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  • STRIKING A DOCKET
    In English practice. The first step in the proceedings in bankruptcy, which consists in making affidavit of the debt and giving a bond to follow up the proceedings with effect 2 Steph. Comm. 199. When the affidavit and bond are delivered at the bankrupt office, an entry is made in More...
  • STRIKING A JURY
    The selecting or nominating a jury of twelve men out of the whole number returned as jurors on the panel. It is especially used of the selection of a special jury, where a panel of forty-eight is prepared by the proper officer, and the parties, in turn, strike off a More...
  • STRIKING OFF THE ROLL
    The disbarring of an attorney or solicitor.
  • STRIP
    The act of spoiling or unlawfully taking away anything from the land, by the tenant for life or years, or by one holding an estate in the land less than the entire fee. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1295.
  • STRONG HAND
    The words "with strong hand" imply a degree of criminal force, whereas the words vi et armis ("with force and arms") are mere formal words In the action of trespass, and the plaintiff is not bound to prove any force. The statutes relating to forcible entries use the words "with More...
  • STRUCK
    In pleading. A word essential in an indictment for murder, when the death arises from any wounding, beating, or bruising. 1 Bulst 184; 5 Coke, 122; 3 Mod. 202.
  • STRUCK JURY
    See STRIKING A JURY
  • STRUMPET
    A whore, harlot or courtesan. This word was anciently used for an addition. It occurs as an addition to the name of a woman in a return made by a jury in the sixth year of Henry V. Wharton.
  • STUFF GOWN
    The professional robe worn by barristers of the outer bar; viz., those who have not been admitted to the rank of king's counsel. Brown.
  • STULTIFY
    To make one out mentally incapacitated for the performance of an act.
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