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  • SUITOR
    A party to a suit or action in court In its ancient sense, "suitor" meant one who was bound to attend the county court; also one who formed part of the secta.
  • SUITORS' DEPOSIT ACCOUNT
    Formerly suitors in the English court of chancery derived no income from their cash paid into court unless it was invested at their request and risk. Now, however, it is provided by the court of chancery (funds) act, 1872, that all money paid into court, and' not required by the More...
  • SUITORS' FEE FUND
    A fund in the, English court of chancery into which the fees of suitors In that court were paid, and out of which the salaries of various officers of the court were defrayed. Wharton.
  • SUITORS' FUND IN CHANCERY
    In England. A fund consisting of moneys which, having been paid into the court of chancery, are placed out for the benefit and better security of the suitors, including interest from the same. By St 82 & 88 Vict c. 91, i 4, the principal of this fund, amounting to More...
  • SULCUS
    In old English law. A small brook or stream of water. CowelL
  • SULLERY
    In old English law. A plow land. 1 Inst 5.
  • SUM
    In English law. A summary or abstract; a compendium; a collection. Several of the old law treatises are called "sums." Lord Hale applies the term to summaries of statute law. Burrill.
  • SUMAGE
    Toll for carriage on horseback. Cowell. Summa carita est facere justitiam singulis, et omni tempore quando neceesse fuerit. The greatest charity is to do justice to every one, and at any time whenever it may be necessary. 11 Coke, 70. Summa est lex quse pro religions facit. That is the More...
  • SUMMARY
    n. An abridgment; brief; compendium; also a short application to a court or judge, without the formality of a full proceeding. Wharton.
  • SUMMARY
    adj. Immediate; peremptory ; off-hand ;without a jury; provisional; statutory. -----Summary actions. In Scotch law. Those which are brought into court not by summons, but by petition, corresponding to summary proceedings in English courts. Bell; Brown. -------Summary conviction. See CONVICTION. --------Summary jurisdiction. See JURISDICTION.-----Summary procedure on bills of exchange. This More...
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