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  • 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.
  • SORORICIDE
    The killing or murder of a sister; one who murders his sister. This Is not a technical term of the law.
  • SORS
    Lat. In the civil law. Lot; chance; fortune;, hazard; a lot, made of wood, gold, or other material. Money borrowed, or put out at Interest. A principal sum or fund, such as the capital of a partnership. Ainsworth; Calvin. In. eld English law. A principal lent on interest, as distinguished More...
  • SORTITIO
    Lat In the civil law. A drawing of lots. Sortitio judicum was the process of selecting a number of judges, for a criminal trial, by drawing lots.
  • SOUGH
    In English law. A drain or water-course. The channels or water-courses used for draining mines are so termed; and those mines which are near to any given sough, and lie within the same level, and are benefited by it, are technically said to lie within the title of that sough. More...
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