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  • SI ITA EST
    Lat If it be so. Emphatic words in the old writ of mandamu to a judge, commanding him, if the fact alleged be truly stated, (si ita est,) to affix his seal to a bill of exceptions. Ex parte Crane. 5 Pet 192, 8 L. Ed. 92. Si meliores snnt More...
  • SI NON OMNES
    Lat In English practice. A writ of association of justices whereby, if all in commission cannot meet at the day assigned, it is allowed that two or more may proceed with the business. Cowell; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. Ill C. Si nnlla sit eonjeetnra qnss duoat alio, verba intelligenda snnt ex More...
  • SI PARET
    Lat If it appears. In Roman law. Words used in tbe formula by which the praetor appointed a judge, and instructed him how to.decide the cause. Si plures sint mdejussores, qnotquot ernnt nnmero, sinamli in solidnnt tenen-tnr. If there are more sureties than one, bow many soever they shall be, More...
  • SI PRIUS
    Lat In old practice. If before. Formal words in the old writs for summoning juries. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 65, ? 12. Si qnid nniversitati debetnr singulis mon debetnr, nee qnod debet nniversi-tas singmli debent. If anything be owing to an entire body, it is not owing to the individual More...
  • SI RECOGNOSCAT
    Lat If he acknowledge. In old practice. A writ which lay for a creditor against his debtor for money numbered (peeunia numerata) or counted; that is, a specific sum of money, which the debtor had acknowledged in the county court, to owe him, as received in pecuniis numeratis. Cowell. Si More...
  • SI QUIS
    Lat In the civil law. If any one. Formal words in the praetorian edicts. The words "quis" though masculine in form was held to include women. Dig. 50, 16, L Si qnis onstos frandom pnpillo feoerit, a tntela removendns est. . Jenk. Cent. 89. If a guardian do fraud to More...
  • SIB
    Sax. A relative or kinsman. Used In the Scotch tongue, but not now in English.
  • SIC
    Lat Thus; so; In such manner. Sie omim debere qmem mellorem agmm snnm faoere no vieini deteriorem fadat. Every one ought so to improve his land as not to injure his neighbor's. 3 Kent, Comm. 441. A rule of the Roman law. Sie interpretandnm est nt verba ae-eipiantnr enm effeotn. More...
  • SIC SUBSCRIBITUR
    Lat In Scotch practice. So it is subscribed. Formal words at the end of depositions, immediately preceding the signature. 1 How. State Tr. 1379. Sie ntere tno nt aHonnm non lsedas. Use your own property in such a manner as not to injure that of another. 9 Coke, 59; 1 More...
  • SICH
    A little current of water, which is dry in summer; a water furrow or gutter. Cowell.
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