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  • SUBNERVARE
    To ham-string by cutting the sinews of the legs and thighs. It was an old custom mere trices et impudi-cas mulieres subnervare. Wharton.
  • SUBNOTATIONS
    In the civil law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of law.
  • SUBORN
    In criminal law. To procure another to commit perjury. Steph. Crim. Law, 74.
  • SUBORNATION OF PERJURY
    In criminal law. The offense of procuring another to take such a false oath as would constitute perjury in the principal. See Stone v. State, 118 Ga. 705, 45 S. E. 630, 98 Am. St Rep. 145; State v. Fahey, 3 Pennewill (Del.) 594, 54 Ati. 690; State v. Geer, More...
  • SUBORNER
    One who suborns or procures another to commit any crime, particularly to commit perjury.
  • SUBPOENA
    The process by which the attendance of a witness is required is called a "subpoena." It is a writ or order directed to a person, and requiring his attendance at a particular time and place to testify as a witness. It may also require him to bring with him any More...
  • SUBREPTIO
    Let In the civil law. Obtaining gifts of escheat, etc., from the king by concealing the truth. Bell; Calvin.
  • SUBREPTION
    In French law. The fraud committed to obtain a pardon, title, or grant, by alleging facts contrary to truth.
  • SUBROGATION
    The substitution of one thing for another, or of one person into the place of another with respect to rights, claims, or securities. Subrogation denotes the putting a third person who has paid a debt in the place, of the creditor to whom he has paid it so. as that More...
  • SUBROGEE
    A person who is subrogated; one who succeeds to the rights of another by subrogation.
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