KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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ica. The term is also applied to the person appointed to manage the affairs of a corpora tion. See Field v. United States, 9 Pet. 182, 9 L. Ed. 94. SYNDICATE. A university committee. A combination of persons or firms united for the purpose of enterprises too large for indi viduals to undertake; or a group of financiers who buy up the shares of a company in order to sell them at a profit by creating a scarcity. Mozley & Whitley. SYNDICOS. One chosen by a college, mu nicipality, etc., to defend its cause. Calvin, SYNGRAPH. The name given by the canonists to deeds of which both parts were written on the same piece of parchment, with some word or letters of the alphabet written between them, through which the parchment was cut in such a manner as to leave half the word on one part and half on the other. It thus corresponded to the chirograph or in denture of the common law. 2 Bl. Comm 295, 296. A deed or other written Instrument under the hand and seal of all the parties. SYNOD. A meeting or assembly of eccle siastical persons concerning religion; being the same thing, in Greek, as convocation in Latin. There are four kinds: (1) A general or universal synod or council, where bishops of all nations meet; (2) a national synod of the clergy of one nation only; (3) a provin cial synod, where ecclesiastical persons of a province only assemble, being now what is called the "convocation;" (4) a diocesan syn od, of those of one diocese. See Com. v. Green, 4 Whart (Pa.) 560; Groesbeeck y. Dunscomb, 41 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 344. A synod in Scotland is composed of three or more presbyteries. Wharton. SYNODAL. A tribute or payment in mon ey paid to the bishop or archdeacon by the Inferior clergy, at the Easter visitation. SYNODALES TESTES. L. Lat. Syn ods-men (corrupted into sidesmen) were the urban and rural deans, now the church-war dens. SYPHILIS. In medical jurisprudence. A loathsome venereal disease (vulgarly called "the pox") of peculiar virulence, infectious by direct contact capable of hereditary trans mission, and the fruitful source of various other diseases and, directly or Indirectly, of insanity.

SYLLOGISM. In logic. The full logic al form of a single argument. It consists of three propositions, (two premises and the conclusion,) and these contain three terms, of which the two occurring in the conclusion are brought together in the premises by being referred to a common class. SYLVA C32DUA. Lat In ecclesiastical law. Wood of any kind which was kept on purpose to be cut, and which, being cut, grew again from the stump or root. Lynd. Prov. 190; 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 90. SYMBOLiEOGRAPHY. The art or cun ning rightly to form and make written instru ments. It is either judicial or extrajudicial; the latter being wholly occupied with such instruments as concern matters not yet judi cially in controversy, such as instruments of agreements or contracts, and testaments or last wills. Wharton. SYMBOLIC DELIVERY. The construct ive delivery of the subject-matter of a sale, where it is cumbersome or inaccessible, by the actual delivery of seme article which is conventionally accepted as the symbol or rep resentative of it, or which renders access to it possible, or which is evidence of the pur chaser's title to it. SYMBOLUM ANIMZE. Lat A mortu ary, or soul-scot SYMOND'S INN. Formerly an inn of chancery. In the civil law. A bilateral or reciprocal con tract, in which the parties expressly enter into mutual engagements, each binding him self to the other. Poth. Obi. no. 9. SYNCOPARE. To cut short, or pro nounce things so as not to be understood. Cowell. SYNDIC. In the civil law. An advo cate or patron; a burgess or recorder; an agent or attorney who acts for a corporation or university; an actor or procurator; an assignee. Wharton. See Minnesota L. & T. Co. v. Beebe, 40 Minn. 7, 41 N. W. 232, 2 L. R. A. 418; Mobile & O. R. Co. v. Whitney, 39 Ala. 471. In French law. The person who is com missioned by the courts to administer a bank ruptcy. He fulfills the same functions as the trustee in English law, or assignee in Amei*» SYNALLAGMATIC CONTRACT.