Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

SUPPLEMENTAL BILL

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SUPPRESSIO VERI, ETC.

of correcting, adding to, and explaining an answer already filed. Smith, Ch. Pr. 334. SUPPLEMENTAL BILL. In equity pleading. A bill filed in addition to an orig inal bill, in order to supply some defect in its original frame or structure. It is the appio priate remedy where the matter sought to be supplied cannot be introduced by amendment. Story, Eq. PI. §§ 332-338. SUPPLEMENTAL BILL, BILL IN THE NATURE OP A. See BILL IN THE NATURE, etc. SUPPLEMENTAL CLAIM. A further claim which was filed when further relief was sought after the bringing of a claim. Smith, Ch. Pr. 655. SUPPLEMENTAL COMPLAINT. Under the codes of practice obtaining in some of the states, this name is given to a com plaint filed in an action, for the purpose of supplying some defect or omission in the original complaint, or of adding something to it which could not proper 1 ? oe introduced by amendment. SUPPLETORY OATH. In the modern practice of the civil law, they do not allow a less number than two witnesses to be "plena probatio," (full proof,) calling the testimony of one "semi-plena probatio" only, (half proof,) on which no sentence can be founded. In order to supply the other half of proof, they admit the party himself (plaintiff or de fendant) to be examined in his own behalf, and the oath administered to him for that purpose is called the "suppletory oath," be cause it supplies the necessary quantum of proof on which to found the sentence. 3 Bl. Comm. 370. This term, although without application in American law, in its original sense, is sometimes used as a designation of a party's oath required to be taken in authentication or support of some piece of documentary evi dence which he offers; e. g., his books of ac count. SUPPLIANT. The actor in, or party preferring, a petition of right. SUPPLICATIO. Lat. In the civil law. A petition for pardon of a first offense; also a petition for reversal of judgment; also equiv alent to " duplication which corresponds to the common law rejoinder. Calvin. SUPPLICAVIT. In English law. The name of a writ issuing out of the king's bench or chancery for taking sureties of the peace.

It is commonly directed to the justices of the peace, when they are averse to acting in the affair in their judicial capacity. 4 Bl. Comm. 253. SUPPLICIUM. Lat. In the civil law. Punishment; corporal punishment for crime. Death was called "ultimum supplicium," the last or extreme penalty. SUPPLIES. In English law. The "sup plies" in parliamentary proceedings signify the sums of money which are annually voted by the house of commons for the maintenance of the crown and the various public services. Jacob; Brown. SUPPLY, COMMISSIONERS OF. Persons appointed to levy the land-tax in Scotland, and to cause a valuation roll to be annually made up, and to perform other du ties in their respective counties. Bell. SUPPLY, COMMITTEE OP. In En glish law. All bills which relate to the pub lic income or expenditure must originate with the house of commons, and all bills au thorizing expenditure of the public money are based upon resolutions moved in a com mittee of supply, which is always a commit tee of the whole house. Wharton. SUPPORT, o. To support a rule or or der is to argue in answer to the arguments of the party who has shown cause against a rule or order nisi. SUPPORT, n. The right of support is an easement consisting in the privilege of resting the joists or beams of one's house up on, or inserting their ends into, the wall of an adjoining house belonging to another own er. It may arise either from contract or pre scription. 3 Kent, Comm. 436. Support also signifies the right to have one's ground supported so that it will not cave in, when an adjoining owner makes an excavation. SUPPRESSIO VERI. Lat. Suppres sion or concealment of the truth. "It is a rule of equity, as well as of law, that a sup presbio veri is equivalent to a suggestiofalsi; and where either the suppression of the truth or the suggestion of what is false can be proved, in a fact material to the contract, the party injured may have relief against the contract." 18 Johns. 405. Suppressio veri, expressio falsi. Sup pression of the truth is [equivalent to] the expression of what is false. 11 Wend. 374, 417.

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