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  • STEALTH
    Theft is so called by some ancient writers. "Stealth is the wrongful taking of goods without pretense of title." Finch, Law, b. 3, c. 17.
  • STEELBOW GOODS
    In Scotch law. Corns, cattle, straw, and implements of husbandry delivered by a landlord to bis tenant, by which the tenant is enabled to stock and labor the farm; in consideration of which he Becomes bound to return articles equal in quantity and quality, at the expiry of the lease. More...
  • STELLIONATAIRE
    Fr. In French law. A party who fraudulently mortgages property to which he has no title.
  • STELLIONATE
    In Scotch law. The crime of aliening the same subject to different persons. 2 Karnes, Eq. 40.
  • STELLIONATUS
    Lat. In the civil law. A general name for any kind of fraud not falling under any specific class. But the term is chiefly applied to fraud practiced in the sale or pledging of property; as, selling the same property to two different persons, selling another's property as one's own, More...
  • STENOGRAPHER
    One who is skilled in the art of short-hand writing; one whose business is to write in short-hand. See Ry-nerson v. Allison, 30 S. C. 534, 9 S. E. 656; In re Appropriations for Deputy State Officers, 25 Neb. 662, 41 N. W. 643; Chase v. Vandergrift, 88 Pa. 217.
  • STEP-DAUGHTER
    The daughter of one's wife by a former husband, or of one's husband by a former wife.
  • STEP-FATHER
    The man who marries a widow, she having a child by her former marriage, is step-father to such child.
  • STEP-MOTHER
    The woman who marries a widower, he having a child by his former wife, becomes step-mother to such child
  • STEP-SON
    The son of one's wife by a former husband, or of one's husband by a former wife.
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