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  • SURRENDEROR
    One who makes a surrender. One who yields up a copyhold estate for the purpose of conveying it.
  • SURREPTITIOUS
    Stealthily or fraudulently done, taken away, or introduced.
  • SURROGATE
    In English law. One that is substituted or appointed in the room of another, as by a bishop, chancellor, judge* etc.; especially an officer appointed to dispense licenses to marry without banns. 2 Steph. Comm. 247. In American law. The name given In some of the states to the judge More...
  • SURSISE
    L. Fr. In old English law. Neglect; omission; default; cessation.
  • SURSUM REDDERE
    Lat In old conveyancing. To render up; to surrender.
  • SURSUMREDDITIO
    Lat A surrender.
  • SURVIVOR
    One who survives another; one who outlives another; one of two or more persons who lives after the death of the other or others.
  • SURVIVORSHIP
    The living of one of two or more persons after the death of the other or others. Survivorship is where a person becomes entitled to property by reason of his having survived another person who had an interest in it The most familiar example is in the case of joint More...
  • SURVEY
    The process by which a parcel of land is measured and its contents ascertained ; also a statement of the result of such survey, with the courses and distances and the quantity of the land. In insurance law, the term "the survey" has acquired a general meaning, inclusive of what More...
  • SURVEYOR
    One who makes surveys of land; one who has the overseeing or care of another person's land or works. -Surveyor of highways. In English law. A person elected by the inhabitants of a parish, in vestry assembled, to survey the ' highways therein. He must possess certain qualifications in point More...
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