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  • SEIZURE
    In practice. The act performed by an officer of the law, under the authority and exigence of a writ in taking into the custody of the law the property, real or personal, of a person against whom the judgment of a competent court has passed, condemning him to pay a More...
  • SELDA
    A shop, shed, or stall in a market; a wood of sallows or willows; also a sawpit. Co. Litt 4.
  • SELECT COUNCIL
    The name given, in some states, to the upper house or branch of the council of a city.
  • SELECTI JUDICES
    Lat In Roman law. Judges who were selected very much Jifce our juries. They were returned by the pitetor, drawn by lot, subject to be challenged, and sworn. 3 Bl. Comm. 366.
  • SELECTMEN
    The name of certain municipal officers, bi the New England states, elected by the towns to transact their general public business, and possessing certain ?executive powers. See Pelch v. Weare, 69 N. H. 617, 45 Atl. 59L
  • SELF-DEFENSE
    In criminal law, "She protection of one's person or property against some injury attempted by another. The right of such protection. An excuse for the ouse of force in resisting an attack on tne person, and* especially for killing an assailant See Whart Crim. Law, 1019, 102a
  • SELF-MURDER, OR SELF-SLAUGHTER
    See SUICIDE.
  • SELF-REGARDING EVIDENCE
    Evidence which either serves or disserves the party is so called. This species of evidence is either self-serving (which is not in general -receivable) or self-disserving, which is invariably receivable, as being an admission oagainst the party offering it, and that either in court or but of court Brown.
  • SELL
    To dispose of by sale, (q. v.)
  • SELLER
    One who sells anything; the party who transfers property in the contract of sale. The correlative is "buyer," or "purchaser." Though these terms are not inapplicable to the persons concerned in a transfer of real estate, it is more customary to use "vendor" and "vendee" In that case.
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