KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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SCOTS

Scripts obligationes scriptis tollun tnr, et audi consensus obligatio con trario consensu dissolvitur. Written ob ligations are superseded by writings, and. an obligation of naked assent is dissolved by as sent to the contrary. In old records. A place in monasteries, where writing was done. Spelman. SCRIPTUM. Lat. A writing; some thing written. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 60, § 25. —Scriptum indentatum. A writing indent ed ; an indenture or deed.—Scriptum obliga torium. A writing obligatory. The technical name of a bond in old pleadings. Any writing under seal. SCRIVENER. A writer; scribe; con veyancer. One whose occupation is to draw contracts, write deeds and mortgages, and prepare other species of written instruments. Also an agent to whom property is in trusted by others for the purpose of lending it out at an Interest payable to his principal, and for a commission or bonus for himself, whereby he gains his livelihood. —Money scrivener. A money broker. The name was also formerly applied in England to a person (generally an attorney or solicitor) whose business was to find investments for the money of his clients, and see to perfecting the securi ties, and who was often intrusted with the cus tody of the securities and the collection of the interest and principal. See Williams v. Walk er, 2 Sandf. Ch. (N. Y.) 325. SCROLL. A mark intended to supply the place of a seal, made with a pen or other instrument of writing. A paper or parchment containing some writing, and rolled up so as to conceal it SCROOP'S INN. An obsolete law so ciety, also called "Serjeants' Place," oppo site to St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, Lon don. In old practice. A species of roll or record, on which the bail on habeas corpus was entered. SCRUTATOR. Lat. In old English law. A searcher or bailiff of a river; a water bailiff, whose business was to look to the king's rights, as his wrecks, his flotsam, jet sam, water-strays, royal fishes. Hale, de Jure Mar. pars 1, c. 5. SCUSSUS. In old European law. Shak en or beaten out; threshed, as grain. Spel man. SCUTAGE. In feudal law. A tax or contribution raised by those that held lands by knight's service, towards furnishing the king's army, at the rate of one, two or three marks for every knight's fee. A pecuniary composition or commutation SCRIPTORIUM. SCRUET-ROLL.

SCOTS. In English law. Assessments by commissioners of sewers. SCOTTARE. To pay scot, tax, or cus tomary dues. Cowell. SCOUNDREL. An approbious epithet, implying rascality, villainy, or a want of honor or integrity. In slander, this word Is not actionable per se. 2 Bouv. Inst 2250. SCRAMBLING POSSESSION. See POSSESSION. SCRAWL. A word used in some of the United States for scrowl or scroll. "The word 'seal,' written in a scrawl attached to the name of an obligor, makes the instrument a specialty." Gomerford v. Cobb, 2 Fla. 418. SCRIBA. Lat. A scribe; a secretary. Soriba regis, a king's secretary; a chancel lor. Spelman. Scribere est agere. To write is to act. Treasonable words set down in writing amount to overt acts of treason. 2 Rolle, 89; 4 Bl. Comm. 80; Broom, Max: 312, 967. SCRIP. Certificates of ownership, either absolute or conditional, of shares in a public company, corporate profits, etc. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1295. A scrip certificate (or shortly "scrip") is an acknowledgment by the projectors of a company or the issuers of a loan that the person named therein (or more commonly the holder for the time being of the certifi cate) is entitled to a certain specified num ber of shares, debentures, bonds, etc. It Is usually given in exchange for the letter of allotment, and in its turn is given up for the shares, debentures, or bonds which it represents. Lindl. Partn. 127; Sweet. The term has also been applied in the United States to warrants or other like or ders drawn on a municipal treasury (Alma v. Guaranty Sav. Bank, 60 Fed. 207, 8 C. C. A. 564,) to certificates showing the holder to be entitled to a certain portion or allot ment of public or state lands, (Wait v. State Land Office Com'r, 87 Mich. 353, 49 N. W. 600,) and to the fractional paper currency issued by the United States during the pe riod of the Civil War. —Scrip dividend. See DIVIDEND. SCRIPT. Where instruments are exe cuted in part and counterpart, the original or principal is so called. In English probate practice. A will, codicil, draft of will or codicil, or written instructions for the same. If the will is de stroyed, a copy or any paper embodying its contents becomes a script, even though not made under' the direction of the testator. Browne, Prob. Pr. 280.