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SUBSTANTIVE LAW
That part of the law which the courts are established to administer, as opposed to the rules according to which the substantive law Itself is administered. Thrt part of the law which creates, defines, and regulates rights, as opposed to adjective or remedial law, which prescribes the method of enforcing More...

That part of the law which the courts are established to administer, as opposed to the rules according to which the substantive law Itself is administered. Thrt part of the law which creates, defines, and regulates rights, as opposed to adjective or remedial law, which prescribes the method of enforcing rights or obtaining redress for their invasion. Less...
SUBSTITUTE
One appointed in the place or stead of another, to transact business for him; a proxy. A person hired by one who has been drafted into the military service of the country, to go to the front and serve In the army In his stead.

One appointed in the place or stead of another, to transact business for him; a proxy. A person hired by one who has been drafted into the military service of the country, to go to the front and serve In the army In his stead. Less...
SUBSTITUTED EXECUTOR
One appointed to act in the place of another executor upon the happening of a certain event; e. p., if the latter should refuse the office.

One appointed to act in the place of another executor upon the happening of a certain event; e. p., if the latter should refuse the office. Less...
SUBSTITUTED SERVICE
In English practice. Service of process made under authorization of the court upon some other person, when the person who should he served cannot be found or cannot be reached. In Amerioan law. Service of process upon a defendant in any manner, authorized by statute, other than personal service within More...

In English practice. Service of process made under authorization of the court upon some other person, when the person who should he served cannot be found or cannot be reached. In Amerioan law. Service of process upon a defendant in any manner, authorized by statute, other than personal service within the jurisdiction; as by publication, by mailing a copy to his last known address, or by personal service in another state. Less...
SUBSTITUTES
In Scotch law. The person flrst called or nominated in a tailzie {entailment of an estate upon a number of heirs in succession) is called the "institute" or "heir-institute;" the rest are called "substitutes."

In Scotch law. The person flrst called or nominated in a tailzie {entailment of an estate upon a number of heirs in succession) is called the "institute" or "heir-institute;" the rest are called "substitutes." Less...
SUBSTITUTIO HAEREDIS
Lat In Roman law, It was competent for a testator after instituting a hares (called the "hatres institutus") to substitute auother (called the "haeres substitutus") in his place in a certain event. If the event upon which the substitution was to take effect was the refusal of the instituted heir More...

Lat In Roman law, It was competent for a testator after instituting a hares (called the "hatres institutus") to substitute auother (called the "haeres substitutus") in his place in a certain event. If the event upon which the substitution was to take effect was the refusal of the instituted heir to accept the inheritance at all, then the substitution was called "vulgaris." (or common;) but if the event was the death of the infant (pupillus) after acceptance, and before attaining his majority, (of fourteen years if a male, and of twelve years if a female,) then the substitution was called "papillaris," (or for minors.) Brown. Less...
SUBSTITUTION
In the civil law. The putting one person in place of another; particularly, the act of a testator in naming a second devisee or legatee who is to take the bequest either on failure of the original devisee or legatee or after him. In Scotch law. The enumeration or designation More...

In the civil law. The putting one person in place of another; particularly, the act of a testator in naming a second devisee or legatee who is to take the bequest either on failure of the original devisee or legatee or after him. In Scotch law. The enumeration or designation of the heirs in a settlement of property. Substitutes in an entail are those heirs who are appointed in succession on failure of others. Less...
SUBSTITUTIONAL, SUBSTITUTIONARY
Where a will contains a gift of property to. a class of persons, with a clause providing that on the death of a member of the class before the period of distribution his share is to go to his issue, (if any,) so as to substitute them for him, the More...

Where a will contains a gift of property to. a class of persons, with a clause providing that on the death of a member of the class before the period of distribution his share is to go to his issue, (if any,) so as to substitute them for him, the gift to the issue is said to be substitutional or substitutionary: A bequest to such of the children of A. as shall be living at the testators death, with a direction that the issue of such as shall have died shall take the shares which their parents would have taken, if living at the testators death, is an example. Sweet. See Acken v. Osborn, 45 N. J. Eq. 377, 17 Atl. 707; In re De Laveaga's Estate, 119 Cal. 651, 51 Pac. 1074. Less...
SUBSTRACTION
In French law. The fraudulent appropriation of any property, but particularly of the goods of a decedent's estate.

In French law. The fraudulent appropriation of any property, but particularly of the goods of a decedent's estate. Less...
SUBTENANT
An under-tenant; one who leases all or a part of the rented premises from the original lessee for a term less than that held by the latter. Forrest v. Durnell. 86 Tex. 647, 26 S. W. 481.

An under-tenant; one who leases all or a part of the rented premises from the original lessee for a term less than that held by the latter. Forrest v. Durnell. 86 Tex. 647, 26 S. W. 481. Less...

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