日期：2008-03-24 SPECIAL INJUNCTION. One obtained only on motion and petition, with notice to the other party, and is applied for, sometimes on affidavit before answer, but more frequently upon merits disclosed in the defendant's answer. 4 Bouv. lust. n. 3756. See I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SPECIAL CONSTABLE. One who has been appointed a constable for a particular occasion, as in the case of an actual tumult or a riot, or for the purpose of serving a particular process. SPECIAL DAMAGES. Such as actually have been suffered, and are not... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SPARSIM. This Latin adverb signifies scatteredly, here and there, in a scattered manner, sparsedly, dispersedly. It is sometimes used in law; for example, the plaintiff may recover the place wasted, not only where the injury has been total, but wher... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SOVEREIGN. A chief ruler with supreme power; one possessing sovereignty. (q. v.) It is also applied to a king or other magistrate with limited powers. 2. In the United States the sovereignty resides in the body of the people. Vide Rutherf. Inst. 282... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SOUS SEING PRIVE. An act sous seingprive, in Louisiana and by the French law, is an act or contract evidenced by writing under the private signature of the parties to it. The term is used in opposition to the authentic act, which is an agreement ent... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SOURCES OF THE LAW. By this expression is understood the authority from which the laws derive their force. 2. The power of making all laws is in the people or - their representatives, and none can have any force whatever, which is derived from any o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SON ASSAULT DEMESNE, pleading. His own first assault. A form of a plea to justify an assault and battery, by whicb the defendant asserts that the plaintiff committed an assault upon him, and the defendant merely defended himself. 2. When the plea is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SOLITARY IMPRISONMENT. The punishment of separate confinement. This has been adopted in Pennsylvania, with complete success. Vide Penitentiary. SOLUTION, civil law. Payment. 2. By this term, is understood, every species of discharge or liberation, w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SOLICITOR OP THE TREASURY. 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 his duties aud his rights. 2. - 1. His powers and duties are, 1. Those wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SOKEMANS, Eng. law. Those who hold their land in socage. 2 Bl. Com. 100. SOLARES, 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. SOLD NOTE, contracts. The na... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SOCIETE EN COMMENDITE. 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 contract, by which one person or partnership agrees to furnish another person or p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SLAVERY. 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 abolition of slavery, it has been almost entirely removed in Massachusetts it was held, soon af... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SLANDERER . 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 is merely verbal, the remedy is an action on the case for damages; when it is reduced t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SIRE . A title of honor given to kings or emperors in speaking or writing to them. SISTER. 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 sister.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SINECURE. 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 the receipt of a salary for an office when there are no duties to be performed. SINGLE. By i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SIMPLE TRUST. 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 trust, not being qualified by the settler, is left to the construction of law. It diffe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SILVA CAEDUA. By these words in England is understood every sort of wood, except gross wood of the age of twenty years. Bac. Ab. Tythes, C. SIMILITER, pleading. When the defendant's plea contains a direct contradiction of the declaration, and conclu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SIGNATURE, pract. contr. By signature is understood the act of putting down a man's name, at the end of an instrument, to attest its validity. The name thus written is also called a signature. 2. It is not necessary that a party should write his nam... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SIGN, measures. In angular measures, a sign is equal to thirty degrees. Vide Measure. SIGN, mer. law. A board, tin or other substance, on which is painted the name and business of a merchant or tradesman. 2. Every man has a right to adopt such a sig... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SIDE BAR RULES, Eng practice. Rules which were formerly moved for by attorneys on the side bar of the court; but now may be had of the clerk of the rules, upon a praecipe. These rules are, that the sheriff return his writ; that he bring in the body;... 阅读全文>>