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  • SOLUM PROVINCIALE
    Lat In Roman law. The solum italicum (an extension of the old Agar Romanus) admitted full ownership, and of the application to it of usucapio; whereas the solum provinciale (an extension of the old Ager Publicus) admitted of a possessory title only, and of longi tempotis possessio only. Justinian abolished More...
  • SOLUTIO
    Lat In civil law. Payment, satisfaction, or release; any species of discharge of an obligation accepted as satisfactory by the creditor. The term refers not so much to the counting out of money as to the substance of the obligation. Dig. 46, 3, 54; Id. 50, 16, 176. -Solntio indebiti. More...
  • SOLUTIONS FEODI MILITIS PARLIAMENT OR FEODI BURGENSTS PARLIAMENTS
    Old writs whereby knights of the shire and burgesses might have recovered their wages or allowance if it had been refused. 35 Hen. VIII. c. 11.
  • SOLUTUS
    In tbe civil law. Loosed; freed from confinement; set at liberty. Dig. 50, 16, 48. In Seoteb praetiee. Purged. A term used in old depositions.
  • SOLVABILITY
    Fr. In French law. Ability to pay; solvency. Emerig. Traite des Assur. c. 8, | 15.
  • SOLVENCY
    Ability to pay; present ability to pay; ability to pay one's debts out of one's own present means. Marsh .v. Dunckel. 25 Hun (N. Y.) 109; Osborne v. Smith (C. C.) 18 Fed. 130; Larkin v. Hap-good, 56 Vt 601; Sterrett v. Third Nat Bank, 46 Hun (N. Y.) 26; More...
  • SOLVENDO
    Lat Paying. An apt word of reserving a rent In old conveyances. Co. Litt 47a.
  • SOLVENDO ESSE
    Lat. To be in a state of solvency; i. e., able to pay. Solvendo esse nemo intelUgitur nisi qnl solidnm potest solvere. No one is considered to be solvent unless he can pay all that he owes. Dig. 50, 16, 114.
  • SOLVENT
    A solvent person is one who is able to pay all his just debts in full out of his own present means. See Dig. 50, 16, 114. And see SOLVENCY.
  • SOLVERE
    Lat To pay; to comply with one's engagement; te do what one has undertaken to do; to release one's self from obligation, as by payment of a debt. Calvin. -Solvere pcanas. To pay the penalty.
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