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SUBORNATION OF PERJURY
In criminal law. The offense of procuring another to take such a false oath as would constitute perjury in the principal. See Stone v. State, 118 Ga. 705, 45 S. E. 630, 98 Am. St Rep. 145; State v. Fahey, 3 Pennewill (Del.) 594, 54 Ati. 690; State v. Geer, More...

In criminal law. The offense of procuring another to take such a false oath as would constitute perjury in the principal. See Stone v. State, 118 Ga. 705, 45 S. E. 630, 98 Am. St Rep. 145; State v. Fahey, 3 Pennewill (Del.) 594, 54 Ati. 690; State v. Geer, 46 Kan. 529, 26 Pac. 1027. Less...
SUBORNER
One who suborns or procures another to commit any crime, particularly to commit perjury.

One who suborns or procures another to commit any crime, particularly to commit perjury. Less...
SUBPOENA
The process by which the attendance of a witness is required is called a "subpoena." It is a writ or order directed to a person, and requiring his attendance at a particular time and place to testify as a witness. It may also require him to bring with him any More...

The process by which the attendance of a witness is required is called a "subpoena." It is a writ or order directed to a person, and requiring his attendance at a particular time and place to testify as a witness. It may also require him to bring with him any hooks, documents, or other things under his control which he is bound by law to produce in evidence. Code Civ. Proc Cat | 1985. See Dishaw v. Wadleigh, 15 App. Div. 205, 44 N. Y. Supp. 207; Alexander T. Harrison, 2 Ind. App. 47, 28 N. E. 119; Bleecker v. Carroll, 2 Abb. Prac. (N. Y.) 82. In ohancery practice. A mandatory writ or process directed to and requiring one or more persons to appear at a time to come and answer the matters charged against him or them. -Subpoena ad testificandum. Subpoena to testify. The common subpoena requiring tbe attendance of a witness on a trial, inquisition, or examination. 3 Bl. Comm. 369; In re Strauss, 30 App. Div. 610, 52 N. Y. Supp, 392.-Subpoena duces tecum. A subpoena used, not only for the purpose of compelling witnesses to attend in court, but also requiring them to bring with them books or documents which may be in their possession, and which may tend to elucidate the subject-matter of the triaL Brown; 3 Bl. Comm. 382. Less...
SUBREPTIO
Let In the civil law. Obtaining gifts of escheat, etc., from the king by concealing the truth. Bell; Calvin.

Let In the civil law. Obtaining gifts of escheat, etc., from the king by concealing the truth. Bell; Calvin. Less...
SUBREPTION
In French law. The fraud committed to obtain a pardon, title, or grant, by alleging facts contrary to truth.

In French law. The fraud committed to obtain a pardon, title, or grant, by alleging facts contrary to truth. Less...
SUBROGATION
The substitution of one thing for another, or of one person into the place of another with respect to rights, claims, or securities. Subrogation denotes the putting a third person who has paid a debt in the place, of the creditor to whom he has paid it so. as that More...

The substitution of one thing for another, or of one person into the place of another with respect to rights, claims, or securities. Subrogation denotes the putting a third person who has paid a debt in the place, of the creditor to whom he has paid it so. as that he may exercise against the debtor all the rights which the creditor, if unpaid, might have done. Brown. The equity by which a person who is secondarily liable for a debt, and has paid it, is put in the place of the creditor, so as to entitle him to make use of all the securities and remedies possessed by the creditor, in order to enforce the right of exoneration as against the principal debtor, or of contribution against others who are liable in the same rank as himself. Bisp. i 335. And see Fuller v. Davis, 184 111. , 56 N. E. 791: Ohaffe v. Oliver, 39 Ark. 542; CockVum v. West, 122 Ind. 372, 23 N. E. 140: Mansfield v. New York, 165 N. Y. 208, 58 N. B. 889: Knighton v. Curry, 62 Ala, 404; Gatewood v. Gatewood, 75 Va. 411. Subrogation is of two kinds, either conventional or legal; the former being where the subrogation is express, by the acts of the creditor and the third person; the latter being (as In the case of sureties) where the subrogation is effected or implied by the operation of the law. See Gordon v. Stewart, 4 Neb. (Unof.) 852, 96 N. W. 628; Connecticut Mut L. Ins. Co. v. Cornwell, 72 Hun, 199, 25 N. Y. Supp. 348; Seeley v. Bacon (N. J. Ch.) 34 Atl. 140; Home Sav. Bank v. Bier-stadt 168 111. 618, 48 N. E. 161, 61 Am. St Rep. 146. Less...
SUBROGEE
A person who is subrogated; one who succeeds to the rights of another by subrogation.

A person who is subrogated; one who succeeds to the rights of another by subrogation. Less...
SUBSCRIBE
In the law of contracts. To write under; to write the name under; to write the name at the bottom or end of a writing. Wild Cat Branch v. Ball, 45 Ind. 213; Davis v. Shields, 26 Wend. (N. Y.) 841.

In the law of contracts. To write under; to write the name under; to write the name at the bottom or end of a writing. Wild Cat Branch v. Ball, 45 Ind. 213; Davis v. Shields, 26 Wend. (N. Y.) 841. Less...
SUBSCRIBER
One who writes his name under a written instrument; one who affixes his signature to any document, whether for the purpose of authenticating or attesting it, of adopting its terms as his own expressions, or of binding himself by an engagement which it contains.

One who writes his name under a written instrument; one who affixes his signature to any document, whether for the purpose of authenticating or attesting it, of adopting its terms as his own expressions, or of binding himself by an engagement which it contains. Less...
SUBSCRIBING WITNESS
He who witnesses or attests the signature of a party to an instrument and in testimony thereof subscribes his own name to the document. A subscribing witness is one who sees a writing executed, or hears it acknowledged, and at the request of the party thereupon signs his name as More...

He who witnesses or attests the signature of a party to an instrument and in testimony thereof subscribes his own name to the document. A subscribing witness is one who sees a writing executed, or hears it acknowledged, and at the request of the party thereupon signs his name as a witness. Code Civ. Proc Cal. 1935 Less...

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