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  • SUERTE
    In Spanish law. A small lot of ground. Particularly, such a lot within the limits of a city or .town used for cultivation or pianting as a garden, vineyard or orchard. Building lots in towns and cities are called "solares." Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 554.
  • SUFFER
    To suffer an act to be done, by a person who can prevent it, is to permit or consent to it; to approve of it, and not to hinder it. It Implies a willingness of the mind. See In re Rome Planing Mill (C. C.) 96 Fed. 815; Wilson v. More...
  • SUFFERANCE
    Toleration; negative permission by not forbidding; passive consent ; license implied from the omission or neglect to enforce an adverse right. -Sufferance wharves. In English law. These are wharves in which goods may be landed before any duty is paid. They are appointed for the purpose by the commissioners of More...
  • SUFFERENTIA PACIS
    Lat. A grant or sufferance of peace or truce.
  • SUFFERING A RECOVERY
    A recovery was effected by the party wishing te convey the land suffering a fictitious action to tie brought against him by the party to whom the land was to be conveyed, (the demandant,) and allowing the demandant to recover a judgment against him for the land in question. The More...
  • SUFFICIENT
    As to sufficient "Consideration" and "Evidence," see those titles.
  • SUFFRAGAN
    Bishops who In former times were appointed to supply the place of others during their absence on embassies or other business were so termed. They were consecrated as other bishops were, and were' anciently called "chore piscopi" or "bishops of the county," in contradistinction to the regular bishops of the More...
  • SUFFRAGE
    A vote; the act of voting; the right or privilege of casting a vote at public elections. The last is the meaning of the term in such phrases as "the extension of the suffrage," "universal suffrage." etc. See Spitzer v. Fulton, 33 Misc. Rep. 257, 68 N. Y. Supp. 660.
  • SUFFRAGIUM
    Lat In Roman law. A vote; the right of voting in the assemblies of the people. Aid or influence used or promised to obtain some honor or office; the purchase of office. Cod. 4, 3.
  • SUGGESTIO FALSI
    Lat. Suggestion or representation of that which is false; false representation. To recite in a deed that a will was duly executed, when it was not, is suggestio falsi; and to conceal from the heir that the will was not duly executed is suppressio veri. 1 P. Wnis. 240.
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