KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

SHORT NOTICE

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SHIPPING

sale of goods are frequently called "stores." Com. v. Annis, 15 Gray (Mass.) 197. —Shop-books. Books of original entry kept by tradesmen, shop-keepers, mechanics, and the like, in which are entered their accounts and charges for goods sold, work done, eta

ters and mariners; and the law relating to ship-brokers, ship-agents, pilots, etc. —Shipping articles. A written agreement be tween the master of a vessel and the mariners, specifying the voyage or term for which the lat ter are shipped, and the rate of wages.—Ship ping commissioner. An officer of the United States, appointed by the several circuit courts, within their respective jurisdictions, for each port of entry (the same being also a port of ocean navigation) which, in the judgment of such court, may require the same; his duties being to supervise the engagement and discharge of seamen; to see that men engaged as seamen report on board at the proper time; to facili tate the apprenticing of persons to the marine service; and other similar duties, such as may be required by law. Rev. St. U. S. §§ 4501 4508 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, pp. 3061-3067). SHIPWRECK. The demolition or shat tering of a vessel, caused by her driving ashore or on rocks and shoals in the mid seas, or by the violence of winds and waves in tempests. 2 Arn. Ins. p. 734. SHIRE. In English law. A county. So called because every county or shire is di vided and parted by certain metes and bounds from another. Co. Litt. 50a. —Knights of the shire. See KNIGHT.— Shire-clerk. He that keeps the county court. —Shire-man, or Scyre-man. Before the Conquest, the judge of the county, by whom trials for land, etc., were determined. Tomlins; Mozley & Whitley.—Shire-mote. The assize of the shire, or the assembly of the people, was so called by the Saxons. It was nearly if not exactly, the same as the scyregemote, and in most respects corresponded with what were afterwards called the "county courts." Brown.—Shire-reeve. In Saxon law. The reeve or bailiff of the shire. The viscount of the Anglo-Normans, and the sheriff of later times. Co. Litt. 168a. SHOCK. In medical jurisprudence. A sudden and severe depression of the vital functions, particularly of the nerves and the circulation, due to the nervous exhaustion following trauma, surgical operation, or sud den and violent emotion, resulting (if not in death) in more or less prolonged prostration; it is spoken of as being either physical or psychical, according as it is caused by dis turbance of the bodily powers and functions or of the mind. See Maynard v. Oregon R. Co., 43 Or. 63, 72 Pac. 590. SHOOFAA. In Mohammedan law. Pre emption, or a power of possessing property which has been sold, by paying a sum equal to that paid by the purchaser. Wharton. SHOP. A building in which goods and merchandise are sold at retail, or where mechanics work, and sometimes keep their products for sale. See State v. Morgan, 98 N. C. 641, 3 S. B. 927; State v. O'Connell, 26 Ind. 267; State v. Sprague, 149 Mo. 409, 50 S. W. 901. Strictly, a shop is a place where goods are sold by retail, and a store a place where goods are deposited; but, in this country, shops for the

SHOPA. In old records, a shop. Cowell.

SHORE. Land on the margin of the sea, or a lake or river. In common parlance, the word "shore" is understood to mean the line that separates the tide-water from the land about it, wher ever that line may be, and in whatever stage of the tide. The word "shore," in its legal and technical sense, indicates the lands ad jacent to navigable waters, where the tide flows and reflows, which at high tides are submerged, and at low tides are bare. Shiv ely v. Bowlby, 152 U. S. 1, 14 Sup. Ct. 548, 38 L. Ed. 331; Mather v. Chapman, 40 Conn. 400, 16 Am. Rep. 46; U. S. v. Pacheco, 2 Wall. 590, 17 L. Ed. 865; Harlan & Hollings worth Co. v. Paschall, 5 Del. Ch. 463; Lacy v. Green, 84 Pa. 519; Axline v. Shaw, 35 Pla. 305, 17 South. 411, 28 L R. A. 391. Sea-shore is that space of land over which the waters of the sea spread in the highest water, during the winter season. Civ. Code La. art. 451. When the sea-shore is referred to as a bound ary, the meaning must be understood to be the margin of the sea in its usual and ordinary state; the ground between the ordinary high water mark and low-water mark is the shore. Hence a deed of land bounded at or by the "shore" will convey the flats as appurtenant. Storer v. Freeman, 6 Mass. 435. 4 Am. Dec. 155. SHORT CAUSE. A cause which is not likely to occupy a great portion of the time of the court, and which may be entered on the list of "short causes," upon the applica tion of one of the parties, and will then be heard more speedily than it would be in its regular order. This practice obtains in the English chancery and in some of the American states. SHORT ENTRY. A custom of bankers of entering on the customer's pass-book the amount of notes deposited for collection, In such a manner that the amount Is not car ried to the latter's general balance until the notes are paid. See Giles v. Perkins, 9 East, 12; Blaine T. Bourne, 11 R. I. 121. 23 Am. Rep. 429. SHORT LEASE. A term applied collo quially, but without much precision, to a lease for a short term, (as a month or a year,) as distinguished from one running for a long period. SHORT NOTICE. In practice. Notice of less than the ordinary time; generally of half that time. 2 Tidd, Pr. 757.