Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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SUBINFEUDATION

STUPRUM

it is the price paid for a license to cut. 67 Me. 478. STUPRUM. Lat. In the civil law. Unlawful intercourse with a woman. Dis tinguished from adultery as being committed with a virgin or widow. Dig. 48, 5, 6,. STURGEON. A royal fish which, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coast, is the property of the sovereign. 2 Steph. Comm. 19n, 540. STYLE. As a verb, to call, name, or en title one; as a noun, the title or appellation of a person. SUA SPONTE. Lat. Of his or its own will or motion; voluntarily; without prompt ing or suggestion. SUABLE. That which may be sued. SUAPTE NATURA. Lat. In its own nature. Suapte nature sterilis, barren in its own nature and quality; intrinsically bar ren. 5 Maule & S. 170. SUB. Lat. Under; upon. SUB-BALLIVUS. In old English law. An under-bailiff; a sheriff's deputy. Fleta, lib, 2, c. 68, § 2. SUB-BOIS. Coppice-wood. 2 Inst. 642. SUB COLORE JURIS. Lat. Under color of right; under a show or appearance of right or rightful power. SUB CONDITIONS. Upon condition. The proper words to express a condition in a conveyance, and to create an estate upon condition. SUB DISJUNCTIONE. In the alter native. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60, § 21. SUB JUDICE. Under or before a judge or court;; under judicial consideration; un determined. 12 East, 409. SUB MODO. Under a qualification; subject to a restriction or condition. SUB NOMINE. Under the name; in the name of; under the title of. SUB PEDE SIGILLI. Under the foot of the seal; under seal. 1 Strange, 521. SUB POTESTATE. Under, or subject to, the power of another; used of a wife, child, slave, or other person not sui juris. SUB SALVO ET SECURO CON DUCTU. Under safe and secure conduct. 1 Strange, 430. Words in the old writ of ha leas corpus*

SUB SILENTIO. Under silence; with out any notice being taken. Passing a thing sub silentio may be evidence of consent. SUB S P E RECONCTLIATIONIS. Under the hope of reconcilement. 2 Kent,. Comm. 127. SUB SUO PERICULO. At his own risk. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 5, § 5. SUBAGENT. An under-agent; a sub stituted agent; an agent appointed by one who is himself an agent. 2 Kent, Comm. 633. SUBALTERN. An inferior or subordi nate officer. An officer who exercises his authority under the superintendence and control of a superior. SUBCONTRACT. A contract subordi nate to another contract, made or intended to be made between the contracting parties, on one part, or some of them, and a stranger. 1 H. Bl. 37, 45. Where a person has contracted for the per formance of certain work, (e. g., to build a house,) and he in turn engages a third party to perform the whole or a part of that which is included in the original contract, (e. g., to do the carpenter work,) his agreement with such third person is called a "subcontract," and such person is called a "subcontractor." SUBDITUS. Lat. In old English law. A vassal; a dependent; any one under the power of another. Spelman. SUBDIVIDE. To divide a part into smaller parts; to separate into smaller divis ions. As, where an estate is to be taken by some of the heirs per stirpes, it is divided and subdivided according to the number of takers in the nearest degree and those in the more remote degree respectively. SUBDUCT. In English probate practice, to subduct a caveat is to withdraw it. SUBHASTARE. Lat In the civil law. To sell at public auction, which was done sub hasta, under a spear; to put or sell under the spear. Calvin. SUBHASTATIO. Lat. In the civil law. A sale by public auction, which was done under a spear, fixed up at the place of sale as a public sign of it. Calvin. SUBINFEUDATION. The system which the feudal tenants introduced of grant ing smaller estates out of those which they held of their lord, to be held of themselves as inferior lords. As this system was pro

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