法律英语大全

SERVITUDES, NATURAL, civil law. Those servitudes which arise in consequence of the nature of the soil. 2. By law the inferior heritages, are submitted...

SERVICE, contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2. In cases of seduction, the gist of the action is not injury which the seducer has inflicte...

SERVANTS. In Louisiana they are divided into free servants and slaves. See Slaves; Slavery. 2. Free servants are, in general, all free persons who let...

SEQUESTRATOR. One to whom a sequestration is made. 2. A depositary of this kind cannot exonerate himself from the care of the thing sequestered in his...

SEQUESTRATION, Louisiana practice. The Code of Practice in civil cases in Louisiana, defines and makes the following provisions on the subject of sequ...

SEPULCHRE. The place where a corpse is buried. The violation of sepulchres is a misdemeanor at common law. Vide Dead bodies. TO SEQUESTER, civil and e...

SEPARALITER. Separately. 2. This word is sometimes used in indictments to show that the defendants are charged separately with offences, which, withou...

SENATOR, government. One who is a member of a senate. 2. No person shall be a senator [of the national senate] who shall not have attained the age of ...

SEMPER PARATUS. The name of a plea by which the defendant alleges that he has always been ready to perform what is demanded of him. 3 Bl. Com. 303. Th...

SELECTMEN. The name of certain officers in several of the United States, who are invested by the statutes of the several states with various powers. S...