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  • STABILIA
    A writ called by that name, founded on a custom In Normandy, that where a man in power claimed lands in the possession of an inferior, he petitioned the prince that it might be put into his hands till the right was decided whereupon he had this writ Wharton. Stabit More...
  • STABLE-STAND
    In forest law. One of the four evidences or presumptlops whereby a man was convicted of an intent to steal the king's deer in the forest. This was when a man was found at his standing in the forest with a cross-bow or long-bow bent, ready to shoot at any More...
  • STABULARIUS
    Lat. In the civil law. A stable-keeper. Dig. 4, 9, 4, 1.
  • STACHIA
    In old records. A dam or head made to stop a water-course. Cowell.
  • STAFF-HERDING
    The following of cattle within a forest.
  • STAGE-RIGHT
    is a word which it has been attempted to introduce as a substitute for "the right of representation and performance," but it can hardly be said to be an accepted term of English or American law. Sweet
  • STAGIARIUS
    A resident. Cowell.
  • STAGNUM
    In old English law. A pool, or pond. Co. Litt 5a; Johnson v. Rayner, 6 Gray (Mass.) 110.
  • STAKE
    A deposit made to answer an event as on a wager. See Harris v. White, 81 N. Y. 539; Porter v. Day, 71 Wis. 296, 37 N. W. 259; Mohr v. Miesen, 47 Minn. 228, 49 N. W. 862. -Stakeholder primarily means a person with whom money is deposited pending More...
  • STALE
    In Saxon law. Larceny. Wharton.
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