Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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SOLO CEDIT, ETC.

SOLEMN FOKM

used in such phrases as "solicitation to lar ceny," to bribery, etc. SOLICITOR. In English law. A legal practitioner in the court of chancery. The words "solicitor" and "attorney" are com monly used indiscriminately, although they are not precisely the same, an attorney being a practitioner in the courts of common law, a solicitor a practitioner in the courts of eq uity. Most attorneys take out a certificate to practice in the courts of chancery, and therefore become solicitors also, and, on the other hand, most, if not all, solicitors take out a certificate to practice in the couits of common law, and therefore become attorneys also. Brown. SOLICITOR GENERAL. In English law. One of the principal law officers of the crown, associated in his duties with the at torney general, holding office by patent dur ing the pleasure of the sovereign, and having a right ot preaudience in the courts. 3 Bl. Comrn. 27. SOLICITOR OF THE SUPREME COURT. The solicitors before the supreme courts, in Scotland, are a body of solicitors entitled to practice in the court of session, etc. Their chaiter of incorporation bears date August 10, 1797. SOLICITOR OF THE TREASURY. An officer of the United States attached to the department of justice, having general charge of the law business appertaining to the treasury. SOLICITOR TO THE SUITORS' FUND. An officer of the English court of chancery, who is appointed in certain cases guardian ad litem. SOLIDUM. Lat. In the civil law. A whole; an entire or undivided thing. SOLIDUS LEGALIS. A coin equal to 13s. 4d. of the present standard. 4 Steph. Comin. 119». SOLINUM. In old English law. Two plow-lands, and somewhat less than a half. Co. Litt. 5a. Solo cedit quod solo insediflcatur. That which is built upon the soil belongs to the soil. The proprietor of the soil becomes also proprietor of the building erected upon it. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 275. Solo cedit quod solo implantatur. That which is planted in the soil belongs to the soil. The proprietor of the soil becomes also

SOLEMN FORM. There are two kinds of probate, namely, probate in common form, and probate in solemn form. Probate in common form is granted in the registry, with out any formal procedure in court, upon an ex parte application made by the executor. Probate in solemn form is in the nature of a final decree pronounced in open court, all parties interested having been duly cited. The difference between the effect of pro bale in common form and probate in solemn form is that probate in common form is rev ocable, whereas probate in solemn form is irrevocable, as against all persons who have been cited to see the proceedings, or who can be proved to have been privy to those pio ceedings, except in the case where a will ot subsequent date is discovered, in which case piobate of an earlier will, though granted in solemn form, would be revoked. Coote, Prob. Pr. (5th Ed.) 237-239; Mozley & Wbit ley. SOLEMN WAR. A war made in form by public declaration; a war solemnly de clared by one state against another. SOLEMNES LEGUM FORMULAE. In the civil law. Solemn forms of laws; forms of forensic proceedings and of trans acting legal acts. One of the sources of the unwritten law of Rome. Butl. Hor. Jur. 47. SOLEMNITAS ATTACHIAMENTO RUM. In old English practice. Solemnity or formality ot attachments. The issuing of attachments in a certain formal and regular order. IJiact. fols. 439, 440; 1 lieeve, Eng. Law, 480. Solemnitates juris sunt observandse. The solemnities of law are to be observed. Jenk. Cent. 13. SOLEMNITY. A rite or ceremony; the formality established by law to render a con tract, agreement, or other act valid. SOLEMNIZE. To solemnize, spoken of a marriage, means no more than to enter in to u matriage contract, with due publication, before third peisons, for the purpose of giving it notoriety and certainty; which may be be fore any persons, relatives, friends, or stran gers, competent to testify to the facts. 11 N. J. Law, 12, 19. SOLICITATION. Asking; enticing; urgent request. Thus "solicitation of chas tity" is the asking or urging a woman to surrender her chastity. The word is also *M DICT.LAW—70

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