SECUS. Otherwise.

SEDITION¹, crimes. The raising commotions² or disturbances³ in the state; it is a revolt against legitimate⁴ authority, Ersk. Princ. Laws, Scotl. b. 4, t. 4, s. 14; Dig. Lib. 49, t. 16, 1. 3, §19.

2. The distinction between sedition and treason consists in this, that though its ultimate object is a violation⁵ of the public peace, or at least such a course of measures as evidently engenders⁶ it, yet it does not aim at direct and open violence against the laws, or the subversion⁷ of the constitution. Alis. Crim. Law of Scotl. 580.

3. The. obnoxious⁸ and obsolete⁹ act of July 14, 1798, 1 Story's Laws U. S. 543, was called the sedition law, because its professed¹⁰ object was to prevent disturbances.

4. In the Scotch¹¹ law, sedition is either verbal or real. Verbal is inferred from the uttering of words tending to create discord¹² between the king and his people; real sedition is generally committed by convocating together any considerable number of people, without lawful¹³ authority, under the pretence¹⁴ of redressing¹⁵ some public grievance¹⁶, to the disturbing of the public peace. 1 Ersk. ut supra.

SEDUCTION. The offence of a man who abuses the simplicity¹⁷ and confidence of a woman to obtain by false promises what she ought not to grant.

2. The woman being particeps criminis, has no remedy for the mere¹⁸ seduction, nor is there, to the discredit¹⁹ of the law, a direct remedy in her parents. The seducer²⁰ may be sued, though not. directly or ostensibly for the seduction; but for the consequent inability to perform those services for which she was accountable to her master, or to her parent, who, for this purpose, is obliged to assume that less endearing relation; and if it cannot be proved that she filled that office, the action cannot be sustained. 7 Mann. & Gr. 1033. It follows, therefore, that when the daughter is of full age, and the father is not entitled to her services, and actually, she is not in his service, the father can maintain no action for the seduction. 5 Harr. & J. 27; 1 Wend. 447; 3 Pennsyl. 49; 10 John. 115. Vide 2 Watts²¹ 474; 9 John. 387; 2 Wend. 459; 5 Cowen 106; 2 Penn. 583; 6 Munf. 587; 2 A. K. Marsh²². 128; 2 Overt²³. 93; 9 John. R. 387; 2 New Reports, 476; 6 East, 887; Peake's Rep. 253; 11 East, 24; 5 East, 45; 2 T. R. 4; 2 Selw. N. P. 1001; 2 Phil. Ev. 156; 3 Chitt. Bl. Com. 140, n.; 7 Com. Dig. 318; 6 M. & W. 55.

SEEDS. The substance which nature prepares for the reproduction of plants or animals.

2. Seeds which have been sown in the earth immediately become a part of the land in which they have been sown; quae sata solo cedere intelliguntur. Inst. 2, 1, 32.