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  • SOMNAMBULISM
    Sleep-walking. Whether this condition is anything more than a co-operation of the voluntary muscles with the thoughts which occupy the mind during sleep is not settled by physiologists. Wharton.
  • SOMPNOUR
    In ecclesiastical law, an officer of the ecclesiastical courts whose duty was to serve citations or process.
  • SON
    An immediate male descendant;. the, correlative of "father." Technically a word of purchase, unless explained. Its meaning may be extended by construction to include more remote descendants, such as a grandchild, and also to include an illegitimate male child, though the presumption Is against this* See Flora v. Anderson More...
  • SON-IN-LAW
    The husband of one's daughter.
  • SONTAGE
    A tax of forty shillings anciently laid upon every knight's fee. Cowell;
  • SONTICUS
    Lat In the civil law. Hurtful; Injurious; hindering; excusing or justifying delay. Morbus sonticus is any illness pf so serious a nature as to prevent a defendant from appearing in court and to give him a valid excuse. Calyin. o:
  • SOON
    If there is no time specified for the performance of an act or if it is specified that it is to be performed soon, the law implies that it is to be performed within o a reasonable time. Sanford v. Shephard, 14 Kan. 232.
  • SOREHON, OR SORN
    An arbitrary exaction, formerly existing in Scotland and Ireland. Whenever a chieftain had a mind to revel, he came down among the tenants with his followers, by way of contempt called "Gilliwitfltts,1' and lived on free quarters. Wharton; Bell.
  • SORNER
    In Scotch law. A person who takes meat and drink from others by force or menaces, without paying for It Bell.
  • SOROR
    Lat. In the civil law. Slater; a sister. Ihst. 3, 6, 1.
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