Tag: SI

  • Simpson V. Hartop

    Definition of Simpson V. Hartop ((1744), Willes, 512). Held, that the implements of trade are privileged from distress for rent if they be in actual use at the time, or if there be any other sufficient distress on the premises Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

  • Sic Utere Tuo Ut Alienum Non Laedas

    Definition of Sic Utere Tuo Ut Alienum Non Laedas So use your own property as not to injure your neighbour’s. See Rylands v. Fletcher Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Sic Utere Tuo Ut Alienum Non Laedas in the Dictionaries, Sic Utere Tuo Ut Alienum […]

  • Sign Manual

    Definition of Sign Manual The signature or royal hand of the King, as distinguished from the operation of signing documents by the Signet (fl..) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Sign Manual in the Dictionaries, Sign Manual in our legal […]

  • Signet

    Definition of Signet A seal with which certain documents are sealed by the principal Secretary of State on behalf of the King. Formerly, every Bill for letters patent, after being signed with the Sign Manual (q.v.), was sealed with the Signet, as a warrant or authority to the proper officer to […]

  • Signing Judgment

    Definition of Signing Judgment After judgment in an action in the King’s Bench Division, the successful party draws up two forms of judgment in accordance with the certificate of the associate and takes them to the proper officer, who signs one form of judgment and files it; after stamping the […]

  • Similiter

    Definition of Similiter In like manner : that set form of words used by the plaintiff or defendant in an action by which he signified his acceptance of the issue tendered by his opponent Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Similiter in the […]

  • Simony

    Definition of Simony The selling of such things as are spiritual, by giving something of a temporal nature for the purchase thereof (Stephen). e.g., the purchase of a next presentation to a living, as distinguished from the whole advowson. Simoniacal contracts are void and subject to […]

  • Simpson V. Hartop

    Definition of Simpson V. Hartop ((1744), Willes, 512). Held, that the implements of trade are privileged from distress for rent if they be in actual use at the time, or if there be any other sufficient distress on the premises Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

  • Sine Die

    Definition of Sine Die Without day : indefinitely. See Eat inde sine die Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Sine Die in the Dictionaries, Sine Die in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, […]

  • Sittings

    Definition of Sittings The sittings of the Supreme Court are four in number : the Hilary Sittings, commencing on January 11, and ending on the Thursday before Easter ; the Easter Sittings, commencing on the Tuesday after Easter Week and ending on the Friday before Whit Sunday ; the Trinity […]