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  • SEPES
    Lat. In old English law. A hedge or inclosure. The inclosure of a trench or canal. Dig. 43, 21, 4.
  • SEPTENNIAL ACT
    In English law. The statute 1 Geo. I. St. 2, c. 38. The act by which a parliament has continuance for seven years, and no longer, unless sooner dissolved; as it always has, in fact, been since the passing of the act. Wharton.
  • SEPTUAGESIMA
    In ecclesiastical law. The third Sunday before Quadragesima Sunday, 'being about the seventieth day before Easter.
  • SEPTUM
    Lat In Roman law. An inclosure; an inclosed place where the people voted; otherwise called "ovile". In old English law. An inclosure or .close. Cowell.
  • SEPTUNX
    Lat. In Roman law. A division of the as, containing seven unciw, or duodecimal parts; the proportion of seven-.twelfths. Tayl. Civil Law, 492.
  • SEPULCHRE
    A grave or tomb. The place of interment of a dead human body. The violation of sepulchres Is a misdemeanor at common law.
  • SEPULTURA
    Lat An offering to the priest for the burial of a dead body. Sequamur vestigia patrnm nostrornnt. Jenk. Cent Let us follow the footsteps of our fathers.
  • SEQUATUR SUB SUO PERICULO
    In old English practice. A writ which issued where a sheriff had returned nihil, upon a summoneas ad toarraniizandum, and after an alias and pluries had been issued. So called because the tenant lost his lands without any recovery in value, unless upon that writ he brought the vouchee into More...
  • SEQUELA
    L. Lat. In old English law. Suit; process or prosecution. Sequela causw, the process of a cause. Cowell. -Sequela curiae. Suit of court Cowell.- Sequela villanorum. The family retinue and appurtenances to the goods and chattels of villeins, which were at the absolute disposal of the lord. Par. Antiq. 216.
  • SEQUELS
    Small allowances of meal, or manufactured victual, made to the servants at a mill where corn was ground, by tenure. In Scotland. Wharton.
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