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  • SLEEPING RENT
    In English law. An expression frequently used in coal-mine leases and agreements for the same It signifies a fixed or dead, i. e., certain, rent as distinguished from a rent or royalty varying with the amount of coals gotten, and is payable although the mine should not be worked at More...
  • SLIGHT
    As to slight "Care," "Evidence,'* "Fault" and "Negligence," see those titlea.
  • SLIP
    1. In negotiations for a policy of insurance. In England, the agreement is hi practice concluded between the parties by a memorandum called the "slip," containing the terms of the proposed Insurance, an4 initialed by the underwriters. Sweet "2. Also that part of a police court which is divided off More...
  • SLIPPA
    A stirrup. There is a tenure of land in Cambridgeshire by holding the sovereign's stirrup. Wharton.
  • SLOUGH
    An arm of a river, flowing between islands and the main-land, and separating the islands from one another. Sloughs have not the breadth of the main river, nor does the main body of water of the stream flow through them. Dunlieth & D. Bridge Co. v. Dubuque County, 55 Iowa, More...
  • SLOUGH SILVER
    A rent paid to the castle of Wigmore, in lieu of certain days' work in harvest, heretofore reserved to the lord from his tenants. Cowell.
  • SLUICEWAY
    An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice. Specifically, a trench constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs or lumber can be floated down to a coifvenient place of delivery. Webster. See Anderson v. Munch, 29 Minn. 416, 18 N. W. 192.
  • SMAKA
    In old records. A small, light vessel; a smack. CowelL
  • SMALL DEBTS COURTS
    The several county courts established by St 9 A 10 Vict c 96, for the purpose of bringing justice home to every man's door.
  • SMALL TITHES
    All personal and mixed tithes, and also hops, flax, saffrons, potatoes, and sometimes, by custom, wood. Otherwise called "privy tithes." 2 Steph. Comm. 726.
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