Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

STANDING SEISED TO USES

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STATE OP FACTS

from time to time. Cox, Inst. 136; May, Parl. Pr. 185. STANDING SEISED TO USES. A covenant to stand seised to uses is one by which the owner of an estate covenants to hold the same to the use of another person, usually a relative, and usually in considera tion of blood or marriage. It is a species of conveyance depending for its effect on the statute of uses. STANNARIES. A district which in cludes all parts of Devon and Cornwall where some tin work is situate and in actual opera tion. The tin miners of the stannaries have certain peculiar customs and privileges. STANNARY COURTS. Courts in Dev onshire and Cornwall for the administration of justice among the miners and tinners. These courts were held before the lord war den and his deputies by virtue of a privilege granted to the workers of the tin-mines there, to sue and be sued in their own courts only, in order that they might not be drawn away from their business by having to attend law suits in distant courts. Brown. STAPLE. In English law. A mart or market. A place where the buying and selling of wool, lead, leather, and other arti cles were put under certain terms. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 393. In international law. The right of sta ple, as exercised by a people upon foreign merchants, is defined to be that they may not allow them to set their merchandises and wares to sale but in a certain place. This practice is not in use in the United States. 1 Chit. Com. Law, 103. STAPLE INN. An inn of chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY. STAR-CHAMBER was a court which originally had jurisdiction in cases where the ordinary course of justice was so much obstructed by one party, through writs, com bination of maintenance, or overawing influ ence that no inferior court would find its process obeyed. The court consisted of the privy council, the common-law judges, and (it seems) all peers of parliament. In the reign of Henry VIII. and his successors, the jurisdiction of the court was illegally ex tended to such a degree (especially in punish ing disobedience to the king's arbitrary proc lamations) that it became odious to the nation, and was abolished. 4 Steph. Comm. 310; Sweet.

STARE DECISIS. Lat. To stand by decided cases; to uphold precedents; to main tain former adjudications. 1 Kent, Comm. 477. STARE IN JUDICIO. Lat. To ap pear before a tribunal, either as plaintiff or defendant. STARR, or STARRA. The old term for contract or obligation among the Jews, be ing a corruption from the Hebrew word "shetar," a covenant. By an ordinance of Richard I., no starr was allowed to be valid, unless deposited in one of certain repositories established by law, the most considerable of which was in the king's exchequer at West minster; and Blackstone conjectures that the room in which these chests were kept was thence called the "starr-chamber." 4 Bl. Comm. 266, 267, note a. Stat pro ratione voluntas. The will stands in place of a reason. 1 Barb. 408, 411; 16 Barb. 514, 525. Stat pro ratione voluntas populi. The will of the people stands in place of a reason. 25 Barb. 276, 344. STATE, v. To express the particulars of a thing in writing or in words; to set down or set forth in detail. To set down in gross; to mention in gen eral terms, or by way of reference; to refer. 6 Hill, 300. STATE, n. A body politic, or society of men, united together for the purpose of pro moting their mutual safety and advantage, by the joint efforts of their combined strength. Cooley, Const. Lim. 1. One ot the component commonwealths or states of the United States of America. The people of a state, in their collective capacity, considered as the party wronged by a criminal deed; the public; as in the title of a cause, "The State vs. A. B." The section of territory occupied by one of the United States. STATE OP FACTS. Formerly, when a master in chancery was directed by the court of chancery to make an inquiry or in vestigation into any matter arising out of a suit, and which could not conveniently be brought before the court itself, each party in the suit carried in before the master a state ment showing how the party bringing it in represented the matter in question to be; and this statement was technically termed a "stateof facts," and formed the ground up

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