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  • 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...
  • SUMMONEAS
    L. Lat In old praetice. A writ of summons; a writ by which a party was summoned to appear in court.
  • SUMMONERS
    Petty officers, who dte and warn persons to appear In any court Fleta, lib. 9.
  • SUMMONITIO
    L. Lat In old English practice. A summoning or summons; a writ by which a party was summoned to appear in court of which there were various kinds. Spelman. Summonitiones aut citationes nulla lioeant fieri intra palatium regis. 3 Inst. 141. Let no summonses or citations be served within the More...
  • SUMMONITORES SCACCARII
    Officers who assisted in collecting the revenues by citing the defaulters therein into the court of exchequer.
  • SUMMUM JUS
    Lat. Strict right; extreme right. The extremity or rigor of the law. Summa Jus, summa injuria; summa lex, summa crux. Extreme law (rigor of law) is the greatest injury; strict law Is great punishment. Hob. 125. That is, Insistence upon the full measure of a man's strict legal rights may More...
  • SUMNER
    See SOMPNOUR
  • SUMPTUARY LAWS
    Laws made for the purpose of restraining luxury or extravagance, particularly against inordinate expenditures in the matter of apparel, food, furniture, etc.
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