Scintilla

Lat A spark; a remaining particie; the least particle.

— Scintilla jnris. In real property law. A spark of right or interest. By this figurative expression was denoted the small particle of interest which, by a fiction of law, was supposed to remain in a feoffee to uses, sufficient to support contingent uses afterwards coming into existence, and thereby enable the statute of uses (27 Hen. VIII. c. 10) to execute them. See 2 Washb. Real Prop. 125; 4 Kent, Comm. 238.

— Scintilla of evidence. A spark, glimmer, or faint show of evidence. A metaphorical expression to describe a very insignificant or trifling item or particle of evidence; used in the statement of the common-law rule that if there is any evidence at ali in a case, even a mere scintilla, tending to support a material issue, the case cannot be taken from the jury, but must be left to their decision. See Offutt v. World's Columbian Exposition, 175 111. 472, 5l N. E. 651.

I. A spark; a remaining particle; the least particle. Scintilla juris: a spark of right; a remaining particle of right or inter-est; portion of the fee-simple of an estate, supposed to remain in feoffees to uses, to serve and support contingent uses when they came into being. ir'icire, I. To know; to be aware of. Scire debes cnm quo contrahis: you ought to know with vehom you contract or bargain. Scire facias: cause you to know; a judicial writ, founded on a record, and requiring the person against whom it is brought to show cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record, or why the record should not be annulled. Scire feci: I have caused to know; the return to a writ of scire facias. Scire proprie est rem ratione et per causam cognoscere: to know properly is to In the civil law. Scire leges, non hoc est verba earum tenere, sed Tim ac potestatem: to know the laws is not to observe their mere words, but their force and power; [that is, the essential meaning in which their ef Soacy resides].

A spark, a glimmer; the smallest particle. Scintilla juris. A spark of right or law; the smallest particle of legal interest. Designated a fiction resorted to to enable a feoffee to uses to support a contingent use when it should come into existence and thereby effect an execution of the use under the Statute of Uses. In theory a small though sufficient portion of the fee-simple remained in the feoffee, which involved a possibility of future seizin in him. See Use, 3. Scintilla of evidence. The doctrine that when, on the trial of a cause, there is any evidence, however slight, tending to support the issue, the case must be submitted to the jury for a verdict, no longer prevails. See Nonsuit.

/. Spark. Scire debes cum whom you contract. the name of a writ the defendant to advantage of it; or enforce a give notice in various the return of a when a sheri Ef testatoris, without make inquiry as to ezecutione, I. A wise man begins with the first in intention is last in execution. woodland turned into arable, t. Assartare. fontes quam sectari rivulos, I. It is better than to follow out the streams. Sang, Sans. To excuse a default. wit. Exchequer; the Exchequer, v. Court, II. magnatum, /. The slander of great noble, or judge, which formerly made the slanspecial action on the case. To know. et futuri, I. Know all men present and to est: it is to be known [understood]. I. Wittingly; in full knowledge. Scienti fit injuria: no legal wrong may be done to wills it. Scientia utriusque par pares facit: equal knowledge on both sides makes the equal.; a term used to express that the defendant circumstances, knowledge of which is necessary to as that a dog was ad mordendum assuetus. that is to say." Scintilla juris: a particle of right. quo contrahes, I. You ought to know with Scire facias (that you cause to know); founded upon matter of record, and requiring show cause why the plaintiff should not take most frequently brought to revive a judgment, recognizance. Also, an interlocutory process, as to cases. Scire feci (I have given notice): sheriff to a scire facias. Scire fieri inquiry: returned nulla iona to a feri facias de bonis also returning devastavit, this writ issued to what had become of the testator's goods. The