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Definition of Sus per coll. An abbreviation for suspendatur per collum : let him be hanged by the neck Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Sus in the Dictionaries, Sus in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European […]

Definition of Sutton V. Johnstone (IT. R. 493). An action will not lie against a party’s superior officer for acts done in the course of his duty.The plaintiff, a naval captain, sued his superior officer for having put him under arrest and imprisonment and so kept him nearly three years, until […]

Definition of Suicide The felony of self-murder Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Suicide in the Dictionaries, Suicide in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal Thesaurus, Find […]

Definition of Supreme Court Of Judicature The Court formed by the Judicature Act, 1873 (as modified by later Acts). It consists of two permanent divisions, viz., a Court of original jurisdiction, called the High Court of Justice, and a Court of appellate jurisdiction, called the Court of […]

Definition of Sui Juris An independent person not subject to any of the three forms of authority, potestas, manus, mancipium. (Roman law.) In English law, a person who can validly contract and bind himself by legal obligation uncontrolled by any other person Browse You might be interested in […]

Definition of Suit Any legal proceeding of a civil kind brought by one person against another ; an action, particularly in equity or for divorce.A bond or recognisance given to a public officer as security is said to be put in suit when proceedings are taken to enforce it Browse You might be […]

Definition of Suicide The felony of self-murder Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Suicide in the Dictionaries, Suicide in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal Thesaurus, Find […]

Definition of Suit Of Court A service theoretically due from every tenant of land forming part of, or held of, a manor, and consists in the duty of attending the Courts held by the lord. Manorial incidents are abolished by the Law of Property Act, 1922 Browse You might be interested in these […]