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  • SKELETON BILL
    One drawn, indorsed, or accepted in blank.
  • SKILL
    Practical and familiar knowledge of the principles and processes of an art, science, or trade, combined with the ability to apply them in practice in a proper and approved manner and with readiness and dexterity. See Dole v. Johnson, 50 N. H. 454; Akrldge v. Noble, 114 Ga. 049, 41 More...
  • SLADE
    In old records. A long, flat, and narrow piece or strip of ground Paroch. Antiq. 465.
  • SLAINS
    See LETTERS OF SLAINS.
  • SLANDER
    In torts. Oral defamation; the speaking of false and malicious words concerning another, whereby injury results to his reputation. See Pollard v. Lyon, 91 U. S. 227, 23 L. Ed. 808; Fredrickson ?. Johnson, 60 Minn. 337, 62 N. W. 388; Ross v. Ward, 14 S. D. 210, 85 N. More...
  • SLANDERER
    One who maliciously and without reason imputes a crime or fault to another of which he is innocent See SLANDER.
  • SLAVE
    A person who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. Webster. One who is under the power of a master, and who belongs to him; so that the master may More...
  • SLAVE-TRADE
    The traffic in slaves, or fie buying and selling of sla.es for profit
  • SLAVERY
    The condition of a slave; that civil relation in which one man has absolute power over the life, fortune, and liberty of another.
  • SLAY
    This word, in an indictment adds nothing to the force and effect of the word "kill," when used with reference to the taking of human life. It is particularly applicable to the taking of human life in battle; and, when it is not used in this sense, it is synonymous More...
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