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  • STOP ORDER
    The name of an order grautable in English chancery practice, to prevent drawing out a fund in court to the prejudice of an assignee or lienholder.
  • STOPPAGE
    In the civil law. Compensation or set-off.
  • STOPPAGE IN TRANSITU
    The act by which the unpaid vendor of goods stops their progress and resumes possession of them, while they are in course of transit from him to the purchaser, and not yet actually delivered to the latter. The right of stoppage in transitu is that which the vendor has, when More...
  • STORE
    Storing is the keeping merchandise for safe custody, to be delivered in the same condition as when received, where the safe-keeping is the principal object of deposit and not the consumption or sale. O'Nlel v. BufTalo F. Ins. Co., 3 N. Y. 122; Hynds v. Schenectady County Mut Ins. Co., More...
  • STOUTHRIEFF
    In Scotch law. Formerly this word Included every species of. theft accompanied with violence to the person, but of late years it has become the cor signata for forcible and masterful depredation within or near the dwelling-house; while robbery has been more particularly applied to violent depredation on the highway, More...
  • STOWAGE
    In maritime law. The storing, packing, or arranging of the cargo in a ship, in such a manner as to protect the goods from friction, bruising, or damage from leakage. Money paid for a room where goods are laid; housage. Wharton. STOWE. In old English law. A valley. Co. Litt. More...
  • STRADDLE
    In stock-brokers parlance the term means the double privilege 'Of a "put" and a "call," and secures to the holder the right to demand of the seller at a certain price within a certain time a certain number of shares of specified stock, or to require him to take, at More...
  • STRAMINEUS HOMO
    L. Lat A man of straw, one of no substance, put forward as bail or surety.
  • STRAND
    A shore or bank of the sea or a river. Doane v. Willcutt 5 Gray (Mass.). 335, 66 Am. Dec 369; Bell v. Hayes, 60 App. Div. 382, 69 N. Y. Supp. 898; Stillman v. Biir-feind, 21 App. Div. 13, 47 N. Y. Supp. 280.
  • STRANDING
    In maritime law. The drifting, driving, or running aground of a ship on a shore or strand. Accidental stranding takes place where the ship is driven on shore by the winds and waves. Voluntary stranding takes place where the ship is run on shore either to preserve her from a More...
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