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  • 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...
  • SUS PER COLL
    An abbreviation of "SUSPENDATUR PER COLLUM" let him be hanged by the neck. Words formerly used in England in signing judgment against a prisoner who was to be executed; being written by the judge in the margin of the sheriff's calendar or list, opposite the prisoner's name. 4 Bl. Comm. More...
  • SUSPEND
    To interrupt; to cause to cease for a time; to stay, delay, or hinder; to discontinue temporarily, but with an expectation or purpose of resumption.' To for: bid a public officer, attorney, or ecclesiastical person from performing his duties or exercising his functions for a more or less definite interval More...
  • SUSPENDER
    In Scotch law. He in whose favor a suspension is made.
  • SUSPENSE
    When a rent profit d prendre; and the like, are, in consequence of the unity of possession of the rent, etc., of the land out of which they issue, not in esse for a time, they' are said to be in suspense, tiinc dormiunt; but they may be revived or More...
  • SUSPENSIVE CONDITION
    See CONDITION
  • SUSPICION
    The act of suspecting, or the state of being suspected; imagination, generally of something ill; distrust; mistrust ; doubt. McCalla v. State, 66 Ga. 3g&
  • SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER
    In the criminal laws of some of the states, a person who is known or strongly suspected to be an habitual criminal, or against whom there is reasonable cause to believe that he has committed a crime or is planning or intending to commit one, or whose actions and behavior More...
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