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STATEMENT, pleading and in practice. In the courts of Pennsylvania, by the act to regulate arbitrations and proceedings in courts of justice, passed M...

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 ...

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 whic...

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, unex...

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 i...

SPONSALIA, or STIPULATIO SPONSALITIA. A promise lawfully made between persons capable of marrying each other, that at some future time they will marry...

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 ...

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 d...

SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE, remedies. The actual accomplishment of a contract by the party bound to fulfil it. 2. Many contracts are entered into by parties...

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...