KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

SUSPICION

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BUfiSISE

by the neck. Words formerly used in Eng land in signing judgment against a prisoner who was to be executed; being written by the judge in the margin of the sheriff's cal endar or list opposite the prisoner's name. 4 Bl. Comm. 403. SUSPEND. To interrupt; to cause to cease for a time; to stay, delay, or hinder; to discontinue temporarily, but with an ex pectation or purpose of resumption. To for bid a public officer, attorney, or ecclesiastical person from performing his duties or exer cising his functions ilor a more or less definite interval of time. See Insurance Co. v. Aiken, 82 Va. 428; Stack v. O'Hara, 98 Pa. 232; Reeside v. U. S., 8 Wall. 42, 19 L.. Ed. 318; Williston v. Camp, 9 Mont. 88, 22 Pac. 501; Dyer v. Dyer, 17 R. I. 547, 23 Atl. 910; State v. Melvin, 166 Mo. 565, 66 S. W. 534; Poe v. State, 72 Tex. 625, 10 S. W. 732. See SUS PENSION. SUSPENDER. In Scotch law. He in whose favor a suspension is made. SUSPENSE. When a rent profit A pren dre, and the like, are, in consequence of the unity of possession of the rent, etc., of the land out of which they issue, not in esse for a time, they are said to be in suspense, tunc dormiunt; but they may be revived or awak ened. Co. Litt 313a. SUSPENSION. A temporary stop of a right, of a law, and the like. Thus, we speak of a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, of a statute, of the power of alienating an estate, of a person in office, etc. Suspension of a right in an estate is a tem porary or partial withholding of it from use or exercise. It differs from extinguishment because a suspended right is susceptible of being revived, which is not the case where the right was extinguished. In ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical censure, by which a spiritual person is either interdicted the exercise of his ecclesiastical function or hindered from receiving the prof its of his benefice. It may be partial or total, for a limited time, or forever, when it is called "deprivation" or "amotion." Ayl. Par. 501. In Scotch law. A stay of execution un til after a further consideration of the cause. Ersk. Inst 4, 3, 5. —Pleas in suspension, were those which showed some matter of temporary incapacity to proceed with the action or suit. Steph. PL 45.—Suspension of arms. An agreement be tween belligerents, made for a short time or for a particular place, to cease hostilities. SUSPENSIVE CONDITION. See CON DITION. SUSPICION. The act of suspecting, or the state of being suspected; imagination, generally of something ijl; distrust; mis trust; doubt McCalla v. State, 66 Oa. 348.

the court of ordinary, court of probate, etc., relating to matters of probate, etc. 2 Kent, Comm. 409, note b. And see Robinson v. Fair, 128 U. S. 53, 9 Sup. Ct. 30, 32 L. Ed. 415; In re Hawley, 104 N. Y. 250, 10 N. E. 352. SURSISE. L. Fr. In old English law. Neglect; omission; default; cessation. SURSUM BEDDERE. Lat In old con veyancing. To render up; to surrender. SURSUMREDDITIO. Lat A surren der. SURVEY. The process by which a par cel of land is measured and its contents ascer tained ; also a statement of the result of such survey, with the courses and distances and the quantity of the land. In insurance law, the term "the survey" has acquired a general meaning, inclusive of what is commonly called the "application," which contains the questions propounded on behalf of the company, and the answers of the assured. Albion Lead Works v. Williams burg City F. Ins. Co. (C. C.) 2 Fed. 484; May v. Buckeye Ins. Co., 25 Wis. 291, 3 Am. Rep. —Survey of a vessel. A public document, looked to both by underwriters and owners, as affording the means of ascertaining, at the time and place, the state and condition of the ship and other property at hazard. Potter v. Ocean Ins. Co., 3 Sumn. 43, 19 Fed. Cas. 1,173; Hathaway v. Sun Mut. Ins. Co., 8 Bosw. (N. Y.) 68. SURVEYOR. One who makes surveys of land; one who has the overseeing or care of another person's land or works. —Surveyor of highways. In English law. A person elected by the inhabitants of a parish, in vestry assembled, to survey the highways therein. He must possess certain qualifications in point of property; and, when elected, he is compellable, unless he can show some grounds of exemption, to take tipon himself the office. Mozley & Whitley.—Surveyor of the port. A revenue officer of the United States appoint ed for each of the principal ports of entry, whose duties chiefly concern the importations at his station and the determination of their amount and valuation. Rev. St. U. S. i 2627 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1810). SURVIVOR. One who survives another; one who outlives another; one of two or more persons who lives after the death of the other or others. SURVIVORSHIP. The living of one of two or more persons after the death of the other or others. Survivorship is where a person becomes entitled to property by reason of his having survived another person who had an interest in It The most familiar example is in the case of joint tenants, the rule being that on the death of one of two joint tenants the whole property passes to the survivor. Sweet SUS. PER COLL. An abbreviation of M suspendatur per collum," let him be hanged