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agreement of the person in whom the right of possession resides. 2 Bl. Comm. 150. SUFFERANCE WHARVES. In En glish law. These are wharves in which goods may be landed before any duty is paid They are appointed for the purpose by the commissioners of the customs. 2 Steph. Comm. 500, note. SUFFERENTIA PACIS. A grant or sufferance of peace or truce. SUFFERING A RECOVERY. A re covery was effected by the party wishing to convey the land suffering a fictitious action to be brought against him by the party to whom the land was to be conveyed, (the de mandant,) and allowing the demandant to re cover a judgment against him for the land in question. The vendor, or conveying party, in thus assisting or permitting the demand ant so to recover a judgment against him, was thence technically said to "suffer a re covery. " Brown. SUFFRAGAN. Bishops who in former times were appointed to supply the place of others during (heir absence on embassies or other business were so termed. They were consecrated as other bishops were, and were anciently called " chorepiscopi," or "bishops of the county," in contradistinction to the regular bishops of the city or see. The prac tice of creating suffragan bishops, after hav ing long been discontinued, was recently re vived; and such bishops are now permanent ly "assistant" to the bishops. Brown. A suffragan is a titular bishop ordained to aid and assist the bishop of the diocese in his spiritual function; or one who supplieth the place instead of the bishop, by whose suffrage ecclesiastical causes or matters committed to him are to be ad judged, acted on, or determined Some writers call these suffragans by the name of "subsidiary bish ops. " Tomlins. SUFFRAGE. A vote; the act of voting; the right or privilege of casting a vote at public elections. The last is the meaning of the term in such phrases as "the extension of the suffrage," "nniveisal suffrage," etc SUFFRAGIUM. Lat. In Roman law. A vote; the right of voting in the assemblies of the people. Aid or influence used or promised to ob tain some honor or office; the purchase of office. Cod. 4, 3. SUGGESTIO FALSI. Lat. Sugges tion or representation of that which is false; false representation. To recite in a deed that a will was duly executed, when it was

SUCCESSOB,. One who succeeds to the rights or the place of another; partici 'nrly, the person or persons who constitute a cor poration after the death or removal of those who preceded them as corporators. One who has been appointed or elected to hold an office after the term of the present incumbent. Suceurritur minori; facilis est lapsus juventutis. A minor is [to be] aided; a mis take of youth is easy, [youth is liable to err.] Jenk. Cent. p. 47, case 89. SUCKEN, SUCHEN. In Scotch law. The whole lands astricted to a mill; that is, the lands of which the tenants are obliged to send their grain to that mill. Bell. SUDDER. In Hindu law. The best; the fore-court of a house; the chief seat of government, contradistinguished from "rao fussil," or interior of the country; the pres idency. Wharton. SUE. To prosecute by law; to commence legal proceedings against a party. It is ap plied almost exclusively to the institution and prosecution of a civil action. SUE OUT. To obtain by application; to petition for and take out. Properly the term is applied only to the obtaining and is suing of such process as is only accoided up on an application fiist made; but convention ally it is also used of the taking out of pro cess which issues of course. The term is oc casionally used of instruments other than writs. Thus, we speak of "suing out" a pardon. SUEBTE. In Spanish law. A small lot of ground. 5 Tex. 83. SUFFEB. To suffer an act to be done, by a person who can prevent it, is to permit or consent to it; to approve of it, and not to hinder it It implies a willingness of the mind, la Conn. 505; 17 Blatchf. 330. SUFFERANCE. Toleration; negative permission by not forbidding; passive con sent; license implied from the omission or neglect to enforce an adverse right. SUFFERANCE, TENANCY AT. This is the least and lowest estate which can sub sist in realty. It is in strictness not an es tate, but a mere possession only. It arises when a person, after his right to the occupa tion, under a lawful title, is at an end, con tinues (having no title at all) in possession of the land, without the agreement or dis

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