Scroll

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 accepted in cases of habeas corpus. The award was set down in the remembrance roll, together with the cause of commitment, the writ and return were put on file, the bail was recorded in the scruet. 3 How. St. Tr. 134, 135, arg. For remembrance roll, see Reg. Michael. 1654, § 15. SCRUTATOR (Lat. from serutari, to search).

In old English law. A bailiff whom the king of England appointed in places that were his in franchise or interest, whose duty was to look after the king's water rights; as flotsam, jetsam, wreck, etc. 1 Harg. Tr. p. 23; Pat. 27 Hen. VL parte 2, m. 20; Pat. 8 Ed. IV. parte 1, m. 22. SCUTAGE (from Lat. scutum, a shield). Knight service. Litt. § 99. The tax which those who, holding by knight service, did not accompany the king, had to pay on its being assessed by parliament. Escuage certain was a species of socage where the compensation for service was fixed. Litt. i§ 97, 98; Reg. Orig. 88; Wright, Ten. 121-134.

' A mark intended to supply the place of a seal made with a pen on a deed or other instrument of writing. Mitch. R. E. & Conv. 454, 455. In Mississippi and Florida it has been held, that “a scroll attached to a written instrument has the effect of a seal, whenever it appears from the body of the instrument, the scroll itself, or the place where affixed, that such scroll was intended as a seal;*’ Hudson v. Poindexter, 42 Miss. 304. The word “seal” affixed to the name has been held equivalent to a seal or scroll; Whitley v. Davis’ Lessee, 1 Swan (Tenn.) 333; Cochran v. Stewart, 57 Minn. 490, 59 N. W. 543; and so where the word seal is printed and appears opposite the name; Lorah v. Nissley, 156 Pa. 329, 27 Atl. 242; otherwise in Virginia and Indiana. In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania a printed “L. S.,” inclosed in brackets, in the usual place of a seal, is sufficient; Williams v. Starr, 5 Wis. 549 (see Barnard v. Gantz, 140 N. Y. 249, 35 N. E. 430); or in the latter state a seal made with a flourish of the pen; Appeal of Hacker, 121 Pa. 192, 15 Atl. 500, 1 L. R. A. 861, a printed “L. S.” annexed to the maker’s signature constitutes a seal by adoption where the instrument recites that it is executed under the maker’s hand and seal; Stansell v. Corley, 81 Ga. 453, 8 S. E. 868. An expression in the body of the instrument denoting that it is sealed is sufficient, whatever the scroll may be; Ann- SCRUET ROLL (called, also, Seruet Finium t or simply Seruet). In Old English Law. A record of the bail accepted in cases of habeas corpus. The award was set down in the remembrance roll, together with the cause of commitment, the writ and return were put on file, the bail was recorded in the seruet. 3 Howell, St. Tr. 134, arg. For remembrance roll, see Reg. Mich. 1654, § 15. SCRUTATOR (Lat. from scrutari, to search). In Old English Law. A bailiff whom the king of England appointed in places that were his in franchise or interest, whose duty was to look after the king’s water-rights: as, flotsam, jetsam, wreck, etc. 1 Hagr. Tracts 23; Pat. 27 Hen. VI. parte 2, m. 20; Pat. 8 Ed. IV. parte 1, m. 22. SCUTAGE (from Lat. scutum, a shield). Knight-service. Littleton § 99. The tax which those who, holding by knight-service, did not accompany the king, had to pay on its being assessed by parliament. Scutage certain was a species of socage where the compensation for service was fixed. Littleton § 97; Reg. Orig. 88. Payment in lieu of military service was the essential principle of scutage. It was the fixed sum due from mesne tenants to their lord. See Round, Feud. Engl. 270; 3 Iloldsw. Hist. E. L. 34; Vinogradoff, Engl. Soc. 15. SCYREGEM0TE. The name of a court among the Saxons. It was the court of the shire, in Latin called curia comitatis, and the principal court among the Saxons. It was liolden twice a year for determining all causes both ecclesiastical and secular. SE DEFENDEND0 (Lat.). Defending himself. Homicide sc defendo may be justifiable.

scrowl. A paper or parchment containing some writing, and rolled up so as to conceal it; an escrow; a flourish with a pen, at the end of a signature, including the word "seal" or the letters " L. S.," rudely representing a seal

A flourish made with a pen, around " L. S." or "Seal," and intended for a seal. May consist of a circle, a scalloped curved line, or even of brackets, written opposite the place of signature. See further Seal, 1.,