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  • Sequestration

    Definition of Sequestration Legal process consisting of the temporary deprivation of a person of his property. It is a writ or commission directed to certain persons (usually four in number and one of them being usually a sheriff’s officer) nominated by the person prosecuting the judgment, and […]

  • Seised In Demesne As Of Fee

    Definition of Seised In Demesne As Of Fee One in whom an immediate freehold in severalty was vested for an estate in fee simple : an allegation in pleading, shortened in time to In fee simple. Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Seised In Demesne As […]

  • Seised In Demesne As Of Fee

    Definition of Seised In Demesne As Of Fee One in whom an immediate freehold in severalty was vested for an estate in fee simple : an allegation in pleading, shortened in time to In fee simple. Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Seised In Demesne As […]

  • Serjeants-at-Arms

    Definition of Serjeants-at-Arms Officers of the Crown, whose duty is nominally to attend the person of the Sovereign, to arrest traitors, and so on. Two of them attend the Houses of Parliament to execute the commands of each House Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

  • Semayne's Case

    Definition of Semayne’s Case ((1604), 5 Coke, 91). An Englishman’s home is his castle. The defendant was the owner and in possession, of a house in which were goods of one X, against whom the plaintiff had recovered judgment. The sheriff came to levy execution, but the defendant refused, to […]

  • Seisin

    Definition of Seisin Feudal possession ; the relation in which a person stands to land or other hereditaments, when he has in them an estate of freehold in possession. Formal legal ownership as opposed to mere possession or beneficial interest. Seisin in deed is actual possession of land. […]

  • Serjeants-at-Law

    Definition of Serjeants-at-Law Barristers of superior degree of the Order of the Coif, to which they were called by writ under the Great Seal. They formed an Inn called Serjeants’ Inn, with buildings in Fleet Street and Chancery Lane. Formerly they were supposed to serve the Crown (hence their […]

  • Semestria

    Definition of Semestria Half-yearly ordinances, the records of the half-yearly imperial council of senators. (Roman Law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Semestria in the Dictionaries, Semestria in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse […]

  • Seisina Facit Stipitem

    Definition of Seisina Facit Stipitem Seisin makes the stock of descent. The old rule was that when a person died intestate as to his land, it descended to the heir of the person who was last seised of it. See Descent Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription […]

  • Serjeanty

    Definition of Serjeanty (Norman-French, serjantie ; Latin, scrviens, a servant). Service: a form of tenure. See Grand Serjeanty,’ Petty Serjeanty Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Serjeanty in the Dictionaries, Serjeanty in our legal dictionaries, […]