Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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spurious bank-bill may be a legitimate im pression from the genuine plate, but it must have the signatures of persons not the officers of the bank whence it purports to have issued, or else the names of fictitious persons. A spurious bill, also, may be an illegitimate impression from a genuine plate, or an im pression from a counterfeit plate, but it must have such signatures or names as we have just indicated. A bill, therefore, may be both counteifeit and forged, or both counter feit and spurious, but it cannot be both forged and spurious." 1 Ohio St. 187. SPURIUS. Lat. In the civil law. A bastard; the offspring of promiscuous co habitation. SPY. A person sent into an enemy's camp to inspect their works, ascertain their strength and their intentions, watch their movements, and secietly communicate intel ligence to the proper officer. By the laws of war among all civilized nations, a spy is pun ished with death. Webster. See A r attel, 3, 179. SQUATTER. In American law. One who settles on another's land, paiticularly on public lands, without a title. SQUIRE. A contraction of "esquire." SS. An abbreviation used in that part of a record, pleading, or affidavit, called the "statement of the venue." Commonly trans lated or read, "to-wit," and supposed to be a contraction of "scilicet.'* STAB. A wound inflicted by a thrust with a pointed weapon. STABILIA. A writ called by that name, founded on a custom in Normandy, that where a man in power claimed lands m the possession of an, inferior, he petitioned the prince that it might be put into his hands till the right was decided, whereupon he had this writ. Wharton. Stabit prsesumptio donee probetur in contrarium. A presumption will stand good till the contrary is proved. Hob. 297; Broom, Max. 949. STABLE-STAND. In forest law. One of the four evidences or presumptions where by a man was convicted of an intent to steal the king's deer in the forest. This was when a man was found at his standing in the forest with a cross-bow or long-bow bent, ready to shoot at any deer, or else standing close by a tree with grey-hounds in a leash, ready to slip. Cowell; Manwood.

public officers (as generals or admirals in time of war) in behalf of their governments, either without authority or in excess of the authority under which they purport to be made, and which therefore require an express or tacit ratification. SPONSOR. A surety; one who makes a promise or gives security for another, partic ularly a godfather in baptism. In the civil law. One who intervenes for another voluntarily and without being re quested. SPONTE OBLATA. A free gift or pres ent to the crown. Sponte virum mulier fugiens et adul tera facta, dote sua careat, nisi sponsi sponte retracta. Go. Litt. 326. Let a woman leaving her husband of her own ac cord, and committing adultery, lose her dow er, unless taken back by her husband of his own accord. SPOBTULA. Lat. In Roman law. A largess, dole, or present; a pecuniary dona tion; an official perquisite; something over and above the ordinary fee allowed by law. Inst. 4, 6, 24. SPOUSALS. In old English law. Mut ual promises to mairy. SPOUSE-BREACH. In old English law. Adultery. Cowell. SPRING. A fountain of water; an issue of water fi om the earth, or the basin of water at the place of its issue. "Webster. A nat ural chasm in which water has collected, and from which it either is lost by percolation or rises in a defined channel. 41 Law T. (N. S.)457. SPRING-BRANCH. In American land law. A branch of a stieam, flowing from a spring. 12 Grat. 196. SPRINGING USE. A use limited to arise on a future event where no preceding use is limited, and which does not take effect in derogation of any other interest than that which results to the grantor, or remains in him in the mean time. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 281. SPUILZIE. In Scotch law. The tak ing away or meddling with movables in another's possession, without the consent of the owner or authority of law. Bell. SPUBIOUS. Not proceeding from the true source; not genuine; counterfeited. "A

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