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  • 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.
  • SMART-MONEY
    Vindictive or exemplary damages. See Brewer v. Jacobs (C. C.) 22 Fed. 224; Springer v. Somers Fuel Co., 196 Pa. 156, 46 Ati. 370; Day v. Wood-worth, 13 How. 371, 14 L. Ed. 181; Murphy v. Hobbs, 7 Colo. 541, 5 Pac. 119, 49 Am. Rep. 366.
  • SMOKE-FARTHINGS
    In old English law. An annual rent paid to cathedral churches; another name for the pentecostals or customary oblations offered by the dispersed inhabitants within a diocese, when they made their processions to the mother cathedral church. Cowell.
  • SMOKE-SILVER
    In English law. A sum paid to the ministers of divers parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. Blount
  • SMUGGLING
    The offense of importing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed Indifferently either upon the excise or customs revenue. Wharton.
  • SMUGGLE
    The act with intent to defraud, of bringing into the United States, or with like intent attempting to bring into the United States, dutiable articles, without passing the same, or the package containing the same, through the custom-house, or submitting them to the officers of the revenue for examination. 18 More...
  • SNOTTERING SILVER
    A small duty which was paid by servile tenants in Wy-legh to the abbot of Colchester. Cowell.
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