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  • STRANGER IN BLOOD
    Any person not within the consideration of natural love and affection arising from relationship.
  • STRANGERS
    By this term is intended third persons generally. Thus the persons bound by a fine are parties, privies, and strangers; the parties are either the cogni-zore or cognizees; the privies are such as are In any way related to those who levy the fine, and claim under them by any More...
  • STRATAGEM
    A deception either by words or actions, in times of war, in order to obtain an advantage over an enemy.
  • STRATOCRACY
    A military government; government by military chiefs of an army.
  • STRATOR
    In old English law. A surveyor of the highways
  • STRAW BAIL
    See BAIL.
  • STRAY
    See ESTRAY.
  • STREAM
    A current of water; a body of flowing water. The word, in its ordinary tfense, includes rivers. But Callis defines a stream "a current of waters running over the level at random, and not kept in with banks or walls." Call. Sew. ?83,1 133. See Munson v. Hungerford, 6 Barb. More...
  • STREAMING FOR TIN
    The process of working tin in Cornwall and Devon. The right to stream must not be exercised so as to interfere with the rights of other private Individuals; e. g. either by withdrawing or by polluting or choking up the water-courses or waters of others; and the statutes 23 Hen. More...
  • STREET
    An urban way or thoroughfare; a road or public way in a city, town, or village, generally paved, and lined or intended to be lined by houses on each side. See U. S. v. Bain, 24 Fed. Cas. 943; Brace v. New York Cent R. Co., 27 N. Y. 271; More...
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