Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

SUS. PER COLL.

SURRENDER OF CRIMINALS

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manor, provided there be a custom to war rant it, and there, by delivering up a rod, a glove, or other symbol, as the custom di rects, to resign into the hands of the lord, by the hands and acceptance of bis steward, or of the said two tenants, all his interest and title to the estate, in trust, to be again grant ed out by the lord to such persons and for such uses as are named in the surrender, and as the custom of the manor will warrant. Brown. SURRENDER OF CRIMINALS. The act by which the public authorities deliver a person accused of a crime, and who is found in their jurisdiction, to the authorities with in whose jurisdiction it is alleged the crime has been committed. SURRENDER OF A PREFERENCE. In bankruptcy practice. The surrender to the assignee in bankruptcy, by a preferred creditor, of anything he may have received un der his preference and any advantage it gives him, which he must do before he can share in the dividend. 1 Dill. 544. SURRENDER TO USES OF WILL. Formerly a copyhold interest would not pass by will unless it had been surrendered to the use of the will. By St. 55 Geo. III. c. 192, this is no longer necessary. 1 Steph. Comm. 639; Mozley & Whitley. SURRENDEREE. The person to whom a surrender is made. SURRENDEROR. One who makes a surrender. One who yields up a copyhold es tate for the purpose of conveying it. SURREPTITIOUS. Stealthily or fraud ulently done, taken away, or introduced. SURROGATE. In English, law. One that is substituted or appointed in the room of another, as by a bishop, chancellor, judge, etc.; especially an officer appointed to dis pense licenses to marry without banns. 2 Steph. Comm. 247. In American law. The name given in some of the states to the judge or judicial of ficer who has the administration of probate matters, guardianships, etc. SURROGATE'S COURT. In the Unit ed States. A state tribunal, with similar jurisdiction to the couit of ordinary, court of probate, etc., relating to matters of pro bate, etc. 2 Kent, Comm. 409, note 6. SURSISE. L. Fr. In old English law. Neglect; omission; default; cessation.

SURSUM REDDERE. In old convey ancing. To render up; to surrender. SURSUMREDDITIO. A surrender. SURVEY. The process by which a par cel of land is measured and its contents ascer tained ; also a statement of the result of sucb survey, with the courses and distances and the quantity of the land. In insurance law, the term "the survey" has acquired a general meaning, inclusive of what is commonly called the "application," which contains the questions propounded on behalf of the company, and the answers of the assured. 25 Wis. 291. SURVEY OF A VESSEL. A public document, looked to both by underwriters and owners, as affording the means of ascer taining, at the time and place, the state and condition of the ship and other property at hazard. 3 Sum. 43. SURVEYOR. One who makes surveys of land; one who has the overseeing or care of another person's land or works. SURVEYOR OF HIGHWAYS. In English law. A person elected by the inhab itants of a parish, in vestry assembled, to sur vey the highways therein. He must possess certain qualifications in point of property; and, when elected, he is compellable, unless he can show some grounds of exemption, to take upon himself the office. Mozley & Whitley. SURVEYOR OF THE PORT. A rev enue officer of the United States appointed for each of the principal ports of entry, whose duties chiefly concern the importations at his station and the determination of their amount and valuation. Rev. St. U. S. § 2627. SURVIVOR. One who survives another; one who outlives another; one of two or more persons who lives after the death of the other or others. SURVIVORSHIP. The living of one of two or more persons after the death of the other or otheis. Survivorship is where a person becomes entitled to property by reason of his having survived another person who had an interest in it. The most familiar example is in the case of joint tenants, the rule being that on the death of one ot two joint tenants the whole property passes to the survivor. Sweet. SUS. PER COLL. An abbreviation of " suspendatur per collum" let him be hanged

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