repair costs more than her worth. Wharton. '

(Civil Law) Half full proof, a presumption.

Lat In the civil law. Half-full proof; half-proof. 3 Bl. Comm. 370. See Half-Proof.

the term “semipostal” means a postage stamp which is issued and sold by the Postal Service, at a premium, in order to help provide funding for a cause described in subsection (b);