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  • SOLATIUM
    Compensation. Damages allowed for injury to the feelings.
  • SOLD NOTE
    A note given by a broker, who has effected a sale of merchandise, to the buyer, stating the fact of sale, quantity, price, etc. Story, Ag. I 28; Saladin Mitchell, 45 111. 83.
  • SOLDIER
    A military man; a private in the army.
  • SOLE
    Single; individual; separate; the opposite of joint; as a sole tenant. ' Comprising only one person; the opposite of aggregate; as a solo corporation. Unmarried; as a feme sole. See the nouns.
  • SOLEMN
    Formal; in regular form; with all the forms of a proceeding. As to solemn "Form," see PROBATE. As to solemn "Oath" and "War," see the nouns.
  • SOLEMNES LEGUM FORMUAE
    Lat In the cvil law. Solemn forms of laws; forms of forensic proceedings and of trans* acting legal acts. One of the sources of the unwritten law of Rome. Butl. Hor. Jur. 47.
  • SOLEMNITAS ATTACHIAMENTORUM
    In old English practice. Solemnity or formality of attachments. The Issuing of attachments in a certain formal and regular order. Bract fols. 439, 440; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 480. Solemnitates juris snnt observanda*. The solemnities of law are to be observed. Jenk. Cent 13.
  • SOLEMNITY
    A rite or ceremony; the formality established by law to render a contract, agreement or other act valid.
  • SOLEMNIZE
    To solemnize, spoken of a marriage, means no more than to enter into a marriage contract with due publication, before third persons, for the purpose of giving it notoriety and certainty; which may be before any persons, relatives, friends, or strangers, competent to testify to the facts. See Dyer v. More...
  • SOLICITATION
    Asking; enticing; urgent request Thus "solicitation of chastity" is the asking or urging a woman to surrender her chastity. The word is also used in such phrases as "solicitation to larceny," to bribery, etc.
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