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  • SUB-BOIS
    Coppice-wood. 2 Inst. 642.
  • SUB AGENT
    An under-agent; a substituted agent; an agent appointed by one who Is himself an agent. 2 Kent Comm. 633.
  • SUBALTERN
    An inferior or subordinate officer. An officer who exercises his authority under the superintendence and control of a superior.
  • SUBCONTRACT
    See CONTRACT
  • SUBDITUS
    Lat In old English law. A vassal; a dependent; any one under the power of another. Spelman.
  • SUBDIVIDE
    To divide a part into smaller parts; to separate into smaller divisions. As, where an estate is to be taken by some of the heirs per stirpes, it is divided and subdivided according to the number of takers in the nearest degree and those in the more remote degree respectively.
  • SUBDUCT
    In English probate practice, to subduct a caveat is to withdraw it
  • SUBHASTARE
    Lat. In the civil law. To sell at public auction, which was done 'sub hasta', under a spear; to put or sell under the spear. Calvin.
  • SUBHASTATIO
    Lat. In the civil law. A sale by public auction, which was done under a spear, fixed up at the place of sale as a public sign of it Calvin.
  • SUBINFEUDATION
    The system which the feudal tenants introduced of granting smaller estates out of those which they held of their lord, to be held of themselves as Inferior lords. As this system was proceeding downward ad infinitum, and depriving the lords of their feudal profits, it was entirely suppressed by the More...
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