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  • SCRIBA
    Lat. A scribe; a secretary. Scriba regis, a king's secretary; a chancellor. Spelman. Scribere est agere. To write is to act Treasonable words set down in writing amount to overt acts of treason. 2 Rolle, 89; 4 Bl. Comm. 80; Broom, Max. 312, 967.
  • SCRIP
    Certificates of ownership, either absolute or conditional, of shares in a public company, corporate profits, etc. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1295. A scrip certificate (or shortly "scrip") is an acknowledgment by the projectors of a company or the issuers of a loan that the person named therein (or more More...
  • SCRIPT
    Where instruments are executed in part and counterpart, the original or principal Is so called. In English probate practice. A will, codicil, draft of will or codicil, or written instructions for the same. If the will Is destroyed, a copy or any paper embodying its contents becomes a script, even More...
  • SCRIPTORIUM
    In old records. A place in monasteries, where writing was done. Spelman. "SCRIPTUM. Lat. A writing; something written. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 60, ? 25. -Scripturn indentatum. A writing indented; an indenture or deed.-Scriptum obliara-toriunt. A writing obligatory. The technical name of a bond in old pleadings. Any writing under More...
  • SCRIVENER
    A writer; scribe; conveyancer. One whose occupation is to draw contracts, write deeds and mortgages, and prepare other species of written instruments. Also an agent to whom property is intrusted by others for the purpose of lending it out at an interest payable to his principal, and for a commission More...
  • SCROLL
    A mark Intended to supply the place of a seal, made with a pen or other Instrument of writing. A paper or parchment containing some writing, and rolled up so as to conceal it
  • SCROOP'S INN
    An obsolete law society, also called "Serjeants' Place," opposite to St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, London.
  • SCRUET-ROLL
    In old practice. A species of roll or record, on which the bail on habeas corpus was entered.
  • SCRUTATOR
    Lat . In old English law. A searcher or bailiff of a river; a water-bailiff, whose business was to look to the king's rights, as his wrecks, his flotsam, jetsam, water-strays, royal fishes. Hale, de Jure Mar. pars 1, c. 5.
  • SCUSSUS
    In old European law. Sha& en or beaten out; threshed, as grain. Spelman.
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