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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Definition of Separate Estate Separate estate, or property belonging to a woman to her separate use, is property which belongs to a married woman as if she were a feme sole. She is entitled to the incomq of it, and may charge it, or dispose of it by deed or will, unless she is restrained…

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 […]

Definition of Seroka V. Kattenburg ((1886), 17 Q. B. D. 177). Held, that a husband us still liable for his wife’s post-nuptial torts, although section 1, sub-section 2 of the Married Women’s Property Act, 1882, made a married woman liable for her own torts. (Followed in Edwards v. Porter, 41 […]

Definition of Separation Deed A deed made between the husband and a trustee for the wife, and generally containing provisions for the allowance by the husband of an annuity for the wife, for his indemnification by the trustee against the wife’s debts, for the custody and education of the […]

Definition of Semble It appears. Used in judgments and test-books to introduce a proposition of law which is not intended to be stated definitely Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Semble in the Dictionaries, Semble in our legal dictionaries, […]