Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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SINGULAB TITLE. The title by which a party acquires property as a singu lar successor. SINKING FUND. The aggregate of sums of money (as those arising from par ticular taxes or sources of revenue) set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a govern ment or corporation, by the accumulation of interest. SIPESSOCUA. In old English law. A franchise, liberty, or hundred. SIST, v. In Scotch practice. To stay proceedings. Bell. SIST, n. In Scotch practice. A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings. Bell. SISTEB. A woman who has the same father and mother with another, or has one of them only. The word is the correlative of "brother." SIT. To hold a session, as of a court, grand jury, legislative body, etc. To be formally organized and proceeding with the transaction of business. SITHCUNDMAM. The high constable of a hundred. SITTINGS. In practice. The helding of a court, with full form, and befoie all the judges; as a sitting in bane. '6 Steph. Comm. 423. The holding of a court of nisi prius by one or more of the judges of a superior court, instead of the ordinary nisi prius judge. 3 Steph. Comm. 422. SITTINGS AFTEB TEBM. Sittings in bane alter term were held by authority of the St. 1 & 2 Viet. c. 32. The courts were at liberty to transact business at their sittings as in term-time, but the custom was to dis pose only of cases standing for argument or judgment. Whaiton. SITTINGS IN BANK or BANC. The sessions of a court, with the full bench present, for the purpose of determining mat ters of law argued before them. SITTINGS IN CAMEBA. SeeCHAM« BEKS. SITUS. Lat. Site; position; location the place where a thing is, considered, foi example, with reference to jurisdiction over it.

performs dnty at his benefice, but has a vicar under him endowed and charged with the cure thereof, this is termed a "sinecure." Brown. An ecclesiastical benefice without cure of souls. In popular usage, the term denotes an of fice which yields a revenue to the incumbent, but makes little or no demand upon his time or attention. SINGLE ADULTEBY. In some juris dictions, a distinction is made between "double" and "single" adultery, the former being committed where both the parties are married to other persons, the latter where only one is so mamied. SINGLE BILL. One without any con dition, and which does not depend upon any future event to give it validity. SINGLE BOND. A deed whereby the obligor obliges himself, his heirs, executois, and administrators, to pay a certain sum of money to the obligee at a day named, with out terms of defeasance. SINGLE COMBAT, TBIAL BY. See BATTLE. SINGLE DEMISE. A declaration in ejectment might contain either one demise or several. When it contained only one, it was called a "declaration with a single demise." SINGLE ENTBY. In book-keeping. An entry made to charge or to credit an in dividual or thing, as distinguished from double entry, which is an entry of both the debit and credit accounts of a transaction. SINGLE ESCHEAT. When all a per son's movables fall to the crown, as a casu alty, because of his being declared rebel. Wharton. SINGLE OBIGINAL. An original in strument which is executed singly, and not in duplicate. SINGULAB. Each; as in the expression "all and singular." Also, individual. SINGULAB SUCCESSOB. A term borrowed from the civil law, denoting a per son who succeeds to the rights of a former owner in a single article of property, (as by purchase,) as distinguished from a universal successor, who succeeds to all the rights and powers of a former owner, as in the case of a bankrupt or intestate estate.

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