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  • SUBSIDY
    In English law. An aid, tax, or tribute granted by parliament to the king for the urgent occasions of the kingdom, to be levied on every subject of ability, according to the value of his lands or goods. Jacob. In American law. A grant of money made by government In More...
  • SUBSTANCE
    Essence; the material or essential part of a thing, as distinguished from "form." See State v. Burgdoerfer, 107 Mo. 1, 17 S. W. 646, 14 L, R. A. 846; Hugo v. Miller, 50 Minn. 105, 52 N. W. 381: Plerson v. Insurance Co., 7 Houst. (Del.) 307, 31 Atl. 966.
  • SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES
    A sum, assessed by way of damages, which Is worth having; opposed to nominal damages, which are assessed to satisfy a bare legal rigbt. Wharton.
  • SUBSTANTIVE LAW
    That part of the law which the courts are established to administer, as opposed to the rules according to which the substantive law Itself is administered. Thrt part of the law which creates, defines, and regulates rights, as opposed to adjective or remedial law, which prescribes the method of enforcing More...
  • SUBSTITUTE
    One appointed in the place or stead of another, to transact business for him; a proxy. A person hired by one who has been drafted into the military service of the country, to go to the front and serve In the army In his stead.
  • SUBSTITUTED EXECUTOR
    One appointed to act in the place of another executor upon the happening of a certain event; e. p., if the latter should refuse the office.
  • SUBSTITUTED SERVICE
    In English practice. Service of process made under authorization of the court upon some other person, when the person who should he served cannot be found or cannot be reached. In Amerioan law. Service of process upon a defendant in any manner, authorized by statute, other than personal service within More...
  • SUBSTITUTES
    In Scotch law. The person flrst called or nominated in a tailzie {entailment of an estate upon a number of heirs in succession) is called the "institute" or "heir-institute;" the rest are called "substitutes."
  • SUBSTITUTIO HAEREDIS
    Lat In Roman law, It was competent for a testator after instituting a hares (called the "hatres institutus") to substitute auother (called the "haeres substitutus") in his place in a certain event. If the event upon which the substitution was to take effect was the refusal of the instituted heir More...
  • SUBSTITUTION
    In the civil law. The putting one person in place of another; particularly, the act of a testator in naming a second devisee or legatee who is to take the bequest either on failure of the original devisee or legatee or after him. In Scotch law. The enumeration or designation More...
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