To adjust, ascertain, or liqui-date; to pay. Partles are sald to settle an account when they go over lts ltems and as-certaln and agree upon the balance due from one to the other. And, wheu the party ln-debted pays such balance, he ia also said to settle It. Auzerals v. Naglee, 74 Cal. 60, 15 Pac. 371; Jackson v. Ely, 57 ohlo St. 450, 49 N. E. 792; People v. Green, 5 Daly (N. Y.) 201; Lynch ▼. Nugent, 80 Iowa, 422, 46 N. W. 61
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To bring forward or allege, as somethlng relied upon or deemed sufficient; to propose or interpose, by way of defense, explanation, or justification; as, to set up the statute of limitations, i. e., offer and rely upon it as a defense to a clalm
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In Scotch law. The granter of a tack or lease. 1 Forb. Inst pt. 2, p. 153
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A counter-claim or cross-de-mand; a claim or demand which the defend-ant in an action sets off against the claim of the plaintiff, as being his due, whereby he may extinguish the plaintifTs demand, elther in whole or in part, according to the amount of the set-off. See In re Globe Ins. Co., 2 Edw. Ch. (N. Y.) 627; Sherman v. Hale, 76 Iowa, 383, 41 N. W. 48; Naylor v. Smlth, 63 N. J. Law, 596, 44 Atl. 649; Hurdle y. Hanner, 50 N. C. 360; wllls v. Browning, 96 Ind. 149
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In pleadlng. To recite or narrate facts or drcumstauces; to allege or aver; to describe or to lncorporate; as, to set out a deed or contract First Nat. Bank v. Engelbercht, 58 Neb. 639, 79 N. W. 556; U. S. v. watkins, 28 Fed. Cas. 436
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To set down a cause for trlal or hearlng at a given term is to enter ita tltle in the calendar, list, or docket of causes whlch are to be brought on at that term
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In mercantile law. Foreign bllls are usually drawn in duplicate or tripllcate, the several parts be-Ing called respectively “first of exchange,” “second of exchange,’* etc., and these parts together constitute a “set of exchange.” Any one of them being pald, the others become void
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The sitting of a court, legis-lature, council, commission, etc., for the transaction of its proper business. Hence, the period of time, within any one day, during which such body is assembled in form, and engaged in the transaction of business, or, in a more extended sense, the whole space-of time from its first assembling to lts pro-rogation or adjournment sine die
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To set aside a judgment, decree, award, or any proceedings is to can-cel, annul, or revoke them at the instance of a party unjustly or irregularly affected by them. State v. Primm, 61 Mo. 171; Brandt v. Brandt, 40 or. 477, 67 Pac. 508
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Lat in old English law. A sitting; a session. Sessio parliomenti, the slttlng of parliament Cowell
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Lat in the civil and old English law. A slave; a bondman. Inst. 1, 8, pr.; Bract fol. 4b
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In old Eng-lish practice. Servants or messengers of the marshal of the king's bench, sent out with bills or writs to summon persons to that court Now more commonly called "tip-staves.” Cowell
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1. The condition of be-lng bound to service; the state of a person who is subjected, voluntarily or otherwise, to another person as his servant
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Lat in feudal and old English law. The duty of obedience and per-formance which a tenant was bound to ren-der to hls lord, by reason of his fee. Spel-man
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A serving-man; particularly applied to students at oxford, upon the foundation, who are simiiar to sizars at Cam-bridge. wharton
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Serving; subject to a service or servitude. A servient estate is one which is burdened with a servitude
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In old Eng-lish practice. Serjeant at law
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Fr. These are, in French law, the easements of English law. Brown
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In Spanish law. A servitude. The right and use which one man has in the buildings and estates of an-other, to use them for the benefit of hls own. Las Partidas, 3, 31, 1
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