Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

STEALING CHILDREN

STATUTORY RELEASE

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statute does not take from another special statute. STATUTUM WALLI.S1. The statute of Wales. The title of a statute passed in the twelfth year of Edw. I., being a sort of con stitution for the principality of Wales, which was thereby, in a great measure, put on the footing of England with respect to its laws and the administration of justice. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law. 93, 94. STAURUM. In old records. A store, or stock of cattle. A term of common occur rence in the accounts of monastic establish ments. Spelman; Cowell. STAY. In practice. A stopping; the act of arresting a judicial proceeding, by the or der of a court. STAY LAWS. Acts of the legislature pre scribing a stay of execution in certain cases, or a stay of foreclosure of mortgages, or clos ing the courts for a limited period, or provid ing that suits shall not be instituted until a certain time after the cause of action arose, or otherwise suspending legal remedies; de signed for the relief of debtors, in times of general distress or financial trouble. STAY OF EXECUTION. The stop ping or arresting of execution on a judg ment, that is, of the judgment-creditor's right lo issue execution, for a limited period. This is given by statute in many jurisdic tions, as a privilege to the debtor, usually on his furnishing bail for the debt, costs, and interest. Or it may take place by agreement of the parties. STAY OF PROCEEDINGS. The tem porary suspension of the regular order of pro ceedings in a cause, by direction or order of the court, usually to await the action of one of the parties in regard to some omitted step or some act which the court has re quired him to perform as incidental to the suit; as where a non-resident plaintiff has been ruled to give security for costs. STEAL. This term is commonly used in indictments for laiceny, ("take, steal, and carry away,") and denotes the commission of theft. But, in popular usage, "stealing" seems to be a wider term than "larceny," in asmuch as it may include the unlawful ap propriation of things which are not technic ally the subject of larceny, e. g. t immova bles. STEALING CHILDREN. SeeKID NAPPING.

STATUTORY RELEASE. A convey ance which superseded the old compound assurance by lease and release. It was created by St. 4 & 5 Viet. c. 21, which abolished the lease for a year. STATUTUM. Lat. In the civil law. Es tablished; determined. A term applied to judicial action. Dig. 50, 16, 46, pr. In old English law. A statute; an act of parliament. Statutum affirmativum non derogat communi legi. Jenk Cent. 24. An affirma tive statute does not derogate from the com mon law. STATUTUM DE MERCATORIBUS. The statute of Acton Burnell, (g. v.) Statutum ex gratia regis dicitur, quan do rex dignatur cedere dejure suo regio, pro commodo et quiete populi sui. 2 Inst. 378. A statute is said to be by the grace of the king, when the king deigns to yield some portion of his royal rights for the good and quiet of his people. Statutum generaliter est intelligendum quando verba statuti sunt specialia, ratio autem generalis. When the words of a statute are special, but the reason of it gen eral, the statute is to be understood general ly. 10 Coke, 101. STATUTUM HIBERNLE DU CO EL2EREDIBUS. The statute 14 Hen. III. The third public act in the statute-book. It has been pronounced not to be a statute. In the form of it, it appears to be an instruction given by the king to his justices in Iieland, directing them how to proceed in a certain point where they entertained a doubt. It seems the justices itinerant in that country had a doubt, when land descended to sisters, whether the younger sisters ought to hold of the eldest, and do homage to her for their several portions, or of the chief lord, and do homage to him; and ceitain knights had been sent over to know what the practice was in England in such a case. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 259. STATUTUM SESSIONUM. In old English law. The statute session; a meeting in every hundred of constables and house holders, by custom, for the ordering of serv ants, and debating of differences between masters and servants, rating of wages, etc. 5 Eliz. c. 4. Statutum speciale statuto speciali non derogat. Jenk. Cent. 199. One special

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