英文法律词典 S-80

STEWS¹, Eng. law., Places formerly² permitted in England to women of professed³ lewdness⁴, 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 by bathing; the word stews being derived⁵ from the old French estuves, stove, or hot bath. 3 Inst. 205.

STILLICIDIUM, civ. law. The rain water that falls from the roof or eaves of a house by scattered⁶ drops. When it is gathered into a spout⁷ it is called flumen.

2. Without the constitution of one or other of these servitudes, no proprietor⁸ can build so as to throw the rain that falls from his house directly on his neighbor's grounds; for it is a restriction⁹ upon all property, nemo pro-test immitere in alienum; and he who in building breaks through that res-traint, truly builds on another man's property; because to whomsoever the area belong's, to him also belongs whatever is above it: cujus est solum, ejas est usque ad caelum. 3 Burge on the Conf. of Laws, 405. Vide Servitus Stillicidii. Inst. 3, 2, 1; Dig. 8, 2, 2.

STINT¹⁰, Eng. law. The proportionable part of a man's cattle, which he may keep upon the common.

2. To use a thing without stint, is to use it without limit.

STIPULATED¹¹ DAMAGES, contracts. The sum agreed by the parties to be paid, on a breach¹² of a contract, by the party violating his engagement to the other.

2. It is difficult to distinguish, in some cases, between stipulated damages and a penalty; (q. v.) 3 Chitty's Commer. Law, 627; 2 Bos. & Pull. 346. The effect of inserting stipulated damages, either at law or equity¹³, a pears to be, that both parties must abide¹⁴ by the stipulation¹⁵, and the prescribed sum must be given. Holt, C. N. P. 46 Newl. Contr. 313; see 5 Taunt¹⁶. Rep. 247. Vide Damages, Liquidated¹⁷.