KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

SCANDALOUS MATTER

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SCHOOL

ing the management or distribution of prop erty, or for making an arrangement between persons having conflicting rights. Thus, in the practice of the chancery division, where the execution of a charitable trust in the manner directed by the founder is difficult or impracticable, or requires supervision, a scheme for the management of the charity will be settled by the court Tud. Char Trusts, 257; Hunt Eq. 248; Daniell, Ch. Pr 1765. SCHETES. Usury. Cowell. SCHIREMAN. In Saxon law. An of ficer having the civil government of a shire, or county; an earl. 1 Bl. Comm. 398. SCHIRREXS-GEIiD. In Saxon law. A tax paid to sheriffs for keeping the shire or county court. Cowell. SCHISM. In ecclesiastical law. A divi sion or separation in a church or denomina tion of Christians, occasioned by a diversity of faith, creed, or religious opinions. Nelson v. Benson, 69 111. 29; McKinney v. Griggs, 5 Bush (Ky.) 407, 96 Am. Dec. 360. — Schism-bill. In English law. The name of an act passed in the reign of Queen Anne, which restrained Protestant dissenters from educating their own children, and forbade all tutors and schoolmasters to be present at any conventicle or dissenting place of worship. The queen died on the day when this act was to have taken ef fect, (August 1. 1714,) and it was repealed in the fifth year of Geo. I. Wharton. SCHOOIi. An institution of learning of a lower grade, below a college or a universi ty. A place of primary instruction. The term generally refers to the common or pub lic schools, maintained at the expense of the public. See American Asylum v. Phoenix Bank, 4 Conn. 177, 10 Am. Dec. 112; In re Sanders, 53 Kan. 191, 36 Pac. 348, 23 L. R. A. 603; Com. v. Banks, 198 Pa. 397, 48 AfL 277. —Common schools. Schools maintained at the public expense and administered by a bureau of the state, district, or municipal government for the gratuitous education of the children of all citizens without distinction. Jenkins v. An dover, 103 Mass. 98; People v. Board of Edu cation, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 410; Le Coulteulx v. Buffalo, 33 N. Y. 337; Roach v. Board of Di rectors, 7 Mo. App. 567.— District school. A common or public school for the education at public expense of the children residing within a given district; a public school maintained by a "school district." See infra. — High school. A school in which higher branches of learning are taught than in the common schools. 123 Mass. 306. A school in which such instruction is given as will prepare the students to enter a college or university. Attorney General v. But ler, 123 Mass. 306; State v. School Dist, 31 Neb. 552, 48 N. W. 393; Whitlock v. State, 30 Neb. 815, 47 N. W. 284.— Normal school. A training school for teachers; one in which in struction is given in the theory and practice of teaching; particularly, in the system of schools generally established throughout the United States, a school for the training and instruc tion of those who are already teachers in the public schools or those who desire and expect

58, 29 C. C. A. 14; Burden v. Burden (C. C.) 124 Fed. 255. SCANDALOUS MATTER. In equity pleading. See SCANDAL. SCANDALUM MAGNATUM. In Eng lish law. Scandal or slander of great men or nobles. Words spoken in derogation of a peer, a judge, or other great officer of the realm, for which an action lies, though it is now rarely resorted to. 3 Bl. Comm. 123; 3 Steph. Comm. 473. This offense has not existed in America since the formation of the United States. State v. Shepherd, 177 Mo. 205, 76 S. W. 79, 99 Am. St Rep. 624. SCAPEEXARE. In old European law. To chop; to chip or haggle. Spelman. SCAPHA. Lat In Roman law. A boat; a lighter. A ship's boat SCAVAGE, SCHEVAGE, SCHEWAGE, or SHEWAGE. A kind of toll or custom, exacted by mayors, sheriffs, etc., of mer chant strangers, for wares showed or offered for sale within their liberties. Prohibited by 19 Hen. VII. c. 7. CowelL SCAVAIDUS. The officer who collected the scavage money. Cowell. SCEATTA. A Saxon coin of less denom ination than a shilling. Spelman. SCEPPA SALIS. An ancient measure of salt the quantity of which is now not .known. Wharton. SCHAR-PENNY, SCHARN-PENNY, or SCHORN-PENNY. A small duty or com pensation. Cowell. SCHEDULE. A sheet of paper or parch ment annexed to a statute, deed, answer in equity, deposition, or other instrument ex hibiting in detail the matters mentioned or referred to in the principal document A list or inventory; the paper containing fan inventory. In practice. When an indictment is re turned from an inferior court in obedience to a writ of certiorari, the statement of the previous proceedings sent with it is termed the "schedule." 1 Saund. 309a, n. 2. In constitutional law. A schedule is a statement annexed to a constitution newly adopted by a state, in which are described at length the particulars in which it differs from the former constitution, or which con tains provisions for the adjustment of mat ters affected by the change from the old to the new constitution. SCHEME. In English law, a scheme is a document containing provisions for regulat