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  • SENECTUS
    Lat Old age. In the Roman law, the period of senectus, which relieved one from the charge of public office, was officially reckoned as beginning with the completion of the seventieth year. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 138.
  • SENESCALLUS
    In old English law. A seneschal; a steward; the steward of a manor. Fleta, 1. 2, c 72.
  • SENESCHAL
    In old European law. A title of office and dignity, derived from the middle ages, answering to that of steward or high steward In England. Seneschals were originally the lieutenants of the dukes and other great feudatories of the kingdom, and sometimes had the dispensing of justice and high military More...
  • SENESCHALLO ET MARESHALLO QUOD NON TENEAT PLACITA DE LIBERO TENEMENTO
    A writ addressed to the steward and marshal of England, inhibiting them to take cognizance of an action in their court that concerns freehold. Reg. Orig. 185. Abolished.
  • SENEUCIA
    In old records. Widowhood. Cowell.
  • SENILE DEMENTIA
    That peculiar decay of the mental faculties which occurs in extreme old age, and in many cases much earlier, whereby the person is reduced to second childhood, and becomes sometimes wholly Incompetent to enter into any binding contract or even to execute a will. It Is the recurrence of second More...
  • SENILITY
    Incapacity to contract arising from the impairment of the Intellectual faculties by old age.
  • SENIORES
    In old English law. Seniors; ancients; elders. A term applied to the great men of the realm. Spelman.
  • SENIOR
    Lord; a lord. Also the elder. An addition to the name of the elder of two persons having the same name. -Senior counsel. Of two or more counsel retained on the same side of a cause, 'he is the "senior" who is the elder, or more important in rank or More...
  • SENORIO
    In Spanish law.- Dominion or property.
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