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  • STACHIA
    In old records. A dam or head made to stop a water-course. Cowell.
  • STAFF-HERDING
    The following of cattle within a forest.
  • STAGE-RIGHT
    is a word which it has been attempted to introduce as a substitute for "the right of representation and performance," but it can hardly be said to be an accepted term of English or American law. Sweet
  • STAGIARIUS
    A resident. Cowell.
  • STAGNUM
    In old English law. A pool, or pond. Co. Litt 5a; Johnson v. Rayner, 6 Gray (Mass.) 110.
  • STAKE
    A deposit made to answer an event as on a wager. See Harris v. White, 81 N. Y. 539; Porter v. Day, 71 Wis. 296, 37 N. W. 259; Mohr v. Miesen, 47 Minn. 228, 49 N. W. 862. -Stakeholder primarily means a person with whom money is deposited pending More...
  • STALE
    In Saxon law. Larceny. Wharton.
  • STALE
    In the language of the courts of equity, a "stale" claim or demand is one which has not been pressed or asserted for so long a time that the owner or creditor is chargeable with laches, and that changes occurring meanwhile in the relative situation of the parties, or the More...
  • STALLAGE
    Tbe liberty or right of pitching or erecting stalls in fairs or markets, or the money paid for the same. 1 Steph. Comm. 664.
  • STALLARIUS
    In Saxon law. The prefectus stabuli, now master of the horse. Sometimes one who has a stall in a fair or market
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