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SUDDEN HEAT OF PASSION
In the common-law definition of manslaughter, this phrase means an access of rage or anger, suddenly arising from a contemporary provocation. It means that the provocation must arise at the time of the killing, and that the passion is not the result of a former provocation, and the act must More...

In the common-law definition of manslaughter, this phrase means an access of rage or anger, suddenly arising from a contemporary provocation. It means that the provocation must arise at the time of the killing, and that the passion is not the result of a former provocation, and the act must be directly caused by the passion arising out of the provocation at the time of the homicide. It is not enough that the mind is agitated by passion arising from a former or other provocation or a provocation given by some other person. Stell v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 58 S. W. 75. And see Farrar v. State, 29 Tex. App. 250, 15 S. W. 719; Violett v. Comm. (Ky.) 72 S. W. 1; State v. Cheatwood, 2 Hill. Law (S. C.) 402. Less...
SUDDER
In Hindu law. The best; the fore-court of a house; the chief seat of government, contradistinguished from "mofus-sil" or interior of the country; the presidency. Wharton.

In Hindu law. The best; the fore-court of a house; the chief seat of government, contradistinguished from "mofus-sil" or interior of the country; the presidency. Wharton. Less...
SUE
To prosecute by law; to commence legal proceedings against a party. It is applied almost exclusively to the institution and prosecution of a civil action. See Challenor v. Niles, 78 111. 78; Murphy v. Cochran, 1 Hill (N. Y.) 342; Kuklence v. Vocht, 4 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 372; U. More...

To prosecute by law; to commence legal proceedings against a party. It is applied almost exclusively to the institution and prosecution of a civil action. See Challenor v. Niles, 78 111. 78; Murphy v. Cochran, 1 Hill (N. Y.) 342; Kuklence v. Vocht, 4 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 372; U. S. v. Moore (C. C.) 11 Fed. 251. ----Sue out. To obtain by application; to petition for and take out. Properly the term is applied only to the obtaining and issuing of such process as is only accorded npon an application first made: but conventionally it is also used of the taking out of process which issues of course. The term is occasionally used of instruments other than writs. Thus, we speak of "suing out" a pardon. See South Missouri Lumber Co. v. Wright, 114 Mo. 320. 21 S. W. 811; Kelley v. Vincent, 8 Ohio St. 420; I S. v. American Lumber Co., 85 Fed. 830, 29 C. C. A. 431. Less...
SUERTE
In Spanish law. A small lot of ground. Particularly, such a lot within the limits of a city or .town used for cultivation or pianting as a garden, vineyard or orchard. Building lots in towns and cities are called "solares." Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 554.

In Spanish law. A small lot of ground. Particularly, such a lot within the limits of a city or .town used for cultivation or pianting as a garden, vineyard or orchard. Building lots in towns and cities are called "solares." Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 554. Less...
SUFFER
To suffer an act to be done, by a person who can prevent it, is to permit or consent to it; to approve of it, and not to hinder it. It Implies a willingness of the mind. See In re Rome Planing Mill (C. C.) 96 Fed. 815; Wilson v. More...

To suffer an act to be done, by a person who can prevent it, is to permit or consent to it; to approve of it, and not to hinder it. It Implies a willingness of the mind. See In re Rome Planing Mill (C. C.) 96 Fed. 815; Wilson v. Nelson, 183 U. S. 191, 22 Sup. Ct. 74, 46 L. Ed. 147; Selleck v. Selleck, 19 Conn. 505; Gregory v. U. S., 10 Fed. Cas. 1197; In re Thomas (D. C.) 103 Fed. 274. Less...
SUFFERANCE
Toleration; negative permission by not forbidding; passive consent ; license implied from the omission or neglect to enforce an adverse right. -Sufferance wharves. In English law. These are wharves in which goods may be landed before any duty is paid. They are appointed for the purpose by the commissioners of More...

Toleration; negative permission by not forbidding; passive consent ; license implied from the omission or neglect to enforce an adverse right. -Sufferance wharves. In English law. These are wharves in which goods may be landed before any duty is paid. They are appointed for the purpose by the commissioners of the customs. 2 Steph. Comm. 500, note. Less...
SUFFERENTIA PACIS
Lat. A grant or sufferance of peace or truce.

Lat. A grant or sufferance of peace or truce. Less...
SUFFERING A RECOVERY
A recovery was effected by the party wishing te convey the land suffering a fictitious action to tie brought against him by the party to whom the land was to be conveyed, (the demandant,) and allowing the demandant to recover a judgment against him for the land in question. The More...

A recovery was effected by the party wishing te convey the land suffering a fictitious action to tie brought against him by the party to whom the land was to be conveyed, (the demandant,) and allowing the demandant to recover a judgment against him for the land in question. The vendor, or conveying party, in thus assisting or permitting the demandant so to recover a judgment against him, was thence technically said to "suffer a recovery." Brown. Less...
SUFFICIENT
As to sufficient "Consideration" and "Evidence," see those titles.

As to sufficient "Consideration" and "Evidence," see those titles. Less...
SUFFRAGAN
Bishops who In former times were appointed to supply the place of others during their absence on embassies or other business were so termed. They were consecrated as other bishops were, and were' anciently called "chore piscopi" or "bishops of the county," in contradistinction to the regular bishops of the More...

Bishops who In former times were appointed to supply the place of others during their absence on embassies or other business were so termed. They were consecrated as other bishops were, and were' anciently called "chore piscopi" or "bishops of the county," in contradistinction to the regular bishops of the city or see. The practice of creating suffragan bishops, after having long been discontinued, was recently revived ; and such bishops are now permanently "assistant" to the. bishops. Brown. A suffragan is a titular bishop ordained to aid and assist the bishop of the diocese in his spiritual function: or one who supplieth the place instead of tne bishop, by whose suffrage ecclesiastical causes or matters committed to him are to be adjudged, acted on, or determined. Some writers call these suffragans by the name of "subsidiary bishops." Tomlins. Less...

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