Solitary Confinement

In a general sense, the separate confinement of a prisoner, with only occasional access of any other person, and that only at the discretion of the jailer; in a stricter sense, the complete isolation of a prisoner from all human society, and his confinement in a cell so arranged that he has no direct intercourse with or sight of any human being, and no employment or instruction. See Medley, Petitioner, 134 U. S. 160, 10 Sup. Ct. 384, 33 L. Ed. 835, where an ex post facto statute which added to the punishment of death (in effect when the crime was committed), the further punishment of solitary confinement until execution, was held void. The opinion by Miller, J.,, gives much historical information on the subject. See Penitentiary; Punishment. S0LUTI0 (Lat. release). In Civil Law. Payment. By this term is understood every species of discharge or liberation, which is called satisfaction, and with which the creditor is satisfied. Dig. 46. 3. 54; Code 8. 43. to the numeration or counting of the Dig. 50. 16. 176. SOLUTIO INDEBITI (Lat.). In Civil The case where one has paid a debt, or an act or remitted a claim because he thought that he was bound in law to do so, when was not. In such cases of mistake there an implied obligation ( quasi ex contractu pay back the money, etc.; Poll. Contr, Maekeldey, Civ. Law § 458. • SOLVENCY. The state of a person who able to pay all his debts: as also such titude of his property as that it may reached and subjected by process of without his consent, to the payment of debts. Mitchell v. Bradstreet Co., 116 226, 22 S. W. 358, 724, 20 L. It. A. 138, 38 St. Rep. 592; Thompson v. Thompson, Cush. (Mass.) 127. The opposite of vency ( q. v.). SOLVENDUM IN FUTURO (Lat). To paid in the future. Used of an indebtedness which is said to be debitnm in presenti now) iind solvendum in futuro (payable in future). An interest in an estate may rested in presenti, though it be solvendum futuro, enjoyable in the future.