Latin for Lawyers

L ATIN FOR L AWYERS

another, usually for compensation. A contribution to the welfare of others. Also, the armed forces of a nation, as the military services . To pay the install ments of principal and interest due on a debt or mortgage. A service charge is a charge added to a bill to compensate for the processing of a transaction. A service mark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and distin guishes a proprietary service instead of a product. A word, name or symbol used to distinguish the services of one company from all others, and to point to the source of service. Example: the Friendly Skies (of United Air Lines). SERVIENT [L. servire / to be enslaved] Acting in support of; serving; providing services for. A servient estate is a property interest which is burdened with a duty to another estate. A servient tenement is the name given to a parcel of land which is burdened with or sub ject to an easement in favor of another parcel of land. The latter parcel is called the dominant tenement. SERVITIUM The Latin word for personal service. The service rendered by a tenant under the feudal system to the lord of the manor. Servitium forinsecum was the ser vice due by the tenant to the king himself, separate and apart from the service due by him the lord of the manor. Servitium liberum referred to services ren dered by free men, as distinguished from the services of serfs and vassals. SERVITUDE [L. servire / to be enslaved] The state or condition of being so firmly in the control or service of another as to lack the essential freedoms of movement, allegiance, speech, etc. A lack of liberty. Also, in law, the obligation of the owner of one piece of land to allow the use of his land by another for the special benefit or enjoyment of the latter. SESSION [L. sessio / a meeting for purposes of discussion (from sessitare / to sit often or for a long time)] A meeting or series of meetings, as of a legislature or court. The period between the beginning and the end of a prescribed series of sittings of a legis lative or judicial body. A meeting devoted to a particular purpose. The name sometimes given to various courts, as the English Sessions Courts. That period during which a court actually sits for the transaction of business. (“The court is now in session.”) SETTLE [L. sella / seat, chair, stool] To put in place. To establish a residence. To resolve a dispute. To make quiet or orderly. To conclude a law suit by agreement of the parties instead of by judicial disposition. To pay a bill or obligation. To adjust the differences between parties. To conclude an arrangement with creditors.

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