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  • SIC
    Lat Thus; so; In such manner. Sie omim debere qmem mellorem agmm snnm faoere no vieini deteriorem fadat. Every one ought so to improve his land as not to injure his neighbor's. 3 Kent, Comm. 441. A rule of the Roman law. Sie interpretandnm est nt verba ae-eipiantnr enm effeotn. More...
  • SIC SUBSCRIBITUR
    Lat In Scotch practice. So it is subscribed. Formal words at the end of depositions, immediately preceding the signature. 1 How. State Tr. 1379. Sie ntere tno nt aHonnm non lsedas. Use your own property in such a manner as not to injure that of another. 9 Coke, 59; 1 More...
  • SICH
    A little current of water, which is dry in summer; a water furrow or gutter. Cowell.
  • SICIUS
    A sort of money current among the ancient English, of the value of 2d
  • SICKNESS
    Disease; malady; any morbid condition of the body (including insanity) which, for the time being, hinders or prevents the organs from normally discharging their several functions. L. R. 8 Q. B. 295.
  • SICUT ALIAS
    Lat. As at another time, or heretofore. This was a second writ sent out when the first was not executed. Cowell.
  • SICUT ME DEUS ADJUVET
    Lat So help me God. Fleta, 1. 1, c 18 Stent natura nil faoit per saltnm, ita moo lex. Co. Litt. 238. In the same way as nature does nothing by a bound, so neither does the law.
  • SIDE
    The same court is sometimes said to have different sides; that is, different provinces or fields of jurisdiction. Thus, an admiralty court may have an "instance side/' distinct from its powers as a prize court; the "crown side," (criminal jurisdiction) is to be distinguished from the "plea side," (civil jurisdiction;) More...
  • SIDE-BAR RULES
    In English practice. There are some rules which the courts authorize their officers to grant as a matter of course without formal application being made to them in open court and these are technically termed "side-bar rules," because formerly they were moved for by the attorneys at the side bar More...
  • SIDE REPORTS
    A term sometimes applied to unofficial volumes or series of reports, as contrasted with those prepared by the official reporter of the court, or to collections of cases omitted from the official reports.
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