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  • SUPPLY, COMMISSIONERS OF
    Persons appointed to levy the land-tax in Scotland, and to cause a valuation roll to be annually made up, and to perform other duties in their respective counties. Bell.
  • SUPPLY, COMMITTEE OF
    In English law. All bills which relate to the public income or expenditure must originate with the house of commons, and all bills authorizing expenditure of the public money are based upon resolutions moved in a committee of supply, which is always a committee of the whole house. Wharton.
  • SUPPORT
    v. To support a rule or order is to argue in answer to the arguments of the party who has shown cause against a rule or order.
  • SUPPORT
    n. The right of support is an easement consisting in the privilege of resting the joints or beams of one's house upon, or inserting their ends into, the wall of an adjoining house belonging to another owner. It may arise either from contract or prescription. 3 Kent, Comm. 436. Support More...
  • SUPPRESSIO VERI
    Lat. Suppression or concealment of the truth. "It is a rule of equity, as well as of law, that a suppressio veri is equivalent to a suggestio falsi; and where either the suppression of the truth or the suggestion of what is false can be proved, in a fact material More...
  • SUPRA
    Lat. Above; upon. This word occurring by itself In a book refers the reader to a previous part of the book, like "ante;" it is also the initial word of several Latin phrases. -Supra protest. See PROTEST.-Supra-riparian. Upper riparian; higher up the stream. This term is applied to the estate, More...
  • SUPREMACY
    The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; paramount authority; sovereignty; sovereign power. -Act of supremacy. The English statute 1 Ells, c 1, whereby the supremacy and autonomy: of the crown in spiritual or ecclesiastical matters was declared and established.-Oath of supremacy. An oath to uphold More...
  • SUPREME POWER
    The highest authority in a state, all other powers in it being inferior thereto.
  • SUPREMUS
    Lat. Last; the last. Supremus est qnem nemo sequitar. He is last whom no one follows. Dig. 50,16, 92.
  • SUPREME COURT
    A court of high powers and extensive jurisdiction, existing in most of the states. In some it is the official style of the chief appellate court or court of last resort In others (as New Jersey and New York) the supreme court is a court of general original jurisdiction, possessing More...
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