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  • SHOPA
    In old records, a shop. Cowell.
  • SHORE
    Land on the margin of the sea, or a lake or river. In common parlance, the word "shore" is" understood to mean the line that separates the tide-water from the land about it, wherever that line may be, and in whatever stage of the tide. The word "shore," in its More...
  • SHORT CAUSE
    A cause which is not likely to occupy a great portion of the time of the court, and which may be entered on the list of "short causes," upon the applicar tion of one of the parties, and will then be heard more speedily than it would be in its More...
  • SHORT ENTRY
    A custom of bankers of entering on the customer's pass-book the amount of notes deposited for collection, in such a manner that the amount is not carried to the latter's general balance until the notes are paid. See Giles v. Perkins, 9 East 12; Blaine v. Bourne, 11 R. I. More...
  • SHORT LEASE
    A term applied colloquially, but without much precision, to a lease for a short term, (as a month or a year,) as distinguished from one running for a long period.
  • SHORT NOTICE
    In practice. Notice of less than the ordinary time ; generally of half that time. 2 Tidd, Pr. 757.
  • SHORT SUMMONS
    A process, authorised in some of the states, to he issued against an absconding, fraudulent, or nonresident debtor, which is returnable within a less number of days than an ordinary writ of summons.
  • SHORTFORD
    An old custom of the city of Exeter. A mode of foreclosing the right of a tenant by the chief lord of the fee, in cases of non-payment of rent Cowell.
  • SHOW
    Although the words "show" and "indicate" are sometimes interchangeable In popular use, they are not always so. To "show" is to make apparent or clear by evidence; to prove; while an "Indication" may he merely a symptom; that which points to or gives direction to the mind. Coyle v. Com., More...
  • SHOW CAUSE
    To show cause against a rule nisi, an order, decree, execution, etc., is to appear as directed, and present to the court such reasons and considerations aa one has to offer why it should not be confirmed, take effect, be executed, or aa the case may be.
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