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  • STIPENDIARY ESTATES
    Estates granted in return for services, generally of a military kind. 1 Steph. Comm. 174.
  • STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATES
    In English law. Paid magistrates; appointed in London and some other cities and boroughs, and having In general the powers and jurisdiction of justices of the peace.
  • STIPENDIUM
    Lat In the civil law. The pay of a soldier; wages; stipend. Calvin.
  • STIPES
    Lat In old English law. Stock; a stock; a source of descent or title. Communis stipes, the common stock. Fleta, lib. 6, c. 2.
  • STIPITAL
    Relating to stirpes, roots, or stocks. "Stipital distribution" of property is distribution per stirpes; that is, by right of representation.
  • STIPULATED DAMAGE
    Liquidated damage, (q. v.)
  • STIPULATIO
    Lat. In the Roman law, stipulatio was the verbal contract (verbis obligatio,) and was the most solemn and formal of all the contracts in that system of jurisprudence. It was entered Into by question and corresponding answer thereto, by the parties, both being present at the same time, and usually More...
  • STIPULATION
    A material article in an agreement. In practice. An engagement or undertaking In writing, to do a certain act; as to try a cause at a certain time. 1 Burrill, Pr. 889. The name "stipulation" is familiarly given to any agreement made by the attorneys engaged on opposite sides of More...
  • STIPULATOR
    In the civil law. The party who asked the question in the contract of stipulation; the other party, or he who answered, being called the "promissor." But, in a more general sense, the term was applied to both the parties. Calvin.
  • STIRPS
    Lat A root or stock of descent or title. Taking property by right of representation is called "succession per stirpes," In opposition to taking in one's own right or as a principal, which is termed "taking per capita." See Rotmanskey v. Helss, 86 Md. 633, 39 Atl. 415
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