Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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SCHOOL BOARD

SCALAM

hibiting in detail the matters mentioned oi referred to in the principal document. A list or inventory; the paper containing an inventory. In practice. When an indictment is re turned from an inferior court in obedience to a writ of certiorari, the statement of the previous proceedings sent with it is termed the "schedule." 1 Saund. 309a, n. 2. In constitutional law. A schedule is a statement annexed to a constitution newly adopted by a state, in which are described at length the particulars in which it differs from the former constitution, or which con tains provisions for the adjustment of mat ters affected by the change from the old to the new constitution. SCHEME. In English law, a scheme is a document containing provisions for regu lating the management or distribution of property, or for making an arrangement be tween persons having conflicting rights. Th'us, in the practice of the chancery divis ion, where the execution of a charitable trust in the manner directed by the founder is dif ficult or impracticable, or requires supervis* ion, a scheme for the management of the charity will be settled by the court. Tud. Char. Trusts, 257; Hunt, Eq. 248; Daniell, Ch. Pr. 1765. SCHETES. Usury. Cowell. SCHIREMAN- In Saxon law. An of ficer having the civil government of a shire t or county; an earl. 1 Bl. Comm. 398. SCHIRRENS-GELD. In Saxon law. A tax paid to sheriffs for keeping the shire or county court. Cowell. SCHISM-BILL. In English law. The name of an act passed in the reign of Queen Anne, which restrained Protestant dissenters from educating their own children, and for bade all tutors and schoolmasters to be pres ent at any conventicle or dissenting place of worship. The queen died on the day when this act was to have taken effect, (August 1, 1714,) and it was repealed in the fifth year of Geo. I. Wharton. SCHOOL. An institution of learning of a lower grade, below a college or a universi ty. A place of primary instruction. Tin term generally refers to the common or pub lic schools, maintained at the expense of the public. SCHOOL BOARD. A board of munic ipal officers charged with the administration

SCALAM. At the scale; the old way of paying money into the exchequer. Cowell. SCALE. In early American law. To ad just, graduate, or value according to a scale. 2 Wash. (Va.)5,8. SCAMNUM CADUCUM. In old rec ords, the cucking-stool, (q. v.) Cowell. SCANDAL. Defamatory reports or ru mors; aspersion or slanderous talk, uttered recklessly or maliciously. In pleading. "Scandal consists in the al legation of anything which is unbecoming the dignity of the court to hear, or is con trary to good manners, or which charges some person with a crime not necessary to be shown in the cause; to which may be added that any unnecessary allegation, bear ing cruelly upon the moral character of an individual, is also scandalous." Daniell, Ch. Pr. 290. SCANDALOUS MATTER. In equity pleading. See SCANDAL. SCANDALUM MAGNATUM. In En glish law. Scandal or slander of great men or nobles. "Words spoken in derogation of a peer, a judge, or other great officer of the realm, for which an action lies, though it is now rarely resorted to. 3 Bl. Comm. 123; 8 Steph. Comm. 473. SCAPELLARE. In old European law. to chop; to chip or haggle. Spelman. SCAPHA. Lat. In Roman law. A boat; a lighter. A ship's boat. SCAVAGE, SCHEVAGE, SCHE WAGE, or SHEWAGE. A kind of toll or custom, exacted by mayors, sheriffs, etc., of merchant strangers, for wares showed or offered for sale within their liberties. Pro hibited by 19 Hen. VII. c. 7. Cowell. SCAVAIDUS. The officer who collected the scavage money. Cowell. SCEATTA. A Saxon coin of less denom ination than a shilling. Spelman. SCEPPA SALIS. An ancient measure of salt, the quantity of which is now not known. Wharton. SCHAR-PENNY, SCHARN-PENNY, or SCHORN-PENNY. A small duty or compensation. Cowell. SCHEDULE. A sheet of paper or parch ment annexed to a statute, deed, answer in equity, deposition, or other instrument, ex

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