Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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STANDING ORDERS

STABULARIUS

STAMP DUTIES. In English law. Du ties imposed upon and raised from stamps upon parchment and paper, and forming a branch of the perpetual revenue of the king dom. 1 Bl. Comm. 323. STANCE. In Scotch law. A resting place; a field or place adjoining a drove-road, for resting and refreshing sheep and cattle on their journey. 7 Bell, App. Cas. 53, 57, 58. STAND. To abide; to submit to; as "to stand a trial." To remain as a thing is; to remain in force. Pleadings demurred to and held good are al lowed to stand. To appear in court. STANDARD. An ensign or flag used in war. STANDARD OF WEIGHT, or MEAS URE. A weight or measure fixed and pre scribed by law, to which all other weights and measures are required to correspond. STANDING ASIDE JURORS. A practice by which, on the drawing of a jury for a criminal trial, the prosecuting officer puts aside a juror, provisionally, until the panel is exhausted, without disclosing his reasons, instead of being required to chal lenge him and show cause. The statute 33 Edw. I. deprived the crown of the power to challenge jurors without showing cause, and the practice of standing aside jurors was adopted, in England, as a method of evading its provisions. STANDING BY is used in law as im plying knowledge, under such circumstances as rendered it the duty of the possessor to communicate it; and it is such knowledge, and not the mere fact of " standing by," that lays the foundation of responsibility. 8 Blackf. 45. The phrase does not import an actual pres ence, "but implies knowledge under such circumstances as to render it the duty of the possessor to communicate it." 6 Ind. 289. STANDING MUTE. A prisoner, ar raigned tor treason or felony, was said to "stand mute," when he refused to plead, or answered foreign to the purpose, or, after a plea of not guilty, would not put himself upon the country. STANDING ORDERS are rules and forms regulating the procedure of the two houses of parliament, each having its own. They are of equal force in every parliament, except so far as they are altered or suspended

STABTJLARIUS. Lat. In the civil law. A stable-keeper. Dig. 4, 9, 4, 1. STACHIA. In old records. A dam or head made to stop a water-course. Cowell. STAFF-HERDING. The following of cattle within a forest. STAGE-RIGHT is a word which it has been attempted to introduce as a substitute for "the right of representation and perform ance, " but it can hardly be said to be an ac cepted term of English or American law. Sweet. STAGIARIUS. A resident. Cowell. STAGNUM. In old English law. A pool, or pond. Co. Litt. 5a. STAKE. A deposit made to answer an event, as on a wager. STAKEHOLDER primarily means a per son with whom money is deposited pending the decision of a bet or wager, (q. ©.,) but it is more often used to mean a person who holds money or property which is claimed by rival claimants, but in which he himself claims no interest. Sweet. STALE. In Saxon law. Larceny. Whar ton. STALE DEMAND. A demand or claim which has not been pressed or asserted for a long time, so long, in fact, that a court of equity will refuse to enforce it. STALLAGE. The liberty or right of pitching or erecting stalls in fairs or mar kets, or the money paid for the same. 1 Steph. Comm. 664. STALLARIUS. In Saxon law. The prasfectus stdbuli, now master of the horse. Sometimes one who has a stall in a fair or market. STAMP. An impression made by public authority, in pursuance of law, upon paper or parchment, upon which ceitain legal pro ceedings, conveyances, or contracts are re quired to be written, and for which a tax or duty is exacted. A small label or strip of paper, bearing a particular device, printed and sold by the government, and required to be attached to mail-matter, and to some other articles sub ject to duty or excise. STAMP ACTS. In English law. Acts regulating the stamps upon deeds, contracts, agreements, papers in law proceedings, bills and notes, letters, receipts, and other papers.

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