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  • SEVER
    To separate. When two joint defendants separate in the action, each pleading separately his own plea and relying upon a separate defense, they are said to seven.
  • SEVERABLE
    Admitting of severance or separation, capable of being divided; capable of being severed from other things to which it was joined, and yet maintaining a complete and independent existence.
  • SEVERAL
    Separate; Individual; independent In this sense the word is distinguished from "joint" Also exclusive; individual ; appropriated. In this sense it is opposed to *-common." -Several actions. Where a separate and distinct action is brought against , each of two or more persons who are all liable to the plaintiff More...
  • SEVERALTY
    A state of separation. An estate In severalty is one that is held, by a person in his own right only, without any bthet person being joined or connected with him, in point ot interest during his estate therein. 2 Bl. Comm. 179. The term "severalty" is especially applied in More...
  • SEVERANCE
    In pleading;. Separation; division. The separation by defendants in their pleas; the adoption, by several defendants, of separate pleas, instead of joining in the same plea. Steph. PI. 257. In estates. The destruction of any one of the unities of a joint tenancy. It is so called because the estate More...
  • SEWARD, OR SEAWARD
    One who guards the sea-coast; custos maris.
  • SEWER
    A fresh-water trench or little river, encompassed with banks on both sides, to drain off surplus water into the sea. Cowell. Properly, a trench artificially made for the purpose of carrying water into the sea, (or a river or pond.) Crabb, Real Prop, | 113. In its modern and more More...
  • SEX
    The distinction between male and female; or the property or character by which an animal is male or female. Webster.
  • SEXAGESIMA SUNDAY
    In ecclesiastical law. The second Sunday before Lent being about the sixtieth day before Easter.
  • SEXHINDENI
    In Saxon law. The middle thanes, valued at 600s.
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