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  • SUITORS' FUND IN CHANCERY
    In England. A fund consisting of moneys which, having been paid into the court of chancery, are placed out for the benefit and better security of the suitors, including interest from the same. By St 82 & 88 Vict c. 91, i 4, the principal of this fund, amounting to More...
  • SULCUS
    In old English law. A small brook or stream of water. CowelL
  • SULLERY
    In old English law. A plow land. 1 Inst 5.
  • SUM
    In English law. A summary or abstract; a compendium; a collection. Several of the old law treatises are called "sums." Lord Hale applies the term to summaries of statute law. Burrill.
  • SUMAGE
    Toll for carriage on horseback. Cowell. Summa carita est facere justitiam singulis, et omni tempore quando neceesse fuerit. The greatest charity is to do justice to every one, and at any time whenever it may be necessary. 11 Coke, 70. Summa est lex quse pro religions facit. That is the More...
  • SUMMARY
    n. An abridgment; brief; compendium; also a short application to a court or judge, without the formality of a full proceeding. Wharton.
  • SUMMARY
    adj. Immediate; peremptory ; off-hand ;without a jury; provisional; statutory. -----Summary actions. In Scotch law. Those which are brought into court not by summons, but by petition, corresponding to summary proceedings in English courts. Bell; Brown. -------Summary conviction. See CONVICTION. --------Summary jurisdiction. See JURISDICTION.-----Summary procedure on bills of exchange. This More...
  • SUMMER-HUS SILVER
    A payment to the lords of the wood on the Wealds of Kent, who used to visit those places in summer, when their under-tenants were bound to prepare little summer-houses for their reception, or else pay a composition in money. Cowell.
  • SUMMING UP
    On the trial of an action by a jury, is a recapitulation of the evidence adduced, in order to draw the attention of the jury to the salient points. The counsel for each party has the right of summing up his evidence, if he has adduced any, and the judge More...
  • SUMMON
    In practice. To serve a summons ; to cite a defendant to appear in court to answer a suit which has been begun against him; to notify the defendant that an action has been instituted against him, and that he is required to answer to it at a time and More...
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