STRANGER, persons, contracts. This word has several significations. 1. A person born out of the United States; but in this sense the term alien is mor...
STORES. the victuals and provisions collected together for the subsistence of a ship's company, of a camp, and the like. STOUTHRIEFF, Scotch law. ...
STOPPAGE IN TRANSITU, contracts. This is the name of that act of a vendor of goods, upon a credit, who, on learning that the buyer has failed, resumes...
STIRPES, descents. The root, stem, or stock of a tree. Figuratively, it signifies, in law, that person from whom a family is descended, and also the k...
STIPULATION, contracts. In the Roman law, the contract of stipulation was made in the following manner, namely; the person to whom the promise was to ...
STEWS, Eng. law., Places formerly permitted in England to women of professed lewdness, and who, for hire, would prostitute their bodies to all comers....
STEP-DAUGHTER. In Latin privigna, is the daughter of one's wife, or of one's hushand. STEP-FATHER. In Latin vitricus, is the hushand of one...
STAYING PROCEEDINGS. The suspension of an action. 2. Proceedings are stayed absolutely or conditionally. 3. - 1. They are peremptorily stayed when the...
STATUTE MERCHANT, English law. A security entered before the mayor of London, or some chief warden of a city, in pursuance of 13 Ed. 1. stat. 3, c. 1,...
STATUS. The condition of persons. It also means estate, because it signifies the condition or circumstances in which the owner stands with regard to h...