Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

SENATUS CONSULTUM, ETC.

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SEKStJS VERBORUM, ETC.

Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 33; Hunter, Rom. Law, xlvii; Inst. 1, 2, 5. SENATUS CONSULTUM MARCI ANUM. In Roman law. A decree of the senate, in relation to the celebration of the Bacchanalian mysteries, enacted in the con sulate of Q. Marcius and S. Postumus. SENATUS CONSULTUM ORFICI ANUM. In Roman law. An enactment of the senate (Orflcius being one of the consuls and Marcus Antoninus emperor) for admit ting both sons and daughters to the succes sion of a mother dying intestate. Inst. 3, 4, pr. SENATUS CONSULTUM PEGASI ANUM. In the civil law. The Pegasian decree of the senate. A decree enacted in the consulship of Pegasus and Pusio, in the reign of Vespasian, by which an heir, who was requested to restore an inheritance, was allowed to retain one-fourth of it for himself. Inst. 2, 23, 5. SENATUS CONSULTUM TREBEL LIANUM. Lat. In Roman law. A decree of the senate (named from Trebellius, in whose consulate it was enacted) by which it was provided that, if an inheritance was re stored under a trust, all actions which, by the civil law, might be brought by or against the heir should be given to and against him to whom the inheritance was restored. Inst. 2, 23, 4; Dig. 36, 1. SENATUS CONSULTUM ULTIMiE NECESSITATIS. A decree of the senate of the last necessity. The name given to the decree which usually preceded the nomination of a dictator. 1 Bl. Comm. 136. SENATUS CONSULTUM VELLEI ANUM. In the civil law. The Velleian decree of the senate. A decree enacted in the consulship of Velleius, by which married women were prohibited from making con tracts. Story, Confl. Laws, § 425. SENATUS DECRETA. In the civil law. Decisions of the senate. Private acts concerning particular persons merely. SENDA. In Spanish law. A path; the right of a path. The right of foot or horse path. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 6, § 1. SENESCALLUS. In old English law. A seneschal; a steward; the steward of a manor. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 72. SENESCHAL. In old European law. A title of office and dignity, derived from the

middle ages, answering to that of steward or high steward in England. Seneschals were . originally the lieutenants of the dukes and other great feudatories of the kingdom, and sometimes had the dispensing of justice and high military commands. SENESCHALLO ET MARESHALLO QUOD NON TENEAT PLACITA DE LIBERO TENEMENTO. A writ ad dressed to the steward and marshal of Eng land, inhibiting them to take cognizance of an action in their court that concerns free hold. Reg. Orig. 185. Abolished. SENEUCIA. In old records. Widow hood. Cowell. SENILE DEMENTIA. That peculiar decay of the mental faculties which occurs in extreme old age, and in many cases much earlier, whereby the person is reduced to sec ond childhood, and becomes sometimes wholly incompetent to enter into any binding con tract, or even to execute a will. It is the re currence of second childhood by mere decay. 1 Redf. Wills, 63. SENILITY. Incapacity to contract aris ing from the impairment of the intellectual faculties by old age. SENIOR. Lord; a lord. Also the elder An addition to the name of the elder of two persons having the same name. SENIOR COUNSEL. Of two or more counsel retained on the same side of a cause, he is the "senior" who is the elder, or more important in rank or estimation, or who is charged with the more difficult or important parts of the management of the case. SENIOR JUDGE. Of several judges composing a court, the "senior" judge is the one who holds the oldest commission, or who has served the longest time under his present commission. SENIORES. In old English law. Sen iors; ancients; elders. A term applied to the great men of the realm. Spelman. SENORIO. In Spanish law. Dominion or property. SENSU HONESTO. In an honest sense. To interpret words sensu honesto is to take them so as not to impute impropriety to the persons concerned. Sensus verborum est anima legis. 5 Coke, 2. The meaning of the words is the spirit of the law.

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