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  • SUBJECT
    In logic. That concerning which the affirmation in a proposition is made; the flrst word in a proposition. An individual matter considered as the object of legislation. The constitutions of several of the states require that every act of the legislature shall relate to but one subject, which shall be More...
  • SUBJECTION
    The obligation of one or more persons to act at the discretion or according to the judgment and will of others.
  • SUBJECT-MATTER
    The thing in controversy, or the matter spoken or written about. Sublata eansa tollitnr elfeotus. Co.' Litt. 303. The cause being removed the effect ceases. Sublata veneratione magis tratuum, respublloa mit. When respect for magistrates is taken away, the commonwealth falls. Jenk. Cent p. 43, case 81. Snblato fundamento oadit More...
  • SUBLEASE
    A lease by a tenant to another person of a part of the premises held by him; an under-lease.
  • SUBMISSION
    A yielding to authority. A citizen is bound to submit to the laws; a child to his parents. In practice. A submission is a covenant by which persons who have a lawsuit or difference with one another name arbitrators to decide the matter, and bind themselves reciprocally to perform what More...
  • SUBMIT
    To propound; as an advocate submits a proposition for the approval of the court. Applied to a controversy, it means to place it before a tribunal for determination.
  • SUBMORTGAGE
    When a person who holds a mortgage as security for a loan which he has made, procures a loan to himself from a third person, and pledges his mortgage as security, he effects what is called a "submortgage."
  • SUBNERVARE
    To ham-string by cutting the sinews of the legs and thighs. It was an old custom mere trices et impudi-cas mulieres subnervare. Wharton.
  • SUBNOTATIONS
    In the civil law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of law.
  • SUBORN
    In criminal law. To procure another to commit perjury. Steph. Crim. Law, 74.
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