Side

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

See "Plea Side."

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

See Equity side; Law side.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The same court is sometimes said to have different sides; that is, different provinces or fields of jurisdiction. Thus, an admiralty court may have an "instance side," distinct from its powers as a prize court; the "crown side," (criminal jurisdiction) is to be distinguished from the "plea side," (civll Jurisdiction ;) the same court may have an "equity side" and a "law side."

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

Compare Along. " Fences on the sides of a railroad " may mean fences on the spaces between the road-bed and the outer lines of the company's land; not necessarily on the dividing lines.' ■ Thompson v. Currie, 4 Can. Leg. News, 139 (1881). 2 Coyle V. Commonwealth, 104 Pa. 133 (1883). 8 Gribble v. St. Paul Pioneer-Press Co., 31 Minn. 343. Side of the court. The laiv side and the equity side of a court designate a court administering justice, in the former case under the forms of strict law or common law, in the latter case according to the more liberal principles of equity. The' equity side of the courts is deemed always open for pleadings and proceedings preparatory to the ' hearing of causes upon their merits. Side-report. See Report, 3. Side-track. See Railroad.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

A statute requiring fences to be erected and maintained on the sides of a railroad, means on the vacant spaces between the road-bed and the outer lines of the company's land; not necessarily on the dividing line itself. Marshall v. St. Louis, &c. R. R. Co., 51 Mo. 138. SIDESMEN; SYNODSMEN. Persons whom, in the ancient episcopal synods, the bishops were wont to summon out of each parish to give information of the disorders of the clergy and people. In the process of time they became standing of Elcers, under the title of sidesmen, synodsmen, or questmen. All their duties seem now to have devolved by custom upon the churchwardens of a parish. Uripps Laws of Church ^ Clergy, 180.