SCITE. The setting or standing¹ of may place. The seat or situation of a capital messuage, or the ground on which it Stood. Jacob, L. D. h. t.

SCOLD. A woman who by her habit of scolding becomes a nuisance to the neighborhood, is called a common scold. Vide Common Scold.

SCOT AND LOT, Eng. law. The name of a customary contribution, laid upon all the subjects according to their ability.

SCOUNDREL. An opprobrious² title given to a person of bad character. General damages will not lie for calling a man a scoundrel, but special damages may be recovered when there has been an actual loss. 2 Bouv: Inst. n. 2250; 1 Chit. Pr. 44.

SCRIPT, conv. The original or principal instrument, where there are part and counterpart. Vide Chirograph; Part, Rescript.

SCRIVENER. A person whose, business it is to write deeds and other instruments for others; a conveyancer.

2. Money scriveners are those who are engaged in procuring³ money to be lent on mortgages and other securities, and lending such money accordingly. They act also as agents for the purchase and sale of real estates.

3. To be considered a money scrivener, a person must be concerned in carrying on the trade or profession as a means of making a livelihood⁴. He must in the course of his occupation receive other men's moneys into his trust and custody⁵, to lay out for them as occasion offers. 3 Camp. R. 538; 2 Esp. Cas. 555.

SCROLL⁶. A mark which is to supply the place of a seal, made with a pen or other instrument on a writing.

2. In some of the states this has all the efficacy of a seal. 1, S. & R. 72; 1 Wash. 42; 2 McCord, 380; 4 McCord 267; 3 Blackf. 161; 3 Gill & John. 234; 2 Halst. 272. Vide Seal; 2 Serg. & Rawle, 504; 2 Rep. 5. a; Perk⁷. §129. In others, a scroll has no such effect; and when a suit is brought on an instrument sealed with a scroll, the act of limitations may be pleaded to it, as to a simple contract. 2 Rand. 446; 6 Halst. 174; 5 John. 239; 1 Blackf. 241; Griff. Law Reg., answers to question No 110.