Set

This word appears to be nearly synonymous with "lease." A lease of mines is frequently termed a "mining set." Brown.

The several parts of a writing drawn in duplicate. Set of exchange: a bill of exchange drawn in several parts, any one of which being paid the others are to be void.

1. n. All of several duplicates considered together: as, a set of exchange, q. v. A lease of mines has been called a "mining set." 2. v. In conjunction with other words, has received judicial interpretation: Set aside. To annul, vacate, make void; "to defeat the effect or operation of:" as, to set aside — an award, a verdict, report, judgment, writ, the service of a writ, a fraudulent conveyance, qq. v. Compare Cancel. Set down. To place upon the appropriate docket or record: as, to set down a case for argument or hearing. Set on fire. A statute allowing damages against one who shall set on fire the property of another does not apply to an accidental firing by a locomotive engine, without negligence. Set out. To aver, allege: as, to set out a writing in its own words; to set out in an indictment the facts which constitute the elements of the offense charged. Set up. To propose as legally sufficient, by way of explanation or exoneration: as, to set up a defense or a matter in defense.

V. Setting down a cause for hearing is done by entering the name of the cause ia the list of matters ready to come on for hearing in court, specifying the stage at which it is ready to come on for hearing. This has been a familiar expression in courts of equity. And, similarly, in the judicature act, 1875, first schedule, order 40, rules 3, 7, it is provided that a party may, under the circumstances mentioned in those rules, set down the action on motion for judgment. Mozley & W. The phrase, setting down a plea for hearing, in the hitherto received chanceiy practice, indicates that a plaintiff considers a defendant's plea insufiicient in point of law; to set down the plea for hearing is a course answering to a demurrer in an action at law. Hunt Eq. Set off. When incorporated, a pollparish is considered as " set off " from the town. Sutton v. Cole, 8 i Vass. 96.