SUPERVISOR¹. An overseer; a surveyor.

2. There are officers who bear this name whose duty it is to take care of the highways.

SUPPLEMENTAL. That which is added to a thing to complete it as a supplemental affidavit², which is an additional affidavit to make out a case; a supplemental bill. (q. v.)

SUPPLEMENTAL BILL, equity³ plead. A bill already filed to supply some defect in the original bill. See Bill supplemental.

SUPPLICAVIT, Eng. law. The name of a writ⁴ issuing out of the king's bench or chancery, for taking sureties of the peace; it is commonly directed to the justices of the peace, when they are averse⁵ to acting⁶ in the affair in their judicial⁷ capacity. 4 Bl. Com. 233; vide Vin. Ab. h, t.; Com. Dig. Chancery, 4 R.; Id. Forcible Entry, D 16, 17.

SUPPLICIUM, civil law. A corporal punishment ordained⁸ by law; the punishment of death, so called because it was customary to accompany the guilty man to the place of execution and there offer supplications for him.

SUPPLIES, Eng. Law. Extraordinary grants to the king by parliament, to supply the exigencies⁹ of the state. Jacob's Law Dict. h. t.

SUPPORT. The right of support is an easement which one man, either by contract or prescription¹⁰, enjoys, to rest the joists or timbers of his house upon the wall of an adjoining building, owned by another person. 3 Kent, Com. 435. Vide Lois des Bat. part. 1, c. 3, s. a. 1, §T; Party wall.

SUPPRESSIO VERI. Cocealment of truth.

2. In general a suppression of the truth, when a party is bound to disclose it, vitiates a contract. In the contract of insurance a knowledge of the facts is required to enable the underwriter to calculate the chances and form a due estimate of the risk; and, in this contract perhaps more than any other, the parties are required to represent every thing with fairness. 1 Bla. Rep. 594; 3 Burr. 1809.

3. Suppressio veri as well as suggestio falsi is a ground to rescind¹¹ an agreement, or at least not to carry it into execution. 3 Atk. 383; Prec. Ch. 138; 1 Fonb. Eq. c. 2, s. 8; 1 Ball & Beatty, 241; 3 Munf. 232 1 Pet. 383; 2 Paige, 390 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 3841. Vide Concealment¹²; Mis-representation; Representationl: Suggestio falsi.