pleading. When the defendant~s plea contains a direct contradiction of the declaration, and concludes with referring the matter to be tried by a jury ...
eccl. law. The selling and buying of holy orders, or an ecclesiastical benefice. Bac. Ab. h. t.; 1 Harr. Dig. 556. By simony is also understood an unl...
Not compounded, alone; as, simple interest, which is interest on the principal sum lent only and not interest on the interest; simple contract, &c. ...
One, the evidence of which is merely oral, or in writing, not under seal, nor of record. 1 Chit. Contr. 1 1 Chit. Pl. 88; and vide 11 Mass. R. 30 ll E...
The felonious taking and carrying away the personal goods of another, unattended by acts of violence; it is distinguished from compound larceny, which...
An unconditional obligation, one which is to be performed without depending upon any event provided by the parties to it. ...
A simple trust corresponds with the ancient use, and is where property is simply vested in one person for the use of another, and the nature of the tr...
Simple or single; as, charta simplex, is a deed-poll, of single deed. Jacob~s L. Dict. h. t. ...
Simply, without ceremony; in a summary manner. ...
pleading. Together with. These words are used in indictments and declarations of trespass against several persons, when some of them are known and oth...
French law. This word is derived from the Latin simul, together. It indicates, agreeably to its etymology, the concert or agreement of two or more per...
Without day. A judgment for a defendant in many cases is quod eat sine die, that he may go without day. While the cause is pending and undeter-mined, ...
In the ecclesiastical law, this term is used to signify that an ecclesiastical officer is without a charge or cure. 2. In common parlance it means th...
By itself, unconnected. 2. A single bill is one without any condition, and does not depend upon any future event to give it validity. Single is also ...
A term used among merchants signifying that the entry is made to charge or to credit an individual or thing, without, at the same time, pre-senting an...
construction. In grammar the singular is used to express only one, not plural. Johnson. 2. In law, the singular frequently includes the plural. A be...
A fund arising from particular taxes, imposts, or duties, which is appropriated towards the payment of the interest due on a public loan and for the g...
A title of honor given to kings or emperors in speaking or writing to them. ...
A woman who has the same father and mother with another, or has one of them only. In the first case she is called sister, simply; in the second, half ...
Situation;, location. 5 Pet. R. 524. 2. Real estate has always a fixed situs, while personal estate has no such fixed situs; the law rei site regulat...
com. law. A blank paper, properly stamped, in those countries where stamps are required, with the name of a person signed at the bottom. 2. In such c...
contracts. The art of doing a thing as it ought to be done. 2. Every person who purports to have skill in la business, and undertakes for hire to per...
torts. The defaming a man in his reputation by speaking or writing words which affect his life, office, or trade, or which tend to his loss of preferm...
A calumniator, who maliciously and without reason imputes a crime or fault to another, of which he is innocent. 2. For this offence, when the slander...
A man who is by law deprived of his liberty for life, and becomes the property of another. 2. A slave has no political rights, and generally has no c...
criminal law. The infamous traffic in human flesh, which though not prohibited by the law of nations, is now forbidden by the laws and treaties of mos...
The state or condition of a slave. 2. Slavery exists in most of the southern states. In Pennsylvania, by the act of March, 1780, for the gradual abol...
The fraudulent taking into a country, or out of it, merchandise which is lawfully prohibited. Bac. Ab. h. t. ...
The formula at the end of a common oath, as administered to a witness wlio testifies in chief. ...
Eng. law. A tenure of lands by certain inferior services in husbandry, and not knight~s service, in lieu of all other services. Litt. sect. 117. ...
The father of one~s wife; a father-in-law. ...
civ. law. This is the name of a contract by which one man delivers to another, either for a small recompense, or for a part of the profits, certain an...
Among the Roman lawyers this term signified that kind of society or partnership by which the entire profits should belong to some of the partners in e...
This term is borrowed from the laws of France, and is used in Louisiana; the societe en commendite, or partnership in commendam, is formed by a contra...
A society is a number of persons united together by mutual consent, in order to deliberate, determine, and act jointly for some common purpose. 2. So...
One who his been guilty of sodomy. Formerly such offender was punished with great severity, and was deprived of the power of making a will. ...
crim. law. The crime against nature, committed either with man or beast. 2. It is a crime not it to be named; peccatum illud horrible, inter christia...
The superficies of the earth on which buildings are erected, or may be erected. 2. The soil is the principal, and the building, when erected, is the...
Eng. law. Let right be done to the party. This phrase is written on a petition of right, and subscribed by the king. See Petition of right. ...
Eng. law. Those who hold their land in socage. 2 Bl. Com. 100. ...
Spanish law. Lots of ground. This term is frequently found in grants from the Spanish government of lands in America. 2 White~s Coll. 474. ...
contracts. The name of an instrument in writing, given by a broker to a buyer of merchandise, in which it is stated that the goods therein mentioned h...
A military man; a private in the army. 2. The constitution of the United States, amendm. art. 3, directs that no soldier shall, in time of peace, be ...
Alone, single; used in contradistinction to joint or married. A sole tenant, therefore, is one who holds lands in his own right, without being joined ...
The formality established by law to render a contract, agreement, or other act valid. 2. A marriage, for example, would not be valid if made in jest,...
The asking a person to commit adultery or fornication. 2. This of itself, is not an indictable offence. Salk. 382; 2 Chit. Pr. 478. The contrary doct...
A person whose business is to be employed in the care and management of suits depending in courts of chancery. 2. A solicitor, like an attorney, (q. ...
The title of one of the officers of the United States, created by the act of May 29, 1830, 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story, L. U. S. 2206, which prescribes h...
IN, civil law. In solido, is a term used to designate those contracts in which the obligors are bound, jointly and severally, or in which several obli...
The punishment of separate confinement. This has been adopted in Pennsylvania, with complete success. Vide Penitentiary. ...
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