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  • SMUGGLING
    The offense of importing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed Indifferently either upon the excise or customs revenue. Wharton.
  • SMUGGLE
    The act with intent to defraud, of bringing into the United States, or with like intent attempting to bring into the United States, dutiable articles, without passing the same, or the package containing the same, through the custom-house, or submitting them to the officers of the revenue for examination. 18 More...
  • SNOTTERING SILVER
    A small duty which was paid by servile tenants in Wy-legh to the abbot of Colchester. Cowell.
  • SO
    This term is sometimes the equivalent of "hence," or "therefore," and it is thus understood whenever what follows is an illustration of, or conclusion from, what has gone before. Clem v. fcftate, 33 Ind. 431.
  • SO HELP YOU GOD
    The formula, at the end of a common oath.
  • SOBRE
    Span. Above; over; upon. Ruis v. Chambers, 15 Tex. 586, 592.
  • SOBRE-JUEZES
    In Spanish law. Superior judges. Las Partidas, pt 3, tit 4, L L
  • SOBRINI AND SOBRINAE
    Lat In the civil law. The children of cousins gerinan in general.
  • SOC, SOK, OR SOKA
    In Saxon law. Jurisdiction; a power or privilege to administer justice and execute the laws; also a shire, circuit, or territory. Cowell. ,
  • SOCA
    A seigniory or lordship, enfranchised by the king, with liberty of holding a court of his socmen or socagers; i. e., his tenants.
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