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  • SIST
    n. In Scotch practice. A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings. BelL
  • SISTER
    A woman who has the same father and mother with another, or has one of them only. The word is the correlative of "brother."
  • SIT
    To hold a session, as of a court, grand Jury, legislative body, etc. To be formally organized and proceeding with the transaction of business. See Allen v. State, 102 Ga. 019, 29 S. E. 470; Cock v. State, 8 Tex. App. 659.
  • SITHCUNDMAM
    In Saxon law. The high constable of a hundred.
  • SITIO GANADO MAYOR
    Sp. In Spanish and Mexican land law, a tract of land in the form of a square, each side of which measures 5,000 varas; the distance from the center of each sitio to each of its sides should be measured directly to the cardinal points of the compass, and should More...
  • SITTINGS
    In practice. The holding of a court with full form, and before all the judges; as a sitting in banc. 3 Steph. Comm. 423. The holding of a court of nisi prius by one or more of the judges of a superior court. Instead of the ordinary nisi prius judge. More...
  • SITUS
    Lat Site; position; location; the place where a thing is, considered, for example, with reference to jurisdiction over it or the right or power to tax it See Boyd v. Selma, 96 Ala. 144, 11 South. 393, 16 L. R. A. 729; Bullock v. Guilford, 59 Vt 516, 9 Ati. More...
  • SIX ACTS, THE
    The acts passed in 1819, for the pacification of England, are so called. They, in effect prohibited the training of persons to arms; authorized general searches and seizure of arms; prohibited meetings of more than fifty persons for the discussion of public grievances; repressed with heavy penalties and confiscations seditious More...
  • SIX ARTICLES, LAWS OF
    A celebrated act entitled "An act for abolishing diversity of opinion," (31 Hen. VIII. c. 14,) enforcing conformity to six of the strongest points in the Roman Catholic religion, under the severest penalties; repealed by St 1 Eliz. c. 1. 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 378.
  • SIX CLERKS
    In English practice. Officers of the court of chancery, who received and filed all bills, answers, replications, and other papers, signed office copies of pleadings, examined and signed dockets of decrees, etc., and had the care of all records in their oftlce. Holthouse; 3 Bl. Comm. 443. They were abolished More...
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