日期：2008-03-26 SUR CUI ANTE DIVORTIUM. The name of a writ issued in favor of the heir of the wife, where the hushand alienated the wife's lands, during the coverture, and afterwards they were divorced and she died, to recover the lands from the alienee. Vide Cui a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUPRA PROTEST. Under protest. Vide Acceptance supra protest; dcceptor supra protest; Bills of Exchange. SUPREMACY. Sovereign dominion, authority, and preeminence; the highest state. In the United States, the supremacy resides in the people, and is e... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUPERVISOR. 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 affidavit, which is an additional affidavit to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUPERIOR. One who has a right to command; one who holds a superior rank; as, a soldier is bound to obey his superior. 2. In estates, some are superior to others; an estate entitled to a servitude or easement over another estate, is called the superi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUPER ALTUM MARE. Upon the high sea. Vide High Seas. SUPER VISUM CORPORE. Upon view of the body. When an inquest is held over a body found dead, it must be super visum corpore. Vide Coroner; Inquest. SUPERCARGO, mar. law. A person specially employed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TO SUMMON, practice. The act by which a defendant is notified by a compepetent officer, that an action has been instituted against him, and that he is required to answer to it at a time and place named. This is done either by giving the defendant a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUITE. Those persons, who by his authority, follow or attend an ambassador or other public minister. 2. In general the suite of a minister are protected from arrest, and the inviolability of his person is communicated to those who form his suite. Va... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUGGESTIVE INTERROGATION. This phrase has been used by some writers to signify the same thing as leading question. (q. v.) 2 Benth. on Ev. b. 3, c. 3. It is used in the French law. Vide Question. SUI JURIS. One who has all the rights to which a free... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TO SUE. To prosecute or commence legal proceedings for the purpose of recovering a right. SUFFRAGE, government. Vote; the act of voting. 2. The right of suffrage is given by the constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 2, to the electors in eac... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUCCESSION, in Louisiana. The right and transmission of the rights an obligations of the deceased to his heirs. Succession signifies also the estate, rights and charges which a person leaves after his death, whether the property exceed the charges,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUBSTITUTION, chancery practice. This takes place in a case where a creditor has a lien on two different parcels of land, and another creditor has a subsequent lien on one only of the parcels, and the prior creditor elects to have his whole demand o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUB SILENTIO. Under silence, without any notice being taken. Sometimes passing a thing sub silentio is evidence of consent. See Silence. SUBSTANCE, evidence. That which is essential; it is used in opposition to form. 2. It is a general rule, that on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUBSCRIBING WITNESS. One who subscribes his name to a writing in order to be able at a future time to prove its due execution; an attesting witness. 2. In order to make a good subscribing witness, it is requisite he Should sign his name to the instr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUBPOENA, chancery practice. A mandatory writ or process, directed to and requiring one or more persons to appear at a time to come, and answer the matters charged against him or them; the writ of subpoena was originally a process in the courts of c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUB MODO. Under a qualification; a legacy may be given sub modo, that is, subject to a condition or qualification. SUBNOTATIONS, civ. law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUBJECTION. The obligation of one or more persons to act at the discretion, or according to the judgment and will of others. 2. Subjection is either private or public. By the former is meant the subjection to the authority of private persons; as, of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 SUBALTERN. A kind of officer who exercises his authority under the superintendence and control of a superior. TO SUBDIVIDE. To divide a part of a thing which has already been divided. For example, when a person dies leaving children, and grandchildr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STUPIDITY, med. jur. That state of the mind which cannot perceive and embrace the data presented to it by the senses; and therefore the stupid person can, in general, form no correct judgment. It is a want of the perceptive powers. Ray, Med. Jur. c.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STRICT SETTLEMENT. When lands are settled to the parent for life, and after his death to his first and other sons in tail, and trustees are interposed to preserve the contingent remainders, this is called a strict settlement. STRICTISSIMI JURIS. The... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STRANGER , persons, contracts. This word has several significations. 1. A person born out of the United States; but in this sense the term alien is more properly applied, until he becomes naturalized. 2. A person who is not privy to an act or contra... 阅读全文>>