日期：2008-03-26 STORES. the victuals and provisions collected together for the subsistence of a ship's company, of a camp, and the like. STOUTHRIEFF, Scotch law. Formerly this word included in its signification every species of theft, accompanied with violence to t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STOPPAGE IN TRANSITU, contracts. This is the name of that act of a vendor of goods, upon a credit, who, on learning that the buyer has failed, resumes the possession of the goods, while they are in the hands of a carrier or middle-man, in their tran... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STIRPES, descents. The root, stem, or stock of a tree. Figuratively, it signifies, in law, that person from whom a family is descended, and also the kindred or family. 2. It is chiefly used in estimating the several interests of the different kindre... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STIPULATION, contracts. In the Roman law, the contract of stipulation was made in the following manner, namely; the person to whom the promise was to be made, proposed a question to him from whom it was to proceed, fully expressing tho nature and ex... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STEWS, Eng. law., Places formerly permitted in England to women of professed lewdness, and who, for hire, would prostitute their bodies to all comers. 2. These places were so called because the dissolute persons who visited them prepared themselves... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STEP-DAUGHTER. In Latin privigna, is the daughter of one's wife, or of one's hushand. STEP-FATHER. In Latin vitricus, is the hushand of one's mother who is not the father of the person spoken of. STEP-MOTHER. In Latin noverca, is the wife of one's f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STAYING PROCEEDINGS. The suspension of an action. 2. Proceedings are stayed absolutely or conditionally. 3. - 1. They are peremptorily stayed when the plaintiff is wholly incapaci-tated from suing; as, for example, when the plaintiff is not the hold... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STATUTE MERCHANT , English law. A security entered before the mayor of London, or some chief warden of a city, in pursuance of 13 Ed. 1. stat. 3, c. 1, whereby the lands of the debtor are conveyed to the creditor, till out of the rents and profits o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STATUS. The condition of persons. It also means estate, because it signifies the condition or circumstances in which the owner stands with regard to his property. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1689. STATUTE. The written will of the legislature, solemnly expresse... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STATEMENT, pleading and in practice. In the courts of Pennsylvania, by the act to regulate arbitrations and proceedings in courts of justice, passed March 21, 1806, 4 Smith's Laws of Penn. 828, it is enacted, that in all cases where a suit may be br... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STATE, condition of persons. This word has various acceptations. If we inquire into its origin, it will be found to come from the Latin status, which is derived from the verb stare, sto, whence has been made statio, which signifies the place where a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 STARE DECISIS. To abide or adhere to decided cases. 2. It is a general maxim that when a point has been settled by decision, it forms a precedent which is not afterwards to be departed from. The doctrine of stare decisis is not always to be relied u... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 STALE DEMAND. A stale demand is a claim which has been for a long time undemanded; as, for example, where there his been a delay of twelve years, unexplained. 3 Mason, 161. STAMP, revenue. An impression made on paper, by order of the government, whi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SPRINGING USE, estates. One to arise on a future event, when no preceding estate is limited, and does not take effect in derogation of any preceding interest. Example: a grant is made to A in fee, to the use of B in fee, after the fourth of July; no... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SPONSALIA, or STIPULATIO SPONSALITIA. A promise lawfully made between persons capable of marrying each other, that at some future time they will marry. See Espousals; Ersk. Inst. B. 1, t. 6, n. 3. SPONSIONS, international law. Agreements or engageme... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SPENDTHRIFT. By the Rev. Stat. of Vermont, tit. 16, c. 65, s. 9, spendthrift is defined to be a person who by excessive drinking) gaming, idleness or debauchery of any kind, shall so spend, waste, or lessen his estate as to expose himself or his fam... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SPECIMEN. A sample; a part of something by which the other may be known. 2. The act of congress of July 4, 1836, section 6, requires the inventor or discoverer of an invention or discovery to accompany his petition and specification for a patent wit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE, remedies. The actual accomplishment of a contract by the party bound to fulfil it. 2. Many contracts are entered into by parties to fulfil certain things, and then the contracting parties neglect or refuse to fulfil their engag... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SPECIAL TRUST. A special trust, is one where a trustee is interposed for the execution of some purpose particularly pointed out, and is not, as in the case of a simple trust, a mere passive depositary of the estate, but is required to exert himself... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-24 SPECIAL PLEA IN BAR. One which advances new matter. It differs from the general in this, that the latter denies some material allegation, but never advances new matter. Gould on Pl. c. 2, 38. SPECIAL PLEADER, Engl. practice. A special pleader is a l... 阅读全文>>