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  • STREAM
    A current of water; a body of flowing water. The word, in its ordinary tfense, includes rivers. But Callis defines a stream "a current of waters running over the level at random, and not kept in with banks or walls." Call. Sew. ?83,1 133. See Munson v. Hungerford, 6 Barb. More...
  • STREAMING FOR TIN
    The process of working tin in Cornwall and Devon. The right to stream must not be exercised so as to interfere with the rights of other private Individuals; e. g. either by withdrawing or by polluting or choking up the water-courses or waters of others; and the statutes 23 Hen. More...
  • STREET
    An urban way or thoroughfare; a road or public way in a city, town, or village, generally paved, and lined or intended to be lined by houses on each side. See U. S. v. Bain, 24 Fed. Cas. 943; Brace v. New York Cent R. Co., 27 N. Y. 271; More...
  • STREIGHTEN
    In the old books. To narrow or restrict, "the habendum should not streighten the devise." 1 Leon. 58.
  • STREPITUS
    In old records. Estrepement or strip; a species of waste or destruction of property. Spelman.
  • STREPITUS JUDICIALIS
    Turbulent conduct in a court of justice. Jacob.
  • STRICT
    As to strict "Construction," "Foreclosure," and "Settlement," see those titles.
  • STRICTI JURIS
    Lat. Of strict right or law; according to strict law. "A license is a thing stricti juris; a privilege which a man does not possess by his own right but it is conceded to him as an indulgence, and therefore it is to be strictly observed." 2 Rob. Adm. 117.
  • STRICTISSIMI JURIS
    Lat. Of the strictest right or law. "Licenses being matter of special indulgence, the application of them was formerly strictissimi juris." 1 Edw. Adm. 328.
  • STRICTO JURE
    Lat. In strict law. 1 Kent Comm. 65.
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