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SCUTAGB

SEAL

made by a tenant by knight-service In lieu of actual service. 2 Bl. Comm. 74. A pecuniary aid or tribute originally re served by particular lords, instead or In lieu of personal service, varying in amount according to the expenditure which the lord had to incur in his personal attendance upon the king In his wars. Wright, Ten. 121 134. SCUTAGIO HABENDO. A writ that anciently lay against tenants by knight's service to serve in the wars, or send suffi cient persons, or pay a certain sum. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 83.

contradistinction to that which is surrounded or inclosed between narrow headlands or promon tories. People v. Richmond County, 73 N. Y. 396; U. S. v. Grush, 26 Fed. Cas. 48; U. S. v. Rodgers, 150 U. S. 249, 14 Sup. Ct 109, 37 L. Ed. 1071; Baker v. Hoag, 7 N. Y. 561, 59 Am. Dec. 431; 2 East, P. C. c. 17, § 10.— Sea batteries. Assaults by masters in the mer chant service upon seamen at sea.— Sea-bed. All that portion of land under the sea that lies beyond the sea-shore.— Sea-brief. See SEA LETTER.— Sea-greens. In the Scotch law. Grounds overflowed by, the sea in spring tides. Bell.— Sea-laws. Laws relating to the sea, as the laws of Oleron, etc.— Sea-letter. A species of manifest, containing a description of the ship's cargo, with the port from which it comes and the port of destination. This is one of the documents necessary to be carried by all neutral vessels, in the merchant service, in time of war, as an evidence of their nationality. 4 Kent, Comm. 157. See Sleght v. Hartshorne, 2 Johns. (N. Y.) 540.— Sea-reeve. An officer in maritime towns and places who took care of the maritime rights of the lord of the manor, and watched the shore, and collected wrecks for the lord. Tomlins.— Sea rovers. Pirates and robbers at sea.— Sea-shore. The margin of the sea in its usual and ordinary state. When the tide is out, low-water mark is the margin of the sea; and, when the sea is full, the margin is" high-water mark. The sea-shore is therefore all the ground between the ordinary high water mark and low-water mark. It cannot be considered as including any ground always covered by the sea, for then it would have no definite limit on the sea-board. Neither can it include any part of the upland, for the same reason. Storer v. Freeman, 6 Mass. 439, 4 Am. Dec. 155; Church v. Meeker, 34 Conn. 424. That space of land over which the waters of the sea are spread in the highest water dur ing the winter season. Civ. Code La. art. 442. —Seaworthy, Seaworthiness. See those titles. An impression upon wax, wafer, or some other tenacious substance capable of being impressed. Allen v. Sullivan R. Co., 32 N. H. 449; Solon v. Williamsburgh Sav. Bank, 114 N. Y. 132, 21 N. E. 168; Alt v. Stoker, 127 Mo. 471, 30 S. W. 132; Brad ford v. Randall, 5 Pick. (Mass.) 497; Osborn v. Kistler, 35 Ohio St. 102; Hopewell Tp. v. Amwell Tp., 6 N. J. Law, 175; Jones v. Logwood, 1 Wash. (Va.) 43. A seal is a particular sign, made to attest In the most formal manner, the execution of an instrument Code Civ. Proc. Cal. § 1930. Merlin defines a seal to 'be a plate of metal with a flat surface, on which is engraved the arms of a prince or nation, or private individ ual, or other device, with which an impression may be made on wax or other substance on paper or parchment in order to authenticate them. The impression thus made is also called a "seal." Repert. mot "Sceau." -Common seal. A seal adopted and used by a corporation for authenticating its corporate acts and executing legal instruments.— Corporate seal. The official or common seal of an incorpo rated company or association.— Great seal. In English law. A seal by virtue of which a great part of the royal authority is exercised. The of fice of the lord chancellor, or lord keeper, is created by the delivery of the great seal into 'hi? custody. There is one great seal for all public acts of state which concern the United King dom. Mozley & Whitley. In American law, the United States and also each of the states has and uses a seal, always carefully described by law, and sometimes officially called the "great" seal, though, in some instances knows SEAL.

SCUTE.

A French coin of gold, coined

A. D. 1427, of the value of 3s. 4d.

SCUTEZiliA. A scuttle; anything of a flat or broad shape like a shield. Cowell. — Scutella eleemosynaria. An alms-basket.

SCUTIFER.

In old records.

Esquire;

the same as "armiger." Spelman.

SCUTUM ABMORUM.

A shield or coat

of arms. Cowell.

SCYRA.

In old English law.

Shire;

county; the inhabitants of a county.

SCYREGEMOTE. In Saxon law. The meeting or court of the shire. This was the most important court in the Saxon polity, having jurisdiction of both ecclesiastical and secular causes. Its meetings were held twice In the year. Its Latin name was "curia comitatis." Lat. In defending himself; in self-defense. Homicide commit ted se defendendo is excusable. The ocean; the great mass of wa ter which surrounds the land. U. S. v. Rod gers, 150 U. S. 249, 14 Sup. Ct. 109, 37 L. Ed. 1071; De Lovio v. Boit, 7 Fed. Cas. 428; Cole v. White, 26 Wend. (N. Y.) 516; Snow don v. Guion, 50 N. Y. Super. Ct. 143. —Beyond sea. In England, this phrase means beyond the limits of the British Isles; in America, outside the limits of the United States or of the particular state, as the case may be. —High seas. The ocean ; public waters. Ac cording to the English doctrine, the high sea begins at the distance of three miles from the coast of any country; according to the American view, at low-water mark, except in the case of small harbors and roadsteads in closed within the fauces terra. Ross v. Mc Intyre, 140 U. S. 453, 11 Sup. Ct. 897, 35 L. Ed. 581; U. S. v. Grush, 26 Fed. Cas. 50; U. S. v. Rodgers, 150 U. S. 249, 14 Sup. Ct. 109, 37 L. Ed. 1071; Ex parte Byers (D. C.) 32 Fed. 405. The open ocean outside of the fwuces terrce, as distinguished from arms of the sea; the waters of the ocean without the boundary of any county. Any waters on the sea-coast which are without the boundaries of low-water mark.— Main sea. The open, unin dorsed ocean; or that portion of the sea which is without the fauces terra on the sea-coast, in SE DEFENDENDO. SEA.