Legal Term Dictionary

In old English law. Suit; attendance at court; the plaintiff's suit or following, i. e., the witnesses whom he was required, in tile ancient practice, to bring with him and produce in court, for the purpose of confirming his claim, before the defendant was put to the necessity of answering More...

In old English law. Suit; attendance at court; the plaintiff's suit or following, i. e., the witnesses whom he was required, in tile ancient practice, to bring with him and produce in court, for the purpose of confirming his claim, before the defendant was put to the necessity of answering the declaration. See 3 Bl. Comm. 295, 344; Bract, fol. 214a. A survival from this proceeding is seen in the formula still used at the end of declarations, "and therefore he brings his suit" (et inde producit sectam.) This word, in its secondary meaning, signifies suit in the courts; lawsuit -Secta ad curiam. A writ that lay against him who refused to perform his suit either to the county court or the court-baron. Cowell. -Secta ad farnam. In old English law. Suit due to a man's public oven or bake-house. 3 Bl. Comm. 235.-Secta ad jnsticiam f ac-iendam. In old English law. A service which a man is bound to perform by his fee.-Secta ad molendinnm. A writ which lay for the owner of a mill against the inhabitants of a place where such mill is situated, for not doing suit to the plaintiff's mill; that is, for not having their corn ground at it. Brown.-Secta ad torrale. In old English law. Suit due to a man's kiln or malt house. 3 Bl. Comm. 235. -Secta cnriae. In old English law. Suit of court; attendance at court. The service, incumbent upon feudal tenants, of attending the lord at his court, both to form a jury when required, and also to answer for their own actions when complained of.-Secta facienda per iUam qua? habet enieiam partem. A writ to compel the heir, who has the elder's part of the co-heirs, to perform suit and services for all the coparceners, Reg. Orig. 177. oo-Secta regalia. A suit so called by which all persons were bound twice in the year to attend in the sheriff's tourn, in order that they might be informed of things relating to the public peace. It was so called because the sheriff's tourn was the king's leet, and it was held in order that the people might be bound by oath to bear true allegiance to the king. Cowell.-Secta nnica tantnm facienda pro pluribus bssreditatibus. A writ for an heir who was distrained by the lord to do more suits than one, that he should be allowed to do one suit only in respect of the land of divers heirs descended to him. Cowell. Secta est pngna civilis $ siont actores armantnr aetionibns, et, quasi, gladiis aocinguntnr, ita rei mnninntnr excep-tionibns, et def endnntnr, quasi, clypeis. Hob. 20. A suit is a civil warfare; for as the plaintiffs are armed with actions, and, as it were, girded with swords, so the defendants are fortified with pleas, and are defended, as it were, by shields. Secta quad seripto nititur a scripto varlari non debet. Jenk. Cent. 65. A suit which is based upon a writing ought not to vary from'the writing. Less...

Suitors of court who, among the Saxons, gave their judgment or verdict in civil suits upon the matter of fact and law. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 22.

Suitors of court who, among the Saxons, gave their judgment or verdict in civil suits upon the matter of fact and law. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 22. Less...

In text-books, codes, statutes, and other juridical writings, the smallest distinct and numbered subdivisions are commonly called * "sections," sometimes "arti cles," and occasionally "paragraphs."

In text-books, codes, statutes, and other juridical writings, the smallest distinct and numbered subdivisions are commonly called * "sections," sometimes "arti cles," and occasionally "paragraphs." Less...

In American land law. A division or parcel of land, on the government survey, comprising one square mile or 640 acres. Each "township" (six miles square) is divided by straight lines into thirty-six sections, and these are again divided into half-sections and quarter-flections. The general and proper acceptation of the More...

In American land law. A division or parcel of land, on the government survey, comprising one square mile or 640 acres. Each "township" (six miles square) is divided by straight lines into thirty-six sections, and these are again divided into half-sections and quarter-flections. The general and proper acceptation of the terms Less...

A Writ which lay for a dowress, or one in wardship, to be free from suit of court Cowell.

A Writ which lay for a dowress, or one in wardship, to be free from suit of court Cowell. Less...

Lat In Roman law. Purchasers at auction, or public sales.

Lat In Roman law. Purchasers at auction, or public sales. Less...

Not spiritual; not ecclesiastical; relating to affairs of the present world. -Secular business. As used in Sunday laws; this term includes all forme of activity in the business affairs of life, the prosecution of a trade or employment and commercial dealings; such as the making of promissory notes,lending money, and More...

Not spiritual; not ecclesiastical; relating to affairs of the present world. -Secular business. As used in Sunday laws; this term includes all forme of activity in the business affairs of life, the prosecution of a trade or employment and commercial dealings; such as the making of promissory notes,lending money, and the like. See Lovejoy v. Whipple* 18 Vt. 383, 46 Am. Dec. 157; Finn v. Donahue, 35 Conn. 217; Allen v. Deming, 14 N. H. 139, 40 Am. Dec 179; Smith v. Foster, 41 N. H. 221.-Secular clergy. In ecclesiastical law, this term la applied to the parochial clergy, who perform their ministry in seculo (in the world), and who are thus distimniished from the monastic or "regular" clergy. Steph. Comm. 681, note. Less...

Lat. In the civil and common law. According to. Occurring in many phrases of familiar use, as follows: -Secundum ssqunm et bonum. According to what is |ust and right-Seoundum alio- gata et probata. According to what is alleged and proved; according to the allegations and proofs. 15 East, 81: Cloutman More...

Lat. In the civil and common law. According to. Occurring in many phrases of familiar use, as follows: -Secundum ssqunm et bonum. According to what is |ust and right-Seoundum alio- gata et probata. According to what is alleged and proved; according to the allegations and proofs. 15 East, 81: Cloutman v. Tunison, 1 Sumn. 375, Fed. Cas. No. 2,907.-Secundum artem. According to the art, trade, business, or science.-Secundum bonos mores. According to good usages; according to established custom; regularly; orderly.-Secundum eon-suetudinem manerii. According to the custom of the manor.-Secundum formam ebartss. According to the form of the charter, (deed.)-Secundum formam doni. According to the form of the gift or grant. See FORMEDON.-Secundum formam statuti. Ac-cording to the form of the statute.-Secundum legem oommuncm. According to the common law.-Secundum normam legis. According to the rule of law; by the intendment and rule of law.-Secundum regulam. According to the rule; by rule.-Secundum subjee-tam materiam. According to the subject-matter. 1 Bl. Comm. 229. All agreements must be construed secundum aubjectam materiam if the matter will bear it. 2 Mod. 80, arg. Secundum natnram est oommoda cuius que rei onm sequi, quern sequuntur inoommoda. It is according 'to nature that the advantages of anything should attach to him to whom the disadvantages attach. Dig. 50, 17, 10. Less...

To give security; to assure of payment, performance, or indemnity; to guaranty or make certain the payment of a debt or discharge of an obligation. One "secures" his creditor by giving him a lien, mortgage, pledge, or other security, to be nsed in case the debtor falls to make payment More...

To give security; to assure of payment, performance, or indemnity; to guaranty or make certain the payment of a debt or discharge of an obligation. One "secures" his creditor by giving him a lien, mortgage, pledge, or other security, to be nsed in case the debtor falls to make payment See Pennell v. Rhodes, 9 Q. B. 114; Ex parte Reynolds, 52 Ark. 330, 12 S. W. 670; Foot v. Webb, 59 Barb. (N. Y.) 52. Less...

A creditor who holds some special pecuniary assurance of payment of his debt, such as a mortgage or lien.

A creditor who holds some special pecuniary assurance of payment of his debt, such as a mortgage or lien. Less...