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Definition :

Scilicet [Lat., abbrev. Scil. Or sc., i.e., scire licet] (that is to say, to wit).

This is not a direct and separate clause, nor a direct and entire clause, in a conveyance, but intermedia; neither is it a substantive clause of itself, but it is rather to usher in the sentence of another, and to particularize that which was too general before, or distribute that which was too gross, or explain that which was doubtful; and it must neither increase nor diminish the premises nor habendum, for it gives nothing of itself; but it may make a restriction where the precedent words are not so very express but that they may be restrained, Hob. 171.