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  • SPONSIONS
    In international law. Agreements or engagements made by certain public officers (as generals or admirals In time of war) in behalf of their governments, either without authority or in excess of the* authority under which they purport to be made, and which therefore require an express or tacit ratification.
  • SPONSOR
    A surety; one who makes a promise or gives security for another, particularly a godfather In baptism. . In tbe civil law. One who intervenes for another voluntarily and without being requested.
  • SPONTE OBLATA
    Lat A free gift or present to the crown. Sponto Tirana mnlier f ngiens et adnl-tera facta, dote sna oareat, nisi sponat sponte retracts. Co. Litt 82b. Let a woman leaving her husband of her own accord, and committing adultery, lose her dower, unless taken back by her husband of More...
  • SPORTULA
    Lat In Roman law. A largess, dole, or present; a pecuniary donation; an official perquisite;, something over and above the ordinary fee allowed by law. Inst 4, 6, 24.
  • SPOUSALS
    In old English law. Mutual promises to marry.
  • SPOUSE-BREACH
    In old English law. Adultery. Cowell.
  • SPRING
    A fountain of water; an issue ef water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of Its issue. Webster. Ay natural chasm in which water has collected, and from which it either is lost by percolation or rises in a defined channel. Furner v. 8eabury, 135 More...
  • SPRINGING USE
    See USE.
  • SPUILZIE
    In Scotch law. The taking away or meddling with movables in another's possession, without the consent of the owner or authority of law. Bell.
  • SPURIOUS
    Not proceeding from the otrue source; not genuine; counterfeited. "A spurious bank-bill may be a legitimate impression from the genuine plate, but it must have the signatures of persons not the officers of the bank whence it purports to have issued, or else the names of fictitious persons. A spurious More...
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