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Shareholder
Shareholder, word 'shareholder' can mean only a registered shareholder. It is difficult to see how a beneficial owner of shares whose name does not appear in the register of shareholders of the company can be said...
Slavery
Slavery, that civil relation in which one man has absolute power over the liberty of another. It cannot subsist in England. See Sommersett's case, (1771-2) 20 St. Tr. 1; Lofft, 1; Broom's Const. Law, pp. 65...
Solitary confinement
Solitary confinement. The Criminal Law Consolida-tion Acts of 1861 each frequently provide for sentences of imprisonment 'with or without solit-ary confinement' in the discretion of the Court, and also that no offender shall be kept in...
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Stare decisis
Stare decisis, to abide by authorities or cases already adjudicated upon. The doctrine of precedent , under which it is necess-ary for a court to follow earlier judicial decisions when some points arise again in litigation,...
Suicide
Suicide. (1) Self-slaughter; (2) a self-slaughterer. See FELO DE SE. The act of taking one's own life, Black's Law Diction-ary, 7th Edn., p. 1447.
Quaerens nihil capiat per billam
Quaerens nihil capiat per billam, means let the plaintiff take nothing by his bill. This was a form of judgment for the defendant, Black's Law Diction-ary, 7th Edn., p. 1253.
To
To, means 'used to indicate the destination of the subject or object of an action: he claimed to the top', Collin's English Dictionary, p. 1525. To, means indicating anything regarded as a terminal point or limit...
Uses
Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It...
Usurpation
Usurpation, a keeping or holding by using that which is another's; an interruption of usucapio, or disturbing a man in his right and possession, etc. It is called instrusion in the civil and canon laws, Sand....
Veterinary Surgeon
Veterinary Surgeon [fr. veterinarius, concerned with veterinum, a beast of burden]. A person who treats the illnesses, etc., of animals. A Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons was incorporated in 1844, and supplemental charters were granted thereto...
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