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  • 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.
  • SICIUS
    A sort of money current among the ancient English, of the value of 2d
  • SICKNESS
    Disease; malady; any morbid condition of the body (including insanity) which, for the time being, hinders or prevents the organs from normally discharging their several functions. L. R. 8 Q. B. 295.
  • SICUT ALIAS
    Lat. As at another time, or heretofore. This was a second writ sent out when the first was not executed. Cowell.
  • SICUT ME DEUS ADJUVET
    Lat So help me God. Fleta, 1. 1, c 18 Stent natura nil faoit per saltnm, ita moo lex. Co. Litt. 238. In the same way as nature does nothing by a bound, so neither does the law.
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