Spittle

or SPITTLE. A charitable foundation; a hospital for diseased people; a hospital. Cowell

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Spiritualities Of A Bishop

Those profits which a bishop receives in hls ecclesiastical character, as the dues arising from hls ordaining and instituting priests, and such like, in contradistinction to those profits which he acquires in his temporal ca-pacity as a baron and lord of parliament, and which are termed hls “temporalities,” consisting of certain lands, revenues, and lay fees, etc. Cowell.

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Spirituality Of Benefices

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Spinster

The addition given, in legal proceedings, and in conveyancing, to a woman who never has been married

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Spiritual

Relating to religious or ecclesiastical persons or affairs, as distin-guished from “secular” or lay, worldly, or business matters

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Spes Recuperandi

Lat. The hope of recovery or recapture; the chance of re-taking property captured at sea, which pre-vents the captors from acquiring complete ownership of the property until they have definitely precluded it by effectual measures. 1 Kent, Comm. 101

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Spigurnel

The sealer of the royal writs

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Sperate

That of which there is hope. Thus a debt which one may hope to recover may be called “sperate,” in opposition to “desperate.” See 1 Chit. Pr. 520

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Spes Accrescendi

Lat. Hope of surviving. 3 Atk. 762 ; 2 Kent, Comm. 424

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Spelling

The formation of words hy letters; orthography. Incorrect spelling does not vitiate a written instrument if the in-tention clearly appears

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Spendthrift

A person who by excessive drinking, gaming, idleness, or de-hauchery of any kind shall so spend, waste, or lessen hls estate as to expose hlmself or hls famlly to want or suffering, or expose the town to charge or expense for the support of himself or family. Rev. St. VL c. 65, § 9; Appeal of Morey, 57 N. H. 54

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Speedy Execution

An execution which, by the direction of the judge at nisi prius, issues forthwith, or on some early day fixed upon by the judge for that pur-pose after the trial of the action. Brown

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Speedy Trial

In criminal law. As secured by constitutional guaranties, a speedy trial means a trial conducted according to fixed rules, regulations, and proceedings of law, free from vexatious, capricious, and op-pressive delays manufactured by the minis-ters of justice. See People v. Hall, 51 App. Div. 57, 64 N. Y. Supp. 433; Nixon v. State, 2 Smedes & M. (Miss.) 507, 41 Am. Dec. 601

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Speculative Damages

ES. See Damages

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Speculum

Lat Mirror or looking-giass. The title of several of the most ancient law-books or compilations, one of the ancient Icelandic books is styled “Speculum Regale”

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Specimen

A sample; a part of some-thing Intended to exhibit the kind and quali-ty of the whole. People ▼. Freeman, 1 Idaho, 322

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Speculation

In commerce. The act or practice of buying lands, goods, etc., in expectation of a rise of price and of selling them at an advance, as distinguished from a regular trade, in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and whole-sale prices, or tbe difference of price in the place where the goods are purchased, and the place where they are to be carried for market, webster. See Maxwell v. Burns (Tenn. Ch. App.) 59 S. W. 1067; U. S. v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. (C. C.) 124 Fed. 393

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Specificatio

Lat in the civil law. Literally, a maklng of form; a givlng of form to materials. That mode of acquiring property through which a persou, by trans-forming a thing belonging to another, es-pecially by working up hls materials into a new species, becomes proprietor of the same. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 27L

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Specification

As used in the law relating to patents and in building contracts, the term denotes a particular or detailed statement of the various elements involved

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Species

Lat in the civil law. Form; figure; fashion or shape. A form or shape given to materials

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Specific

Having a certain form or designation; observing-a certain form; particular; precise

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Specialty

A wrltlng sealed and de-Hvered, containing some agreement A writing sealed and delivered, which is given as a security for the payment of a debt, in which such debt is particularly specified. Bac. Abr. “obligation,” A

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Specie

1. Coin of the precious met-als, of a certain weight and fineness, and bearing the stamp of the government, de-noting its value as currency. Trebilcock ▼. wilson, 12 wall. 695, 20 L. Ed. 460; walkup v. Houston, 65 N. C. 501; Henry v. Bank of Salina, 5 Hill (N. Y.) 536

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Speaking With Prosecutor

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Special

Relating to or designating a species, kind, or sort; designed for aparticr-lar purpose; confined to a particular pur

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