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  • SUPERSTITIOUS USE
    In English law. When lands, tenements, rents, goods, or chattels are given, secured, or appointed for and towards the maintenance of a priest or chaplain to say mass, for the maintenance of a priest or other man to pray for the soul of any dead man in such a church More...
  • SUPERVISOR
    A surveyor or overseer; a highway officer. Also, in some state the chief officer of a town; one of a board of county officers. -Supervisors of election. Persons appointed and commissioned by the judge of the Circuit Court of the United States in cities or towns of over 20,000 inhabitants, More...
  • SUPPLEMENT, LETTERS OF
    In Scotch practice. A process by which a party not residing within the jurisdiction of an inferior court may be cited to appear before it. Bell.
  • SUPPLEMENTAL
    Something added to supply defects in the thing to which it is added, or in aid of which it is made. -Supplemental affidavit. An affidavit made in addition to a previous one, in order to supply some deficiency in it Gallan v. Lukens, 89 Pa. 136.-Supplemental answer. One which was More...
  • SUPPLETORY OATH
    See OATH
  • SUPPLIANT
    The actor in, or party preferring, a petition of right
  • SUPPLICATIO
    Lat In the civil law. A petition for pardon of a first offense; also a petition for reversal of judgment; also equivalent to "duplication which corresponds to the common law rejoinder. Calvin.
  • SUPPLICAVIT
    In English law. The name of a writ issuing out of the king's bench or chancery for taking sureties of the peace. It is commonly directed to the justices of the peace, when they are averse to acting in the affair in their judicial capacity. 4 Bl. Comm. 253.
  • SUPPLICIUM
    Lat In the civil law. Punishment; corporal punishment for crime. Death was called "ultimum supplicium" the last or extreme penalty.
  • SUPPLIES
    In English law. The "suppiles" in parliamentary proceedings signify the sums of money which are annually voted by the house of commons for the maintenance of the crown and the various public services. Jacob; Brown.
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