KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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SPECIAL

SOVEREIGN

SPADARIUS.

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ry" rights as a state, like any private # person, may have in property or demands which it owns. See St. Paul v. Chicago, etc., R. Co., 45 Minn. 387, 48 N. W. 17.—Sovereign states. States whose subjects or citizens are in the habit of obedience to them, and which are not them selves subject to any other (or paramount) state in any respect. The state is said to be semi sovereign only, and not sovereign, when in any respect or respects it is liable to be controlled (like certain of the states in India) by a para mount government, (e. g., by the British empire.) Brown. "In the intercourse of nations, certain states have a position of entire independence of others, and can perform all those acts which it is possible for any state to perform in this par ticular sphere. These same states have also entire power of self-government; that is, of in dependence upon all other states as far as their own territory and citizens not living abroad are concerned. No foreign power or law can have control except by convention. This power of independent action in external and internal re lations constitutes complete sovereignty." Wools. Pol. Science, I. 204. The possession of sovereign power; supreme political author ity; paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and its administra tion; the self-sufficient source of political power, from which all specific political pow ers are derived; the international independ ence of a state, combined with the right and power of regulating its internal affairs with out foreign dictation; also a political society, or state, which is sovereign and independent See Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dall. 455, 1 L. Ed. 440; Union Bank v. Hill, 3 Cold. (Tenn.) 325; Moore v. Shaw, 17 Cal. 218, 79 Am. Dec. 123. "The freedom of the nation has its correlate in the sovereignty of the nation. Political sovereignty is the assertion of the self-determi nate will of the organic people, and in this there is the manifestation of its freedom. It is in and through the determination of its sovereign ty that the order of the nation is constituted and maintained." Mulford, Nation, p. 129. "If a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a given so ciety, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society, and the society (including the su perior) is a society political and independent." Aust. Jur. SOVERTIE. In old Scotch law. Surety. Skene. SOWLE6ROVE. February; so called in South Wales. Cowell. SOWMING AND ROWMING. In Scotch law. Terms used to express the form by which the number of cattle brought upon a common by those having a servitude of pasturage may be justly proportioned to the rights of the different persons possessed of the servitude. Bell. SOWNE. In old English law. To be leviable. An old exchequer term applied to sheriff's returns. 4 Inst. 107; Cowell; Spel man. SOVEREIGNTY.

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SPADONES. Lat In the civil law. Im potent persons. Those who, on account of their temperament or some accident they have suffered, are unable to procreate. Inst 1, 11, 9; Dig. 1, 7, 2, 1. SPARSIM. Lat Here and there; scat tered; at intervals. For instance, trespass to realty by cutting timber sparsim (here and there) through a tract SPAT.X PLACITUM. In old English law. A court for the speedy execution of justice upon military delinquents. Cowell. SPEAK. In practice. To argue. "The case was ordered to be spoke to again." 10 Mod. 107. See IMPARLANCE; SPEAKING WITH PEOSECUTOB. SPEAKER. This is the official designa tion of the president or chairman of certain legislative bodies, particularly of the house of representatives in the congress of the United States, of one or both branches of several of the state legislatures, and of the two houses of the British parliament The term "speaker," as used in reference to either of the houses* of parliament, signi fies the functionary acting as chairman. In the commons his duties are to put questions, to preserve order, and to see that the privi leges of the house are not infringed; and, in the event of the numbers being even on a division, he has the privilege of giving the casting vote. The speaker of the lords is the lord chancellor or the lord keeper of the great seal of England, or, if he be absent, the lords may choose their own speaker. The duties of the speaker of the lords are principally confined to putting questions, and the lord chancellor has no more to do with preserving order than any other peer. Brown. SPEAKING WITH PROSECUTOR. A method of compounding an offense, allowed in the English practice, where the court per mits a defendant convicted of a misdemeanor to speak with the prosecutor before judg ment is pronounced; if the prosecutor de clares himself satisfied, the court may in flict a trivial punishment. 4 Steph. Comm. 261. SPECIAL. Relating to or designating a species, kind, or sort; designed for a particu lar purpose; confined to a particular pur- SPEAKING DEMURRER. See DEMUB BEB. SPEAKING ORDER. See ORDER.