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  • SEX
    The distinction between male and female; or the property or character by which an animal is male or female. Webster.
  • SEXAGESIMA SUNDAY
    In ecclesiastical law. The second Sunday before Lent being about the sixtieth day before Easter.
  • SEXHINDENI
    In Saxon law. The middle thanes, valued at 600s.
  • SEXTANS
    Lat. In Roman law. A subdivision of the as, containing two uncicae; the proportion of two-twelfths, or one-sixth. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note.
  • SEXTARY
    In old records. An ancient measure of liquids, and of dry commodities; a quarter or seam. Spelman.
  • SEXTERY LANDS
    Lands given to a church or religious house for maintenance of a sexton or sacristan. Cowell.
  • SEXTUS DECRETALTUM
    Lat. The sixth (book) of the decretals; the sext, or sixth decretal. So called because appended, in the body of the canon law, to the five hooks of the decretals of Gregory IX.; it consists of a collection of supplementary decretals, and was published A. D. 1298, Butl. Hor. Jur. More...
  • SEXUAL INSTINCT, INVERSION AND PERVERSION OF
    See INSANITY; PEDERASTY; SODOMY.
  • SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
    Carnal copulation of male and female, Implying actual penetration of the organs of the latter, State v. Frazier, 54 Kan. 719, 39 Pac. 822.
  • SHACK
    In English law. The straying and escaping of cattle out of the lands of their owners into other uninclosed land; an intercommoning of cattle. 2 H. Bl. 416. It sometimes happens that a number of adjacent fields, though held in severalty, i. e., by separate owners, and cultivated separately, are, More...
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