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  • SLIPPA
    A stirrup. There is a tenure of land in Cambridgeshire by holding the sovereign's stirrup. Wharton.
  • SLOUGH
    An arm of a river, flowing between islands and the main-land, and separating the islands from one another. Sloughs have not the breadth of the main river, nor does the main body of water of the stream flow through them. Dunlieth & D. Bridge Co. v. Dubuque County, 55 Iowa, More...
  • SLOUGH SILVER
    A rent paid to the castle of Wigmore, in lieu of certain days' work in harvest, heretofore reserved to the lord from his tenants. Cowell.
  • SLUICEWAY
    An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice. Specifically, a trench constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs or lumber can be floated down to a coifvenient place of delivery. Webster. See Anderson v. Munch, 29 Minn. 416, 18 N. W. 192.
  • SMAKA
    In old records. A small, light vessel; a smack. CowelL
  • SMALL DEBTS COURTS
    The several county courts established by St 9 A 10 Vict c 96, for the purpose of bringing justice home to every man's door.
  • SMALL TITHES
    All personal and mixed tithes, and also hops, flax, saffrons, potatoes, and sometimes, by custom, wood. Otherwise called "privy tithes." 2 Steph. Comm. 726.
  • SMART-MONEY
    Vindictive or exemplary damages. See Brewer v. Jacobs (C. C.) 22 Fed. 224; Springer v. Somers Fuel Co., 196 Pa. 156, 46 Ati. 370; Day v. Wood-worth, 13 How. 371, 14 L. Ed. 181; Murphy v. Hobbs, 7 Colo. 541, 5 Pac. 119, 49 Am. Rep. 366.
  • SMOKE-FARTHINGS
    In old English law. An annual rent paid to cathedral churches; another name for the pentecostals or customary oblations offered by the dispersed inhabitants within a diocese, when they made their processions to the mother cathedral church. Cowell.
  • SMOKE-SILVER
    In English law. A sum paid to the ministers of divers parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. Blount
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