Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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SMOKE-FARTHINGS. In old English law. An annual rent paid to cathedral churches; another name for the pentecostals or customary oblations offered by the dis persed inhabitants within a diocese, when they made their processions to the mother ca thedral church. Cowell. SMOKE-SILVER. In English law. A sum paid to the ministers of divers parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. Blount. SMUGGLE. The act, with intent to de fraud, of bringing into the United States, or* with like intent, attempting to bring into the United States, dutiable articles, without pass ing the same, or the package containing the same, through the custom-house, or submit ting them to the officers of the revenue for examination. 18 U. S. St. at Large, 186. "The word is a technical word, having a known and accepted meaning. It implies something illegal, and is inconsistent with an innocent intent. The idea conveyed by it is that of a secret introduction of goods, with intent to avoid payment of duties." 13 Blatchf. 184. SMUGGLING. The offense of import ing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed indifferently either upon the excise or cus toms revenue. Wharton. SNOTTERING SILVER. A small duty which was paid by servile tenants in Wylegh to the abbot of Colchester. Cowell. SO. This term is sometimes the equiva lent of "hence," or "therefore," and it is thus understood whenever what follows is an illustration of, or conclusion from, what has gone before. 33 Ind. 431. SO HELP YOU GOD. The formula at the end of a common oath. SOB RE. Span. Above; over; upon. 15 Tex. 586, 592. SOBRE-JUEZES. In Spanish law. Su perior judges. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 4, 1. 1. SOBRINI and SOBRIN.E. Lat. I» the civil law. The children of cousins ger man in general. SOC, SOK, or SOKA. In Saxon law. Jurisdiction; a power or privilege to admin* ister justice and execute the laws; also a shire, circuit, or territory. Coweli.

SLIGHT CARE. See CARE; DILIGENCE; NEGLIGENCE. SLIGHT NEGLIGENCE. Slight neg ligence is not slight want of ordinary care contributing to the injury, which would de feat an action for negligence. Slight negli gence is defined to be only an absence of that degree of care and vigilance which persons of extraordinary prudence and foresight are ac customed to use. 43 Wis. 512. See CARE; DILIGENCE; NEGLIGENCE. SLIP. 1. In negotiations for a policy of insurance, in England, the agreement is in practice concluded between the parties by a memorandum called the "slip," containing the terms of the proposed insurance, and in itialed by the underwriter. Sweet. 2. Also that part of a police court which is divided off from the other parts of the court, for the prisoner to stand in. It is frequently called the "dock." Brown. SLIFPA. A stirrup. There is a tenure of land in Cambridgeshire by holding the sovereign's stirrup. Wharton. SLOUGH. An arm of a river, flowing between islands and the main-land, and sep arating the islands from one another. Sloughs have not the breadth of the main river, nor does the main body of water of the stream flow through them. 55 Iowa, 565, 8 N. W. Rep. 443. SLOUGH SILVER. A rent paid to the castle of Wigmore, in lieu of certain days' work in harvest, heretofore reserved to the lord from his tenants. Cowell. SLUICEWAY. An artificial channel in to which water is let by a sluice. Specifically, a trench constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs or lumber can be floated down to a convenient place of delivery. Webster. See 29 Minn. 416, 13 N. W. Rep. 192. SMAKA. In old records. A small, light vessel; a smack. Cowell. SMALL DEBTS COURTS. The sev eral county courts established by St. 9 & 10 Viet. c. 95, for the purpose of bringing jus tice home to every man's door. SMALL TITHES. All personal and mixed tithes, and also hops, flax, saffrons, potatoes, and sometimes, by custom, wood. Otherwise called "privy tithes." 2 Steph. Comm. 726. SMART-MONEY. Vindictive or exem plary damages.

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