Lat. Together and at one time. … [Read more...] about SIMUL ET SEMEL
SIMULTANEOUS DEATH ACT
Where two beneficiaries to an estate die at the same time or it cannot be determined who died first, the statute provides that it is to be treated in each instance as if the deceased person died before the other. … [Read more...] about SIMULTANEOUS DEATH ACT
SIMULATED CONTRACT
A contract that appears to be valid but is not. … [Read more...] about SIMULATED CONTRACT
SIMULATE
To feign, pretend, or counterfeit. To engage, usually with the co-op-peration or connivance of another person, in an act or series of acts, which are apparently transacted in good faith, and intended to be followed by their ordinary legal consequences, but which in reality conceal a fraudulent purpose of the party to gain thereby some advantage to which he is not entitled, or … [Read more...] about SIMULATE
SINDERESIS
"A natural power of the soul, set in the highest part thereof, moving and stirring it to good, and adhorring evil And therefore sinderesis never slnneth nor erreth. And this sinderesis our Lord put in man, to the Intent that the order of things should he observed. And therefore sinderesis is called by some men the 'law of reason,' for it mlnlstereth the principles of the law of … [Read more...] about SINDERESIS