Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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er's part of the co-heirs, to perform suit and services for all the coparceners. Reg. Orig. 177. Seota quse scripto nititur a scripto variari non debet. Jenk. Cent. 65. A suit which is based upon a writing ought not to vary from the writing. SECTA REGALIS. A suit so called by which all persons were bound twice in the year to attend in the sheriff's tourn, in order that they might be informed of things relat ing to the public peace. It was so called be cause the sheriff's tourn was the king's leet, and it was held in order that the people might be bound by oath to bear true alle giance to the king. Cowell. SECTA UNICA TANTUM PACI ENDA PRO PLURIBUS ELffiREDI TATIBUS. A writ for an heir who was distrained by the lord to do more suits than one, that he should be allowed to do one suit only in respect of the land of divers heirs de scended to him. Cowell. SECTATORES. Suitors of court who, among the Saxons, gave their judgment or verdict in civil suits upon the matter of fact and law. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 22. SECTION. In text-books, codes, statutes, and other juridical writings, the smallest dis tinct and numbered subdivisions are com monly called "sections," sometimes "arti cles," and occasionally "paragraphs." SECTION OP LAND. In American land law. A division or parcel of land, on the government survey, comprising one square mile or 640 acres. Each "township" (six miles square) is divided by straight lines into thirty-six sections, and these are again divided into half-sections and quarter-sec tions. The general and proper acceptation of the terms "section," "half," and "quaiter section," as well as their construction by the general land depart ment, denotes the land in the sectional and sub divisional lines, and not the exact quantity which a perfect admeasurement of an unobstructed sur face would declare. 21 Ark. 327. SECTIS NON FACIENDIS. A writ which Jay for a dowress, or one in wardship, to be free from suit of court. Cowell. SECTORES. Lat. In Koman law. Purchasers at auction, or public sales. SECULAR. Not spiritual; not ecclesias tical ; relating 1 to affairs of the present world

holding sentiments or doctrines different from those of other sects or people." 16 Nev. 885. SECTA. In old English law. Suit; at tendance at court; the plaintiff's suit or fol lowing, i. e., the witnesses whom he was re quired, in the ancient practice, to bring with him and produce in court, for the purpose of confirming his claim, before the defendant was put to the necessity of answering the declaration. See 3 Bl. Comm. 295, 344; Bract, fol. 214a. A survival from this pro ceeding is seen in the formula still used at the end of declarations, "and therefore he brings his suit," (et indeproducit sectam.) This word, in its secondary meaning, sig nifies suit in the courts; lawsuit. SECTA AD CURIAM. A writ that lay against him who refused to perform his suit either to the county court or the court-baron. Gowell. SECTA AD FURNUM. In old English law. Suit due to a man's public oven or bake-house. 3 Bl. Comm. 235. SECTA AD JUSTICIAM FACIEN DAM. In old English law. A service which a man is bound to perform by his fee. SECTA AD MOLENDINUM. A writ which lay for the owner of a mill against the inhabitants of a place where such mill is sit uated, for not doing suit to the plaintiff's mill; that is, for not having their corn ground at it. Brown. SECTA AD TORRALE. In old En glish law. Suit due to a man's kiln or malt house. 3 Bl. Comm. 235. SECTA CURIAS. In old English law. Suit of court; attendance at court. The serv ice, incumbent upon feudal tenants, of at tending the lord at his court, both to form a jury when required, and also to answer for their own actions when complained of. Secta est pugna civilis; sicut actores armantur actionibus, et, quasi, gladiis accmguntur, ita rei muniuntur excep tionibus, et defenduntur, quasi, clypeis. Hob. 20. A suit is a civil warfare; for as the plaintiffs are armed with actions, and, as it were, girded with swords, so the defend ants are fortified with pleas, and are defend ed, as it were, by shields. SECTA FACIENDA PER ILLAM HABET ENICIAM PARTEM. writ to compel the heir, who has the eld

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