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  • SOLVIT
    Lat He paid; paid. 10 East 206. -Solvit ad diem. He paid at the day. The technical name of the plea, in an action of debt on bond, that the defendant paid the money on the day mentioned in the condition. 1 Archb. N. P. 220, 221.~-Solvit ante diem. A More...
  • SOMERSETT'S CASE
    A celebrated decision of the English king's bench, in 1771, (20 How. St. Tr. 1,) that slavery no longer existed in England in any form, and could not for the future exist on English soil, an<| that any person brought into England as a slave could not be thence removed More...
  • SOMMATION
    In French law. A demand served by a huissier, by which one Party calls upon another to do or not to do a certain thing. This document has for its object to establish that upon a certain date the demand was made. Arg. FT. Merc. Law, 574.
  • SOMNAMBULISM
    Sleep-walking. Whether this condition is anything more than a co-operation of the voluntary muscles with the thoughts which occupy the mind during sleep is not settled by physiologists. Wharton.
  • SOMPNOUR
    In ecclesiastical law, an officer of the ecclesiastical courts whose duty was to serve citations or process.
  • SON
    An immediate male descendant;. the, correlative of "father." Technically a word of purchase, unless explained. Its meaning may be extended by construction to include more remote descendants, such as a grandchild, and also to include an illegitimate male child, though the presumption Is against this* See Flora v. Anderson More...
  • SON-IN-LAW
    The husband of one's daughter.
  • SONTAGE
    A tax of forty shillings anciently laid upon every knight's fee. Cowell;
  • SONTICUS
    Lat In the civil law. Hurtful; Injurious; hindering; excusing or justifying delay. Morbus sonticus is any illness pf so serious a nature as to prevent a defendant from appearing in court and to give him a valid excuse. Calyin. o:
  • SOON
    If there is no time specified for the performance of an act or if it is specified that it is to be performed soon, the law implies that it is to be performed within o a reasonable time. Sanford v. Shephard, 14 Kan. 232.
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