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  • 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.
  • SIDE
    The same court is sometimes said to have different sides; that is, different provinces or fields of jurisdiction. Thus, an admiralty court may have an "instance side/' distinct from its powers as a prize court; the "crown side," (criminal jurisdiction) is to be distinguished from the "plea side," (civil jurisdiction;) More...
  • SIDE-BAR RULES
    In English practice. There are some rules which the courts authorize their officers to grant as a matter of course without formal application being made to them in open court and these are technically termed "side-bar rules," because formerly they were moved for by the attorneys at the side bar More...
  • SIDE REPORTS
    A term sometimes applied to unofficial volumes or series of reports, as contrasted with those prepared by the official reporter of the court, or to collections of cases omitted from the official reports.
  • SIDE LUTES
    In mining law, the side lines of a mining claim are those which measure the extent of the claim on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface. They are not necessarily the side lines as laid down on the ground or on a map or plat; More...
  • SIDESMEN
    In ecclesiastical law. These were originally persons whom, in the ancient episcopal synods, the bishops were wont to summon out of each parish to give information of the disorders of the clergy and people, and to report heretics. In process of time they became standing officers, under the title of More...
  • SIDEWALK
    A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road. See Kohlhof v. Chicago, 102 111. 249, 61 N. E. 446, 85 Am. St. Rep. 335; Challiss v. Parker, 11 Kan. 391; State v. Berdetta, 73 Ind. 185, 38 Am. Rep. 117; Pequignot v. Detroit (C. C.) More...
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