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  • SERRATED
    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
  • SERVAGE
    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...
  • SERVANT
    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...
  • SERVE
    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...
  • SERVI
    Lat In old European, law. Slaves; persona over whom their masters had absolute dominion In old English law. Bondmen; servile tenants. Cowell
  • SERVI REDEMPTIONS
    Criminal jslaves in the time of Henry X. X Kemble, Sax. 197, (1849.)
  • SERVICES FONCIERS
    Fr. These are. bi French law, the easements of English law. Brown.
  • SERVIDUMBRE
    In Spanish law. A servitude. The right and use which one man has in the buildings and estates of another, to use them for the benefit of his own. Las Partidas, 3, 31, 1.
  • SERVIENS AD CLAVAM
    Serjeant at omace. 2 Mod. 58.
  • SERVIENS AD LEGEM
    In old English practice. Serjeant at law. i
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