Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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SPECIAL BAILIFF

SPADAEIUS

SPECIAL. Relating to or designating a species, kind, or sort; designed for a particu lar purpose; confined to a particular purpose, object, person, or class. The opposite of "general." SPECIAL ACCEPTANCE. The quali fied acceptance of a bill of exchange, as where it is accepted as payable at a particu lar place "and not elsewhere." SPECIAL ACT. A private statute; an act which operates only upon particular per sons or private concerns. 1 Bl. Comm. 86; 103 U. S. 454. SPECIAL ADMINISTRATION. Au thority to administer upon some few particu lar effects of a decedent, as opposed to au thority to administer his whole estate. SPECIAL AGENT. One authorized to transact only a particular business for his principal, as distinguished from a general agent. SPECIAL ALLOCATUR. The special allowance of a writ (particularly a writ of error) which is required in some particular cases. SPECIAL ALLOWANCES. In En glish practice. In taxing the costs of an ac tion as between party and party, the taxing officer is, in certain cases, empowered to make special allowances; i.

SPADARIUS. A sword-bearer. Blount. SPADONES. In the civil law. Impo tent persons. Those who, on account of their temperament or some accident they have suffered, are unable to procreate. Inst. 1. 11, 9; Dig. 1, 7, 2. 1. SPARSIM. Lat. Here and there; scat tered; at intervals. For instance, trespass to realty by cutting timber sparsim (here and there) through a tract. SPATiE PLACITTJM. A court for the speedy execution of justice upon military de linquents. Cowell. SPEAK. In practice. To argue. "The case was ordeied to be spoke to again." 10 Mod. 107. See IMPARLANCE; SPEAKING WITH PROSECUTOR. SPEAKER. This is the official designa tion of the president or chairman of certain legislative bodies, particularly of the house of representatives in the congress of the United States, of one or both branches of several of the state legislatuies, and of the two houses of the British parliament. The term "speaker," as used in reference to either of the houses of parliament, signi fies the functionary acting as chairman. In the commons his duties are to put questions, to preserve order, and to see that the privi leges of the house are not infringed; and, in the event of the numbers being even on a division, he has the privilege of giving the casting vote. The speaker of the lords is the lord chancellor or the lord keepei of the great seal of England, or, if he be absent, the lords may choose their own speaker. The duties of the speaker of the lords are principally confined to putting questions, and the lord chancellor has no more to do with preserving order than any other peer. Brown. SPEAKING DEMURRER. In plead ing. One which alleges new matter in addi tion to that contained in the bill as a cause for demurrer. 4 Brown, Ch. 254; 2 Ves. Jr. 83. SPEAKING WITH PROSECUTOR. A method of compounding an offense, al lowed in the English practice, where the court permits a defendant convicted of a mis demeanor to speak with the prosecutor be fore judgment is pronounced; if the prose cutor declares himself satisfied, the court may inflict a trivial punishment. 4Steph. Coinm. 261.

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