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  • SPONDES? SPONDEO
    Lat. Do you undertake? I do undertake. The most common form of verbal stipulation in the Roman law. Inst 3, 16, L Spondet peritiam artis. He promises the skill of his art; he engages to do the work in a skillful or workmanlike manner. 2 Kent, Comm. 588. Applied to More...
  • SPONSALIA, STIPULATIO SPONSA-LITIA
    Lat In the civil law. Espousal; betrothal; a reciprocal promise of future marriage.
  • SPONSIO
    Lat In the civil law. An engagement or undertaking; particularly such as was made in the form of an answer to a formal interrogatory by the other party. Calvin. An engagement to pay a certain sum of money to the successful party in a cause. Calvin. -Sponsio judioialis. In Roman More...
  • SPONSIONS
    In international law. Agreements or engagements made by certain public officers (as generals or admirals In time of war) in behalf of their governments, either without authority or in excess of the* authority under which they purport to be made, and which therefore require an express or tacit ratification.
  • SPONSOR
    A surety; one who makes a promise or gives security for another, particularly a godfather In baptism. . In tbe civil law. One who intervenes for another voluntarily and without being requested.
  • SPONTE OBLATA
    Lat A free gift or present to the crown. Sponto Tirana mnlier f ngiens et adnl-tera facta, dote sna oareat, nisi sponat sponte retracts. Co. Litt 82b. Let a woman leaving her husband of her own accord, and committing adultery, lose her dower, unless taken back by her husband of More...
  • SPORTULA
    Lat In Roman law. A largess, dole, or present; a pecuniary donation; an official perquisite;, something over and above the ordinary fee allowed by law. Inst 4, 6, 24.
  • SPOUSALS
    In old English law. Mutual promises to marry.
  • SPOUSE-BREACH
    In old English law. Adultery. Cowell.
  • SPRING
    A fountain of water; an issue ef water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of Its issue. Webster. Ay natural chasm in which water has collected, and from which it either is lost by percolation or rises in a defined channel. Furner v. 8eabury, 135 More...
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