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  • SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS
    These are inflammable liquids produced by distillation, and forming an article of commerce. See Blankenship v. State, 93 Ga. 814, 21 S. E. 130; State v. Munger, 15 Vt 293; Allred v. State, 89 Ala. 112, 8 South. 56; Clifford v. State, 29 Wis. 329. The phrase "spirituous liquor," in More...
  • SPITAL, OR SPITTLE
    A charitable foundation; a hospital for diseased people; a hospital. Cowell.
  • SPLITTING A CAUSE OF ACTION
    Dividing a single cause of action, claim, or demand into two or more parts, and bringing suit for one of such parts only, Intending to reserve the rest for a separate action. . The plaintiff who does this Is bound by his flrst judgment and can recover no more. 2 More...
  • SPOLIATOR
    Lat. A spoiler or destroyer. It is a maxim of law, bearing chiefly on evidence, but also upon the value generally of the thing destroyed, that everything most to his disadvantage is to be presumed against the destroyer, (spoliator,) contra spoliatorem omnia prwsumuntur. 1 Smith, Lead. Cas. 315. Spoliatns debet More...
  • SPOLIATION
    In English ecclesiastical law. An Injury done by one clerk or incumbent to another, in taking the fruits of his benefice without any rigbt to them, but under a pretended title. 3 Bl. Comm. 90, 91. The name of a suit sued out in the spiritual court to recover for More...
  • SPOLIUM
    Lat. In the civil and common law. A thing violently or unlawfully taken from another.
  • SPONDEO
    Lat. In the civil law. I undertake; I engage. Inst. 3,16, L
  • SPONDES? SPONDEO
    Lat. Do you undertake? I do undertake. The most common form of verbal stipulation in the Roman law. Inst 3, 16, L Spondet peritiam artis. He promises the skill of his art; he engages to do the work in a skillful or workmanlike manner. 2 Kent, Comm. 588. Applied to More...
  • SPONSALIA, STIPULATIO SPONSA-LITIA
    Lat In the civil law. Espousal; betrothal; a reciprocal promise of future marriage.
  • SPONSIO
    Lat In the civil law. An engagement or undertaking; particularly such as was made in the form of an answer to a formal interrogatory by the other party. Calvin. An engagement to pay a certain sum of money to the successful party in a cause. Calvin. -Sponsio judioialis. In Roman More...
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