Lat. In the Roman and oivil law. A sign; a mark; a seal. The seal of an instrument. Calvin
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In French law. The notice given of a decree, sentence, or other judicial act
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In ecclesiastical law. when this word is used alone, it means thp
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A seal commonly used for the sign manual of the sovereign, wharton, The signet is also used for the purpose of civil justice in Scotland. Bell
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In English law. The signature or subscription of the king is term* ed hls “sign-manual.” There is this differ-ence between what the sovereign does under the sign manual and what he or she does under the great seal, viz., that the former is done as a personal act of the sovereign; the latter as an act of state. Brown
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Lat in Roman law. Marks or signs of abbreviation used in writing. Cod. 1, 17, 11, 13
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To affix one’s name to a writing or instrument, for the purpose of authend-cating it, or to give it effect as one’s act
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In old English law, a seal, or a contracted or abbreviated signature used as a seal
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Lat in old English law. A seal; originally and properly a seal Impressed upon wax
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Span. In Spanlsh law. A slave. Las Partidas, pt. 4, tlt. 21, 1. 1
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A walk for foot passen-gers at the slde of a street or road. See Kohlhof v. Chicago, 192 111. 249, 61 N. E. 446, 85 Am. St. Rep. 335; Challlss v. Parker, 11 Kan. 391; State v. Berdetta, 73 Ind. 185, 38 Am. Rep. 117; Pequignot v. Detroit (C. C.) 16 Fed. 212
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An obsolete form of the word “scion,” meaning offspring or descendant Co. Lltt 123a
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A term sometimes ap-plied to unofficial volumes or series of re-ports, as contrasted witli those prepared hy tlie ofllcial reporter of the court, or to collec-tions of cases omitted from the official re-ports
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In ecclesiastical law. These were originally persons whom, in the ancient episcopal synods, the bishops were wont to summon out of each parish to give informa-tion of the disorders of the clergy and people, and to report heretics. In process of time they became standing officers, under the title of “synodsmen,” “sidesmen," or “quest-men.” The whole of thelr dutles seems now to have devolved by custom upon the church-wardens of a parish. 1 Burn, Ecc. Law, 399
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In English practice. There are some rules whlch the courts authorize their ofilcers to grant as a matter of course without formal application heing made to them in open court, and these are technically termed “side-bar rules,” because
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In mining law, the side lines of a mining claim are those which measure the extent of the claim on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface. They are not necessarily the side lines as laid down on the ground or on a tnap or plat; for if the claim, In its longer dimen-siou, crosses the vein, Instead of following lt, the platted side lines will be treated in law as the end lines, and vice versa, bee Argentine Min. Co. v. Terrible Min. Co., 122 U. S. 478, 7 Sup. Ct 1356, 30 L. Ed. 1140; Del Monte Min. Co. v. Last Chance Min. Co., 171 U. S. 55, 18 Sup. Ct. 895, 43 L. Ed. 72
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The same court is sometimes said to have different sides; that is, different provinces or fields of jurisdiction. Thus, an admiralty court may have an “instance side,” distinct from Its powers as a prize court; the “crown side,” (criminal jurisdiction) is to be distinguished from the “plea side,” (civil Jurisdlction;) the same court may have an “equlty side” and a “law side.”
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Disease; malady; any morbid condition of the body (Including insanity! which, for the time being, hinders or pre-vents the organs from normally discharging their several functions. L. R. 8 Q. B. 295
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Lat As at another time, or heretofore. This was a second writ sent out when the first was not executed. Cow-ell
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A little current of water, whlch is dry in summer; a water furrow or gutter. Cowell
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A sort of money current among the ancient English, of the value of 2d
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