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SOKEMANS, Eng. law. Those who hold their land in socage. 2 Bl. Com. 100. SOLARES, Spanish law. Lots of ground. This term is frequently found in grants...

SOCIETE EN COMMENDITE. This term is borrowed from the laws of France, and is used in Louisiana; the societe en commendite, or partnership in commendam...

SLAVERY. The state or condition of a slave. 2. Slavery exists in most of the southern states. In Pennsylvania, by the act of March, 1780, for the grad...

SLANDERER. A calumniator, who maliciously and without reason imputes a crime or fault to another, of which he is innocent. 2. For this offence, when t...

SIRE. A title of honor given to kings or emperors in speaking or writing to them. SISTER. A woman who has the same father and mother with another, or ...

SINECURE. In the ecclesiastical law, this term is used to signify that an ecclesiastical officer is without a charge or cure. 2. In common parlance it...

SIMPLE TRUST. A simple trust corresponds with the ancient use, and is where property is simply vested in one person for the use of another, and the na...

SILVA CAEDUA. By these words in England is understood every sort of wood, except gross wood of the age of twenty years. Bac. Ab. Tythes, C. SIMILITER,...

SIGNATURE, pract. contr. By signature is understood the act of putting down a man's name, at the end of an instrument, to attest its validity. The...

SIGN, measures. In angular measures, a sign is equal to thirty degrees. Vide Measure. SIGN, mer. law. A board, tin or other substance, on which is pai...