In French law. A party desirous of repurchasing property at auction before the court can, by offering one-tenth or one-sixth, according to the case, in addition to the price realized at the sale, oblige the property to be put up once more at auction. This bid upon a bid is called a "aurenchere." Arg. Fr. Merc Law, 575. … [Read more...] about SURENCHERE
SURRENDER OF CRIMINALS
The act by which the public authorities deliver a person accused of a crime, and who is found in their, jurisdiction, to the authorities within whose jurisdiction it is alleged the crime has been committed. Vide Extradition; Fugitives from justice. … [Read more...] about SURRENDER OF CRIMINALS
SURETY
contracts. A person who binds himself for the payment of a sum of money or for the performance of something else, for another, who is already bound for the same. A surety differs from a guarantor, and the latter cannot be sued until after a suit against the principal. 10 Watts, 258. 2. The surety differs from bail in this, that the latter actually has, or is by law presumed to … [Read more...] about SURETY
SURREJOINDER
In pleading. The plaintiff's answer of fact to the defendant's rejoinder. Steph. PI. 59. … [Read more...] about SURREJOINDER
SURRENDER
estates, conveyancing. A yielding up of an estate for life or years to him who has an immediate estate in reversion or remainder, by which the lesser estate is merged in the greater by mutual agreement, Co. Litt. 337, b. 2. A surrender is of a nature directly opposite to a release; for, as the latter operates by the greater estate descending upon the less, the former is the … [Read more...] about SURRENDER