KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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STUMPAGE. The sum agreed to be paid to an owner of land for trees standing (or lying) upon his land, the purchaser being permitted to enter upon the land and to cut down and remove the trees; in other words, it is the price paid for a license to cut Blood v. Drummond, 67 Me. 478. STUPRUM. Lat In the civil law. Un lawful intercourse with a woman. Distin guished from adultery as being committed with a virgin or widow. Dig. 48, 5, 6. STURGEON. A royal fish which, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coast, is the property of the sovereign. 2 Steph. Comm. 19», 54a STYLE. As a verb, to call, name, or en title one; as a noun, the title or appellation of a person. SUA SPONTE. Lat Of his or its own will or motion; voluntarily; without prompt ing or suggestion. SUABLE. That which may be sued. SUAPTE NATURA. Lat. In its own nature. Suapte riatura sterilis, barren in its own nature and quality; intrinsically bar ren. 5 Maule & S. 170. SUB. Lat. Under; upon. —Sub colore juris. Under color of right; under a show or appearance of right or right ful power.—Sub conditione. Upon condition. The proper words to express a condition in a conveyance, and to create an estate upon con dition. Graves v. Deterling, 120 N. Y. 447, 24 N. D. 655.—Sub disjunctione. In the al ternative. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60, § 21.—Sub ju- -dice. Under or before a judge or court; un der judicial consideration; undetermined 12 East, 409.—Sub modo. Under a qualification; subject to a restriction or condition.—Sub nomine, Under the name; in the name of; under the title of.—Sub pede sigilli. Under the foot of the seal; under seal. 1 Strange, 521.'—Sub potestate. Under, or subject to, the power of another; used of a wife, child, slave, or other person not sui juris. —Sub salvo •et seouro conductu. Under safe and secure conduct. 1 Strange, 430. Words in the old writ of habeas corpus. —Sub silentio. Under silence; without any notice being taken. Pass ing a thing tub silentio may be evidence of con sent.—Sub spe reconciliationis. Under the hope of reconcilement. 2 Kent, Comm. 127.— Sub suo periculo. At his own risk. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 5, § 5. SUB-BALLIVUS. In old English law. An under-bailiff; a sheriff's deputy. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 68, § 2. SUB-BOIS. Coppice-wood. 2 Inst. 642. SUBAGENT. An under-agent; a substi tuted agent; an agent appointed by one who Is himself an agent. 2 Kent, Comm. 633. SUBALTERN. An inferior or subordi nate officer. An officer who exercises his authority under the superintendence and control of a superior.

SUBCONTRACT. See CONTRACT. SUBDITUS. Lat In old English law. A vassal; a dependent; any one under the power of another. Spelman. SUBDIVIDE. To divide a part into smaller parts; to separate into smaller divi sions. As, where an estate is to be taken by some of the heirs per stirpes, it is divided and subdivided according to the number of takers in the nearest degree and those in the more remote degree respectively. SUBDUCT. In English probate practice, to subduct a caveat is to withdraw it SUBHASTARE. Lat In the civil law. To sell at public auction, which was done sub hasta, under a spear; to put or sell under the spear. Calvin. SUBHASTATIO. Lat. In the civil law. A sale by public auction, which was done under a spear, fixed up at the place of sale as a public sign of it Calvin. SUBINFEUDATION. The system which the feudal tenants introduced of granting smaller estates out of those which they held of their lord, to be held of themselves as inferior lords. As this system was proceed ing downward 'ad infinitum, and depriving the lords of their feudal profits, it was en tirely suppressed by the statute Quia Emp tores, 18 Edw. I. c. 1., and instead of it al ienation in the modern sense was introduced, so that thenceforth the alienee held of the same chief lord and by the same services that his alienor before him held. Brown. SUBJECT. In logic. That concerning which the affirmation in a proposition is made; the first word in a proposition. An individual matter considered as the ob ject of legislation. The constitutions of sev eral of the states require that every act of the legislature shall relate to but one subject, which shall be expressed in the title of the statute. See Ex parte Thomas, 113 Ala. 1, 21 South. 369; In re Mayer, 50 N. Y. 504; State v. County Treasurer, 4 S. C. 528; John son v. Harrison, 47 Minn. 577, 50 N. W. 923, 28 Am. St Rep. 382. In constitutional law. One that owes al legiance to a sovereign and is governed by his laws. The natives of Great Britain are sub jects of the British government. Men in free governments are subjects as well as citizens; as citizens they enjoy rights and franchises; as subjects they are bound to obey the laws. Webster. The term is little used, in this sense, in countries enjoying a republican form of government See The Pizarro, 2 Wheat. 245, 4 L. Ed. 226; U. S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U. S. 649, 18 Sup. Ct 456, 42 L. Ed. 890. In Scotch law. The thing which is the object of an agreement