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  • SEDE PLENA.
    Lat The see being filled. A phrase used when a bishop's see is not vacant
  • SEDENTE CURIA
    Lat. The court sitting ; during the sitting of the court
  • SEDERUNT, ACTS OF
    ACTS OF. In Scotch law. Certain ancient ordinances of the court of session, conferring upon the courts power to establish general rules of practice. Bell.
  • SEDES
    Lat. A see; the dignity of a bishop. 3 Steph. Comm. 65.
  • SEDGE FLAW
    like "sea-shore" imports a tract of land below high-water mark. Church v. Meeker, 84 Conn* 421.
  • SEDITION
    An insurrectionary movement tending towards treason, but wanting an overt act; attempts made by meetings or speeches, or by publications, to disturb the tranquillity of the state. The distinction between "sedition" and "treason" consists in this: that though the ultimate object of sedition is a violation of the public peace, More...
  • SEDUCE
    To entice a woman to the commission of fornication or adultery, by persuasion, solicitation, promises, bribes, or otherwise: to corrupt; to debauch. The word "seduce," when used with reference to the conduct of a man towards a woman, has a precise and determinate signification, and "evi termini*' implies the commission More...
  • SEDUCING TO LEAVE SERVICE
    An injury for which a master may have an action on the case.
  • SEDUCTION
    The act of a man in enticing a woman to commit unlawful sexual intercourse with him, by means of persuasion, solicitation, promises, bribes, or other means without the employment of force. In order to constitute seduction, the defendant must use insinuating arts to overcome the opposition of the seduced, and More...
  • SEE
    The circuit of a bishop's Jurisdiction ; or his office or dignity, as being bishop-of a given diocese.
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