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  • SIMULATION
    In the civil law. Misrepresentation or concealment of the truth; as where parties pretend to perform a transaction different from that in which they really are engaged. Mackeld. Rom. Law, f 181. In French law. Collusion; a fraudulent arrangement between two or more persons to give a false or deceptive More...
  • SIMULATE
    To feign, pretend, or counterfeit. To engage, usually with the co-op-peration or connivance of another person, in an act or series of acts, which are apparently transacted in good faith, and intended to be followed by their ordinary legal consequences, but which in reality conceal a fraudulent purpose of the More...
  • SINDERESIS
    "A natural power of tbe soul, set in the highest part thereof, moving and stirring it to good, and adhorring eviL And therefore sinderesis never slnneth nor erreth. And this sinderesis our Lord put in man, to the Intent that the order of things should he observed. And therefore sinderesis More...
  • SINE
    Lat Without -Sine animo revertendi. Without the intention of returning. 1 Kent, Comm. 78.- Sine assensu capital!. Without the consent of the chapter. In old English practice. A Writ which lay where a dean, bishop, prebendary, abbot, prior, or master of a hospital aliened the lands holden In the right More...
  • SINECURE
    In ecclesiastical law. When a rector of a parish neither resides nor performs duty at his benefice, but has a vicar under him. endowed and charged with the cure thereof, this is termed a "sinecure." Brown. An ecclesiastical benefice without cure of souls. In popular usage, the term denotes an More...
  • SINGLE
    Unitary; detached; individual; affecting only one person; containing only one part, article, condition, or covenant As to single "Adultery," "Bill," "Bond," "Combat" "Demise," "Entry," "Escheat" and "Original," see those titles.
  • SINGULAR
    Each; as in the expression "all and singular." Also, individual. As to singular "Successor," and "Title," see those titles.
  • SINKING FUND
    See FUND.
  • SIPESSOCUA
    In old English law. A franchise, liberty, or hundred.
  • SIST
    v. In Scotch practice. To stay proceedings. Bell.
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