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  • SOLUTUS
    In tbe civil law. Loosed; freed from confinement; set at liberty. Dig. 50, 16, 48. In Seoteb praetiee. Purged. A term used in old depositions.
  • SOLVABILITY
    Fr. In French law. Ability to pay; solvency. Emerig. Traite des Assur. c. 8, | 15.
  • SOLVENCY
    Ability to pay; present ability to pay; ability to pay one's debts out of one's own present means. Marsh .v. Dunckel. 25 Hun (N. Y.) 109; Osborne v. Smith (C. C.) 18 Fed. 130; Larkin v. Hap-good, 56 Vt 601; Sterrett v. Third Nat Bank, 46 Hun (N. Y.) 26; More...
  • SOLVENDO
    Lat Paying. An apt word of reserving a rent In old conveyances. Co. Litt 47a.
  • SOLVENDO ESSE
    Lat. To be in a state of solvency; i. e., able to pay. Solvendo esse nemo intelUgitur nisi qnl solidnm potest solvere. No one is considered to be solvent unless he can pay all that he owes. Dig. 50, 16, 114.
  • SOLVENT
    A solvent person is one who is able to pay all his just debts in full out of his own present means. See Dig. 50, 16, 114. And see SOLVENCY.
  • SOLVERE
    Lat To pay; to comply with one's engagement; te do what one has undertaken to do; to release one's self from obligation, as by payment of a debt. Calvin. -Solvere pcanas. To pay the penalty.
  • SOLVIT
    Lat He paid; paid. 10 East 206. -Solvit ad diem. He paid at the day. The technical name of the plea, in an action of debt on bond, that the defendant paid the money on the day mentioned in the condition. 1 Archb. N. P. 220, 221.~-Solvit ante diem. A More...
  • SOMERSETT'S CASE
    A celebrated decision of the English king's bench, in 1771, (20 How. St. Tr. 1,) that slavery no longer existed in England in any form, and could not for the future exist on English soil, an<| that any person brought into England as a slave could not be thence removed More...
  • SOMMATION
    In French law. A demand served by a huissier, by which one Party calls upon another to do or not to do a certain thing. This document has for its object to establish that upon a certain date the demand was made. Arg. FT. Merc. Law, 574.
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