Legal Term Dictionary

Important; weighty; momentous, and not trifling; as in the phrases "serious bodily harm," "serious personal injury**' etc. Lawlor v. People, 74 111. 231; Union Mut. L. Ins. Go. v. Wilkinson, 13 Wail. 230, 20 L. Ed. 617.

Important; weighty; momentous, and not trifling; as in the phrases "serious bodily harm," "serious personal injury**' etc. Lawlor v. People, 74 111. 231; Union Mut. L. Ins. Go. v. Wilkinson, 13 Wail. 230, 20 L. Ed. 617. Less...

The same word etymologic-ally with "sergeant," but the latter spelling is more commonly employed in the designation of military and police officers, (see SERGEANT,) while the former is preferred when the term is used to describe certain grades of legal practitioners and certain officers of legislative bodies. See infra. -Common More...

The same word etymologic-ally with "sergeant," but the latter spelling is more commonly employed in the designation of military and police officers, (see SERGEANT,) while the former is preferred when the term is used to describe certain grades of legal practitioners and certain officers of legislative bodies. See infra. -Common Serjeant. A judicial officer attached to the corporation of the city of London, who assists the recorder in disposing of the crimina] business at the Old Bailey sessions, or central criminal court Brown.-Serjeant at arms. An executive officer appointed by, and attending on, a legislative body, whose principal duties are to execute its warrants, preserve order, and arrest offenders.-Serjeant at law. A barrister of the common-law courts of high standing, and of much the same rank as a doctor of law is in the ecclesiastical courts. These Serjeants seem to have derived their title from the old knights templar, (among whom there existed a peculiar class under the denomination of "frerea aergena," or "fratrea aervientes") and to have continued as a separate fraternity from a very early period in the history of the legal profession. The barristers who first assumed the old monastic title were those who practiced In the court of common pleas, and until a recent period (the 25th of April, 1834, 9 & 10 Vict c. 54) the Serjeants at law always had the exclusive privilege of practice in that court. Every judge of a common-law court, previous to his elevation to the bench, used to be created a Serjeant at law; but since the judicature act this is no longer necessary. Brown.-Serjeant of tbe mace. In English law. An officer who attends the lord mayor of London, and the chief magistrates of other corporate towns. Holthouse.-Serjeants' Inn. The inn to which the Serjeants at law belonged, near Chancery lane; formerly called "Faryndon Inn." Serjeantia idem est qnod sorvitinm. Co. litt 105. Serjeanty is the same as service. Less...

A species of tenure by knight service, which was due to the king only, and was distinguished into grand and petit serjeanty. The tenant holding by grand serjeanty was bound, Instead of attending the king generally in his wars, to do some honorary service to the king in person, as More...

A species of tenure by knight service, which was due to the king only, and was distinguished into grand and petit serjeanty. The tenant holding by grand serjeanty was bound, Instead of attending the king generally in his wars, to do some honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner or sword, or to be his butler, champion, or other officer at his coronation. Petit serjeanty differed from grand serjeanty, in that the service rendered to the king was not of a personal nature, but consisted in rendering him annually some small implement of war, as a bow, sword, arrow, lance, or the like. Cowell; Brown. Less...

In old English law. Oath; an oath. Sermo index animi. 5 Coke, 118. 'Speech hi an Index of the mind. Sermo relatns ad personam intelligi debet de eonditiono persona). Language which la referred to a person ought to be understood of tbe condition of the person. 4 Coke, 16. Sermones More...

In old English law. Oath; an oath. Sermo index animi. 5 Coke, 118. 'Speech hi an Index of the mind. Sermo relatns ad personam intelligi debet de eonditiono persona). Language which la referred to a person ought to be understood of tbe condition of the person. 4 Coke, 16. Sermones semper m aceipiendi snnt se-enndnm snbjeotam materlam, et conditionem personaram. 4 Coke, 14. Language is always to be understood according to its subject-matter, and the condition of the persons. Less...

A test for insanity by means of the breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood of the suspected person on the injection of the venom of cobras or other serpents; recently employed in judicial proceedings la some European countries and in Japan.

A test for insanity by means of the breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood of the suspected person on the injection of the venom of cobras or other serpents; recently employed in judicial proceedings la some European countries and in Japan. Less...

Notched, on the edge; cut In notches like the teeth of a saw. This was anciently the method of trimming the top or edge of a deed of indenture.. See INDENT

Notched, on the edge; cut In notches like the teeth of a saw. This was anciently the method of trimming the top or edge of a deed of indenture.. See INDENT Less...

in feudal law, was where a tenant, besides payment of a certain rent, found one or more workmen for his lord's service. Tomlins. Servanda est eonsnetndo loei nbi eansa agitnr. The custom of the place where the action hi brought is to be observed. 0e> couche v. Savetier, 3 Johns. More...

in feudal law, was where a tenant, besides payment of a certain rent, found one or more workmen for his lord's service. Tomlins. Servanda est eonsnetndo loei nbi eansa agitnr. The custom of the place where the action hi brought is to be observed. 0e> couche v. Savetier, 3 Johns. Ch, (N. Y.) 190, 210, 8 Am. Dec. 478. Less...

A servant is one who is employed to render personal services to his employer, otherwise than in the pursuit of an Independent calling, and who in such service remains entirely under the control and direction of the latter, who hi called his master. Civ. Code Cal. | 2009. Servants or More...

A servant is one who is employed to render personal services to his employer, otherwise than in the pursuit of an Independent calling, and who in such service remains entirely under the control and direction of the latter, who hi called his master. Civ. Code Cal. | 2009. Servants or domestics are those who receive wages, and stay in the house of the person paying and employing them for his services or that of his family; such are valets, footmen, cooks, butlers, and others who reside in the house. Civ. Code La. art. 3205. Free servants are in general all free persons who let, hire, or engage their services to another in the state, to be employed therein at any work, commerce, or occupation whatever for the benefit of him who has contracted with them, for a certain price or retribution, or upon certain conditions. Civ. Code La. art. 163. Servants are of two kinds,-menial servants, being persons retained by others to live within the walls of the house, and to perform the work and business of the household; and persons employed by men of trades and professions under them, to assist them in their particular callings. Mozley & Whitley. See, also, Flesh v. Lindsay, 115 Mo. 1 21 8. W. 907, 37 Am. St Rep. 374; Murray v. Dwight, 161 N. Y. 301, 55 N. E. 901, 48 U R. A. 673; Gin ter v. Shelton, 102 Va. 185, 45 S. E. 892; Powers Y. Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, 109 Fed. 294, 47 C. C. A. 122, 65 L. R. A. 372; Gampfleld v. Lang, (C. C) 25 Fed. 131; Frank v. Herold, 63 N. J. Eq. 443, 52 Atl. 152; Morgan v. Bowman, 22 Mo. 548; Gravatt v. State, 25 Ohio SC. 167; Hand v. Cole, 88 TeniL 400, 12 S. W. 922, 7 L. R. A. 96. Less...

In Scotch practice. To render a verdict or decision In favor of a person claiming to be an heir; to declare the fact of his heirship judicially. A jury are said to serve a claimant heir, when they find him to be heir, upon the evidence submitted to them. Bell More...

In Scotch practice. To render a verdict or decision In favor of a person claiming to be an heir; to declare the fact of his heirship judicially. A jury are said to serve a claimant heir, when they find him to be heir, upon the evidence submitted to them. Bell As to serving papers, etc., see SERVICE OF PROCESS. Less...

Lat In old European, law. Slaves; persona over whom their masters had absolute dominion In old English law. Bondmen; servile tenants. Cowell

Lat In old European, law. Slaves; persona over whom their masters had absolute dominion In old English law. Bondmen; servile tenants. Cowell Less...