Legal Term Dictionary

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.

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. Less...

Serjeant at omace. 2 Mod. 58.

Serjeant at omace. 2 Mod. 58. Less...

In old English practice. Serjeant at law. i

In old English practice. Serjeant at law. i Less...

In old English law. King's Serjeant; a public officer, who acted sometimes as the sheriffs deputy, and had also judicial powers. Bract fols. 145b, 150b, 330, 358.

In old English law. King's Serjeant; a public officer, who acted sometimes as the sheriffs deputy, and had also judicial powers. Bract fols. 145b, 150b, 330, 358. Less...

Serving; subject to a service or servitude. A servient estate is one which is burdened with a servitude. -Servient tenement. An estate in respect of which a service is owing, as the dominant tenement is that to which the service is due. Servile est expilationis crimen; sola innocentia libera. 2 More...

Serving; subject to a service or servitude. A servient estate is one which is burdened with a servitude. -Servient tenement. An estate in respect of which a service is owing, as the dominant tenement is that to which the service is due. Servile est expilationis crimen; sola innocentia libera. 2 Inst. 573. The crime of theft la slavish; innocence alone is free. Sorvitia personalia sequuntur persons-am. 2 Inst 374; Personal services follow the person. Less...

In contracts. The being employed tp serve another; duty or labor to be rendered by one person to another. The term is used also for employment In one of the offices, departments, or agencies of the government; as in the phrases "civil service," "public service," etc. * In fondal law. More...

In contracts. The being employed tp serve another; duty or labor to be rendered by one person to another. The term is used also for employment In one of the offices, departments, or agencies of the government; as in the phrases "civil service," "public service," etc. * In fondal law. Service was the consideration which the feudal tenants were bound to render to the lord in recompense for the lands they held of him. The services, in respect of their quality, were either free or base serviees, and, in respect of their quantity and the time of exacting them, were either certain or uncertain. 2 Bl. Comm. 60. In praetiee. The exhibition or delivery of a writ notice, injunction, etc., by an authorized person, to a person who is thereby officially notified of some action or proceeding in owhich he is concerned, and is thereby advised or warned of some action or step which be is commanded to take or to forbear. See Walker v. State, 52 Ala. 193; U. S. v. Mc-Mahon, 164 U. S. 81, 17 Sup. Ct 28, 41 L. Ed. 3J37; Sanford v. Dick, 17 Oonn. 213; Cross v. Barber, 16 R. I. 266, 15 Atl. 69. -Civil sorvioo. See that title.-Constructive service of prooess. Any form of service other than actual personal service; notification of an action or of some proceeding therein, given to a person affected by sending it to him in the mails or causing it to be published in a newspaper.-Personal service. Personal service of a writ or notice is made by delivering it to the person named, in person, or handing .him a copy and informing him of the nature and terms of the original. Leaving a copy at his place of abode is not personal service. Moyer v. Cook, 12 Wis. 336.-Salvage service. See SALVAGE.-Secular service. Worldly employment or service, as contrasted with spiritual or ecclesiastical.-Sorvioo by publication. Service of a summons or other process upon an absent or non-resident defendant by S ublishing the same as an advertisement in a esignated newspaper, with such other efforts to give him actual notice as the particular statute may prescribe.-Service of an heir. An old form of Scotch law, fixing the right and character of an heir to the estate of his ancestor. Bell.-Sorvioo of prooess. The service of writs, summonses, rules, etc., signifies the delivering to or leaving them with the party to whom or with whom they ought to be delivered or left; and, when they are so delivered, they are then said to have been served. Usually a copy only is served and the original is shown. Brown.-Special service. In Scotch law. That form of service by which the heir is served to the ancestor who was feudally vested in the lands. Bell.-Substituted service. This term generally denotes any form of service of process other than personal service, such as service by mail or by publication in a newspaper; but it is sometimes employed to denote service of a writ or notice on some person other than the one directly concerned, for example, his attorney of record, who has authority to represent him or to accept service for him. Less...

A judicial writ for a man distrained for services to one, when he owes and performs them to another, for the acquittal of such services. Reg. Jud. 27.

A judicial writ for a man distrained for services to one, when he owes and performs them to another, for the acquittal of such services. Reg. Jud. 27. Less...

Lat In feudal and old English law. The duty of obedience and performance which a tenant was bound to render to his lord, by reason of his fee. Spelman. -Servitium feodale et prodiale. A personal service, but due only by reason of lands which were held in fee. Bract. 1. More...

Lat In feudal and old English law. The duty of obedience and performance which a tenant was bound to render to his lord, by reason of his fee. Spelman. -Servitium feodale et prodiale. A personal service, but due only by reason of lands which were held in fee. Bract. 1. 2, c. 16.- Servitium forinseeum. Forinsec, foreign, or extra service; a kind of service that was due to the king, over and above (fori*) the service due to the lord.-Servitium intrin-secmn. Intrinsic or ordinary service; the ordinary service due the chief lord, from tenants within the fee. Bract fols. 36, 366.-Servitium liberum. A service to be done by feudatory tenants, who were called "liberi homines, and distinguished from vassals, as was their service, for they were not bound to any of the base services of plowing the lord's land, etc., but were to find a man and horse, or go with the lord into the army, or to attend the court, etc. Cowell.-Servitiiim mllitare. Knight-service; military service. 2 Bl. Comm. 62.-Servitiiim resale. Royal service, or the rights and prerogatives of manors which belong to the king as lord of the same, and which were generally reckoned to be six, viz.: Power of judicature, in matters of property; power of life and death, in felonies ana murder; a right to waifs and strays; assessments ; minting of money; and assise of bread, beer, weights, and measures. Cowell.- Servitiiim souti. Service of the shield; that is. knight-service.-Servitiam sokse. Service ot the plow; that is, socage. Servitiam, in lege Anglian, regnlariter aeoipitnr pro servitio qnod per tenentes dominis sols debetnr ratione food! Co. Litt 65. Service, by the law of England, means the service which is due from the tenants to the lords, by reason of their fee. Less...

A serving-man; particularly applied to students at Oxford, upon the foundation, who are similar to sizars at Cambridge. Wharton.

A serving-man; particularly applied to students at Oxford, upon the foundation, who are similar to sizars at Cambridge. Wharton. Less...

In old English practice. Servants or messengers of the marshal of the king's bench, sent out with bills or writs to summon persons to that court Now more commonly called "tipstaves." CowelL

In old English practice. Servants or messengers of the marshal of the king's bench, sent out with bills or writs to summon persons to that court Now more commonly called "tipstaves." CowelL Less...