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  • SEDUCING TO LEAVE SERVICE
    An injury for which a master may have an action on the case.
  • SEDUCTION
    The act of a man in enticing a woman to commit unlawful sexual intercourse with him, by means of persuasion, solicitation, promises, bribes, or other means without the employment of force. In order to constitute seduction, the defendant must use insinuating arts to overcome the opposition of the seduced, and More...
  • SEE
    The circuit of a bishop's Jurisdiction ; or his office or dignity, as being bishop-of a given diocese.
  • SEEN
    This word, when written by tbe drawee on a bill of exchange, amounts to an acceptance by the law merchant Spear v. Pratt 2 Hill (N. Y.) 582, V- Am. Dec. 600^ Barnet v. Smith, 30 N. H. 256, 64 Am. Dec. 290; Peterson v. Hubbard, 28 Mich. 197.
  • SEIGNIOR
    In its general signification, means "lord," but in law it is particularly applied to the lord of a fee or of a manor; and tbe fee, dominions, or manor of a seignior is thence termed a "seigniory," i, e., a lordship. He who is a lord, but of no manor, More...
  • SEIGNIORAGE
    A royalty or prerogative of the sovereign, whereby an allowance of gold and silver, brought in the. mass to be exchanged for coin, is claimed. Cowell! Mintage; the charge for coining bullion into money at the mint.
  • SEIGNIORESS
    A female superior.
  • SEIGNIORY
    In English law. A lordship; a manor. The rights of a lord, as such, in lands.
  • SEISI
    In old English law. Seised; possessed.
  • SEISINA
    L. Lat Seisin. Seisina faoit stipitom. Seisin makea the stock. 2 BL Comm. 209; Broom, Max. 525, 52a
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