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  • SCOTCH MARRIAGES
    See GRETNA GREEN.
  • SCOTCH PEERS
    Peers of the kingdom of Scotland; of these sixteen are elected to parliament by the rest and represent the whole' body. They are elected for one parliament only.
  • SCOTS
    In English law. Assessments by commissioners of sewers.
  • SCOTTARE
    To pay scot, tax, or customary dues. Cowell.
  • SCOUNDREL
    An approbious epithet, implying rascality, villainy, or a want of honor or integrity. In slander, this word is not actionable per se. 2 Bouv. Inst. 2250.
  • SCRAMBLING POSSESSION
    See POSSESSION.
  • SCRAWL
    A word used in some of the United States for scrowl or scroll. "The word 'seal/ written in a scrawl attached to the name of an obligor, makes the instrument a specialty." Comerford v. Cobb, 2 Fla. 418.
  • SCRIBA
    Lat. A scribe; a secretary. Scriba regis, a king's secretary; a chancellor. Spelman. Scribere est agere. To write is to act Treasonable words set down in writing amount to overt acts of treason. 2 Rolle, 89; 4 Bl. Comm. 80; Broom, Max. 312, 967.
  • SCRIP
    Certificates of ownership, either absolute or conditional, of shares in a public company, corporate profits, etc. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1295. A scrip certificate (or shortly "scrip") is an acknowledgment by the projectors of a company or the issuers of a loan that the person named therein (or more More...
  • SCRIPT
    Where instruments are executed in part and counterpart, the original or principal Is so called. In English probate practice. A will, codicil, draft of will or codicil, or written instructions for the same. If the will Is destroyed, a copy or any paper embodying its contents becomes a script, even More...
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