Criminal jBlaves in the time of Henry L 1 Kemble, Sax. 197, (1849
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In oontraots. The being' em-ployed to serve another; duty or labor to be rendered by one person to another
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In Scotch practice. To render a verdict or decision in favor of a person claiming to be an heir; to declare the fact of hls heirship Judicially. A jury are said to serve a claimant heir, when they find him to be heir, upon the evidence submitted to them. Bell
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Notched on the edge; cut in notches like the teeth of a saw. This was anciently the method of trimming the top or edge of a deed of indenture. See Induct, v
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A servant is one who is employed to render personal servlces to hls employer, otherwise than in the pursuit ot an independent calling, and who in such service remains entirely under the control and direction of the latter, who is called his master. Civ. Code Cal. f 2009.
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A test for Insanity by means of the breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood of the sus-pected person on the lnjectlon of the venom ot cobras or other serpents; recently employed in judicial proceedlngs in some European countries and in Japan
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The same word etymologic-ally with “sergeant,” but the latter spelling is more commonly employed in the deslgna-tlon of military and police officers, (see Seb-geant,) while the former is preferred when the term is used to describe certain grades of legal practitioners and certain officers of legislative bodies. See infra
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A species of tenure by knight service, which was due to the king only, and was distinguished Into grand and petit serjeanty. The tenant holding hy grand serjeanty was bound, Instead of attending the king generally in his wars, to do some honorary service to the king in person, as to carry hls banner or sword, or to be hls butler, champlon, or other officer at his coronation. Petit serjeanty differed from grand serjeanty, in that the service rendered to the king was not of a personal nature, but consisted in rendering bim annually some small implement of war, as a bow, sword, arrow, lance, or the like. Cowell; Brown
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Lat Severally; separately; individually; one by one
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Important; weighty; momentous, and not trifling; as in the phrases “serl-ous bodily harm,” “serious personal Injury,” etc. Lawlor v. People, 74 111. 231; Union Mut. L. Ins. Co. v. wilkinson, 13 wall. 230, 20 L. Ed. 617
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In the feudal polity, the serfs were a class of persons whose social con-dition was servile, and who were bouud to labor and onerous duties at the will of thelr lords. They differed from slaves only in that they were bound to their native soil, in-stead of being the absolute property of a master
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In military law. A non-commissioned officer, of whom there are several In each company of lnfantry, troop of cavalry, etc. The term is also used in the organization of a municipal police force
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one to whom a sequestration is made, one appointed or chosen to perform a sequestration, or execute a writ of sequestration
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In English ecclesiastical law. A Judicial writ for the discharging a sequestration of the profits of a church benefice, granted by the bishop at the sovereign's command, thereby to corn-pel the parson to appear at the suit of an-other. Upon hls appearance, the parson may have this writ for the release of the sequestration. Reg. Jud. 36
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Lat in the civil law. The separating or setting aside of a thing in ■controversy, from the possession of both par-ties that contend for it It is twofold,— voluntary, done by consent of all parties; and necessary, when a judge orders it Brown
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In equity prao-ticc. A writ authorizing the taking Into the ■custody of the law of the real and personal estate (or rents, issues, and profits) of a de-fendant who is in contempt, and holding the same until he shall comply. It is sometimes directed to the sheriff, but more commonly to four commissioners nominated by the com-plalnant. 3 Bl. Comm. 444; Ryan v. Klngs-hery, 88 Ga. 361, 14 S. E. 596
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Small allowances of meal, or manufactured victual, made to the servants at a mill where corn was ground, by tenure, in Scotland. lVharton
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In Euglish ecclesiastical practlce. A process in the na-ture of a levari facias, commanding the blsh-op to enter Into the rectory and parish church, and to take and sequester the same, and hold them until, of the rents, tithes, and profits thereof, and of the other ecclesiastical goods of a defendant, he have levied the plaintiff’s debt 3 Bl. Comm. 418; 2 Archb. Pr. 1284
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L. Lat. In old English law. Suit; process or prosecution. Sequela cans#, the process of a cause. Cowell
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A grave or tomb. The place of Interment of a dead human body. The violation of sepulchres is a misdemeanor at common law
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Lat An offering to the priest for the burial of a dead body
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