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  • SHAVE
    While "shave" is sometimes used to denote the act of obtaining the property of another by oppression and extortion, it may be used in an innocent sense to denote the buying of existing notes and other securities for money, at a discount Hence to charge a man with using money More...
  • SHAW
    In old English law. A wood. Co. Litt 4b.
  • SHAWATORES
    Soldiers. CowelL
  • SHEADING
    A riding, tithing, or division in the Isle of Man, where the whole island is divided into six sheadings, in each of which there is a coroner or chief constable appointed by a delivery of a rod at tbe Tlnewald court or annual convention. King* Isle of Man, 7.
  • SHEEP
    A wether more than a year old. Rex v. Blrket, 4 Car. & P. 216.
  • SHEEP-HEAVES
    Small plots of pasture, in England, often in the middle of the waste of a manor, of which the soil may or may not be in the lord, but the pasture is private property, and leased or sold as such. They principally occur in the northern counties, (Cooke, IncL Acts, More...
  • SHEEP-SILVER
    A service turned Into money, which was paid in respect that anciently the tenants used to wash the lord's sheep. Wharton.
  • SHEEP-SKIN
    A deed; so called from the parchment ft was written on.
  • SHEEP-WALK
    A right of sheep-walk bi the same thing as a fold-course, (q.v.) Elton, Commons, 44.
  • SHELLEY'S CASE, RULE OF
    "When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate ia limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or ha tall, the 'heirs' are words of lim-' itation of the estate, and not words of More...
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