Tag: SP

  • Speight, Re; Speight V. Gaunt

    Definition of Speight, Re; Speight V. Gaunt ((1883), L. R. 9 App. Cas. 1). A trustee employed a broker of good standing to purchase corporation bonds as an investment of the trust funds, the same being a proper investment. The broker sent in a contract note according to the rules of the Stock […]

  • Speight V. Oliviera

    Definition of Speight V. Oliviera ((1819), 2 Starkie, 493). Held, that if a master seduces his own servant, no action for seduction will lie unless the jury hold that the service was not a bona fide one, but merely a pretence for the purpose of gaining possession of the girl for the purpose of […]

  • Spencer V. Harding

    Definition of Spencer V. Harding ((1870), L. R. 5 C. P. 561). Held, that an announcement of sale by tender is not an offer to sell, and therefore cannot be accepted by sending in the highest tender Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Spencer V. […]

  • Spencer's Case

    Definition of Spencer’s Case ((1583), 5 Coke, 16). An assignee of a lease is not bound by a covenant as to a thing not in esse at the time it was made unless the assigns are expressly included in the covenant.Spencer, by indenture, demised a house and land to S for twentyone years, by which…

  • Sponsus

    Definition of Sponsus (betrothed). The man that intended to marry a woman stipulated with the person that was to give her in marriage that he would do so, and on his part promised to marry her. Sponsa was the woman thus promised ; sponsus the man that promised to marry her. Sponsalia denoted […]

  • Springing Use

    Definition of Springing Use See Use Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Springing Use in the Dictionaries, Springing Use in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal Thesaurus, Find […]

  • Spurii

    Definition of Spurii Bastards ; persons born out of lawful marriage. (Roman Law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Spurii in the Dictionaries, Spurii in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, […]

  • Spencer V. Harding

    Definition of Spencer V. Harding ((1870), L. R. 5 C. P. 561). Held, that an announcement of sale by tender is not an offer to sell, and therefore cannot be accepted by sending in the highest tender Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Spencer V. […]

  • Spencer's Case

    Definition of Spencer’s Case ((1583), 5 Coke, 16). An assignee of a lease is not bound by a covenant as to a thing not in esse at the time it was made unless the assigns are expressly included in the covenant.Spencer, by indenture, demised a house and land to S for twentyone years, by which…

  • Springing Use

    Definition of Springing Use See Use Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Springing Use in the Dictionaries, Springing Use in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal Thesaurus, Find […]