In English law, are lands acquired by a railway company under its statutory powers, and not required for the purposes of its undertaking. The company is bound within a certain time to sell such lands, and, if it does not, they vest in and become the property of the owners, of the adjoining lands. Sweet … [Read more...] about SUPERFLUOUS LANDS
SUO MOTO
Latin for on its own motion. When a court or a government entity takes an action on its own account and not as a result of a party asking or making a motion to move the court or the entity to act. … [Read more...] about SUO MOTO
SUPERFICIARIUS
civ. law. He who has built upon the soil of another, which he has hired for a number of years or forever, yielding a yearly rent. … [Read more...] about SUPERFICIARIUS
SUPERFICIARIES
Lat. In the civil law. He who has built upon the soil of another, which he has hired for a number of years or forever, yielding a yearly rent Dig. 43, 18, 1. In other words, a tenant on ground-rent … [Read more...] about SUPERFICIARIES
SUPERFOETATION
med. jur. The conception of a second embryo, during the gestation of the first, or the conception of a child by a woman already pregnant with another, during the time of such pregnancy. 2. This doctrine, though doubted, seems to be established by numerous cases. … [Read more...] about SUPERFOETATION