Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE 1115 SPIRITUAL CORPORATIONS •compelled by a bill in equity filed for the pur pose. 2 Story, Eq. PI. § 712, et seq.

fixed rules, regulations, and proceedings of law, free from vexatious, capricious, and op pressive delays manufactured by the minis ters of justice. 8 Eng. (Ark.) 720; 10 Miss. 497; 3 Mont. 512. SPELLING. The formation of words by letters; orthography. Incorrect spelling does not vitiate a written instrument if the inten tion clearly appears. SPENDTHRIFT. A person who by ex cessive drinking, gaming, idleness, or de bauchery of any kind shall so spend, waste, or lessen his estate as to expose himself or his family to want or suffering, or expose the town to charge or expense tor the support of himself or family. Rev. St. Vt. c. 65, § 9; 57 ST. H. 54. The word "spendthrift," in all the provis ions relating to guardians and wards, con* tained in this or any other statute, is intended to include every person who is liable to be put under guardianship, on account of ex cessive drinking, gaming, idleness, or de bauchery. How. St. Mich. 1882, § 6340. SPERATE. That of which there is hope. Thus a debt which one may hope to recover may be called "sperate," in opposition to "desperate." See 1 Chit. Pr. 520. SPES ACCRESCENDI. Lat. Hope of surviving. 3 Atk. 762; 2 Kent, Comm. 424. Spes est vigilantis somnium. Hope is the dream of the vigilant. 4 Inst. 203. Spes impunitatis continuum affectum tribuit delinquendi. The hope of impu nity holds out a continual temptation to crime. 3 Inst. 236. SPES RECUPERANDL. Lat. The hope of recovery or recapture; the chance of retaking property captured at sea, which prevents the captors from acquiring complete ownership of the property until they have definitely precluded it by effectual measures. 1 Kent, Comm. 101. SPIGURNEL. The sealer of the royal writs. SPINSTER. The addition given, in legal proceedings, and in conveyancing, to a wo man who never has been married. SPIRITUAL CORPORATIONS. Cor porations, the members of which are entirely spiritual persons, and incorporated as such, for the furtherance of religion and perpetu ating the rights of the church.

The doctrine of specific performance is that, where damages would be an inadequate compensation for the breach of an agreement, the contractor will be compelled to perform specifically what he has agreed to do. Sweet. SPBCIFICATIO. Lat. In the civil law. Literally, a making of form; a giving of form to materials. That mode of acquiring property through which a person, by trans forming a thing belonging to another, es pecially by working up his materials into a new species, becomes proprietor of the same. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 271. SPECIFICATION. As used in the law relating to patents and in building contracts, the term denotes a particular or detailed statement of the various elements involved. In military law. The clear and particu lar description of the charges preferred against a person accused of a military offense. Tytler, Mil. Law, 109. SPECIMEN. A sample; a part of some thing intended to exhibit the kind and quali ty of the whole. SPECULATION. In commerce. The act or practice of buying lands, goods, etc., in expectation of a rise of price and of selling them at an advance, as distinguished from a regular trade, in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and whole sale prices, or the difference of price in the place where the goods are purchased, and the place where they are to be carried for market. Webster. SPECULATIVE DAMAGES. Pro spective or anticipated damages from the same acts or facts constituting the present cause of action, but which depend upon future de velopments which are contingent, conjectur al, or improbable. SPECULUM. Lat. Mirror or looking glass. The title of several of the most an cient law-books or compilations. One of the ancient Icelandic books is styled "Speculum Regale." SPEEDY EXECUTION. An execution which, by the direction of the judge at nisi priiis, issues forthwith, or on some early 4ay fixed upon by the judge for that purpose «fter the trial of the action. Brown. SPEEDY TRIAL. In criminal law. As secured by constitutional guaranties, a speedy trial means a trial conducted according to

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