KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

STAFF-HERDING

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STANDARD OF WEIGHT

STAFF-HERDING. The following of cattle within a forest. STAGE-RIGHT is a word which It has been attempted to introduce as a substitute for "the right of representation and perform ance," but it can hardly be said to be an ac cepted term of English or American law. Sweet. STAGIARIT7S. A resident Cowell. STAGNUM. In old English law. A pool, or pond. Co. Litt 5a; Johnson v. Rayner, 6 Gray (Mass.) 110. STAKE. A deposit made to answer an event, as on a wager. See Harris v. White, 81 N. Y. 539; Porter v. Day, 71 Wis. 296, 37 N. W. 259; Mohr v. Miesen, 47 Minn. 228, 49 N. W. 862. —Stakeholder primarily means a person with whom money is deposited pending the decision of a bet or wager, (q. v.,) but it is more often used to mean a person who holds money or prop erty which is claimed by rival claimants, but in which he himself claims no interest. Sweet. And see Oriental Bank v. Tremont Ins. Co., 4 Mete. (Mass.) 10; Fisher v. Hildreth, 117 Mass. 562; Wabash R. Co. v. Flannigan, 95 Mo. App. 477, 75 S. W. 691. STAXE, adj. In the language of the courts of equity, a "stale" claim or demand is one which has not been pressed or asserted for so long a time that the owner or creditor is chargeable with laches, and that changes occurring meanwhile in the relative situation of the parties, or the intervention of new interests or equities, would render the en forcement of the claim or demand against conscience. See The Galloway C. Morris, 2 Abb. U. S. 164, 9 Fed. Cas. 1,111; King v. White, 63 Vt 158, 21 Atl. 535, 25 Am. St Rep. 752; Ashurst v. Peck, 101 Ala. 499, 14 South. 541; The Harriet Ann, 11 Fed. Cas. 597. STALLAGE. The liberty or right of pitching or erecting stalls in fairs or markets, or the money paid for the same. 1 Steph. Comm. 664. STALLARIUS. In Saxon law. The prcefectus stabuli, now master of the horse. Sometimes one who has a stall in a fair or market STAMP. An impression made by public authority, in pursuance of law, upon paper / or parchment, upon which certain legal pro ceedings, conveyances, or ^contracts are re quired to be written, and for which a tax or duty is exacted. A small label or strip of paper, bearing a particular device, printed and sold by the STALE, ». In Saxon law. Larceny. Wharton.

government, and required to be attached t£ mail-matter, and to some other articles subr Jeot to duty or excise. —Stamp acts. In English law. Acts regutafti ing the stamps upon deeds, contracts, agree* ments, papers in law proceedings, bills and notes* letters, receipts^ and other papers.—Stamp d«» ties. Duties imposed upon and raised from stamps upon parchment and paper, and forming a branch of the perpetual revenue of the king dom. 1 Bl. Comm. 323. STANCE. In Scotch law. A resting place; a field or place adjoining a drove-road, for resting and refreshing sheep and cattle on their journey. 7 Bell, App. Cas. 53, 57, 58. STAND. To abide; to submit to; as "to ttand a trial." To remain as a thing is; to remain in force. Pleadings demurred to and held good are al lowed to stand. To appear in court —Standing aside jurors. A practice by which, on the drawing of a jury for a criminal trial, the prosecuting officer puts aside a juror, provisionally, until the panel is exhausted, with out disclosing his reasons, instead of being re quired to challenge him and show cause. The statute 33 Edw. I. deprived the crown of the power to challenge jurors without showing cause, and the practice of standing aside jurors was adopted, in England, as a method of evad ing its provisions. A similar practice is in use in Pennsylvania. See Warren v. Com., 37 Pa. 54; Zell v. Com., 94 Pa. 272; Haines v. Com., 100 Pa. 322. But in Missouri, it is said that the words "stand aside" are the usual formula, used in impaneling a jury, for rejecting a jur or. State v. Hultz, 106 Mo. 41, 16 S. W. 94a —Standing by is used in law as implying knowledge, under such circumstances as ren dered it the duty of the possessor to communi cate it; and it is such knowledge, and not they mere fact of "standing by," that lays the foun dation of responsibility. The phrase does not import an actual presence, "but implies knowl edge under such circumstances as to render it the duty of the possessor to communicate it.~ Anderson v. Hubble, 93 Ind. 573, 47 Am. Rep. 394; Gatling v. Rodman, 6 Ind. 292; Richard son v. Chickering, 41 N. H. 380, 77 Am. Dec. 769; Morrison v. Morrison, 2 Dana (Ky.) 16. —Standing mute. A prisoner, arraigned for treason or felony, was said to "stand mute," when he refused to plead, or answered foreign to the purpose, or, after a plea of not guilty, would not put himself upon the country.— Standing orders are rules and forms regulat ing the procedure of the two houses of parlia ment, each having its own. They are of equal force in every parliament, except so far as they are altered or suspended from time to time. Cox, Inst. 136; May, Pari. Pr. 185.—Standing seised to uses. A covenant to stand seised to uses is one by which the owner of an estate cov enants to hold the same to the use of another person, usually a relative, and usually in consid eration of blood or marriage. It is a species of conveyance depending for its effect on the stat ute of uses. STANDARD. An ensign or flag used in war. STANDARD OF WEIGHT, or MEAS URE. A weight or measure fixed and pre scribed by law, to which all other weight* and measures are required to correspond.