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  • SUFFERENTIA PACIS
    Lat. A grant or sufferance of peace or truce.
  • SUFFERING A RECOVERY
    A recovery was effected by the party wishing te convey the land suffering a fictitious action to tie brought against him by the party to whom the land was to be conveyed, (the demandant,) and allowing the demandant to recover a judgment against him for the land in question. The More...
  • SUFFICIENT
    As to sufficient "Consideration" and "Evidence," see those titles.
  • SUFFRAGAN
    Bishops who In former times were appointed to supply the place of others during their absence on embassies or other business were so termed. They were consecrated as other bishops were, and were' anciently called "chore piscopi" or "bishops of the county," in contradistinction to the regular bishops of the More...
  • SUFFRAGE
    A vote; the act of voting; the right or privilege of casting a vote at public elections. The last is the meaning of the term in such phrases as "the extension of the suffrage," "universal suffrage." etc. See Spitzer v. Fulton, 33 Misc. Rep. 257, 68 N. Y. Supp. 660.
  • SUFFRAGIUM
    Lat In Roman law. A vote; the right of voting in the assemblies of the people. Aid or influence used or promised to obtain some honor or office; the purchase of office. Cod. 4, 3.
  • SUGGESTIO FALSI
    Lat. Suggestion or representation of that which is false; false representation. To recite in a deed that a will was duly executed, when it was not, is suggestio falsi; and to conceal from the heir that the will was not duly executed is suppressio veri. 1 P. Wnis. 240.
  • SUGGESTION
    In practice. A statement, formally entered on the record, of some fact or clrcuinstauce which will materially affect the further proceedings in the cause, or which Is necessary to be brought to the knowledge of the court in order to its right disposition of the action, but which, for some More...
  • SUGGESTIVE INTERROGATION
    A phrase which has been used by some writers to signify the same thing as "leading question." 2 Benth. Jud. Ev. b. 3, c. 3. It is used in the French law.
  • SUI GENERIS
    Lat. Of its own kind or class; i. e., the only one of its own kind; peculiar.
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