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  • SOWMING AND ROWMING
    In Scotch law. Terms used to express the form by which the number of cattle brought upon a common by those having a servitude of pasturage may be justly proportioned to the rights of the different persons possessed of the servitude. Bell.
  • SOWNE
    In old English law. To be leviable. An old exchequer term applied to sheriff's returns. 4 Inst. 107; Cowell; Spelman.
  • SPADARIUS
    Lat A sword-bearer. Blount.
  • SPADONES
    Lat In the civil law. Impotent persons. Those who, on account of their temperament or some accident they have suffered, are unable to procreate, Inst 1, 11, 9; Dig. 1, 7, 2, L
  • SPARSIM
    Lat. Here and there; scattered; at intervals. For instance, trespass to realty by cutting timber sparsim (here and there) through a tract
  • SPATAE PLACITUM
    In bid English law. A court for the: speedy execution of justice upon military delinquents. Cowell.
  • SPEAK
    In practice. To argue. "The case was ordered to be spoke to again." 10 Mod. 107. See IMPARLANCE; SPEAKING WITH PROSECUTOR.
  • SPEAKER
    This is the official designation of the president or chairman of certain legislative bodies, particularly of the house, of representatives in the congress of the United States, of one or both branches of several of the state legislatures and of the two houses of the British parliament. The term "speaker," More...
  • SPEAKING DEMURRER
    See DEMURRER
  • SPEAKING ORDER
    See ORDER
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