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
SIMULATED CONTRACT
A contract that appears to be valid but is not. … [Read more...] about SIMULATED CONTRACT
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
SIMULATED FACT
A lie. A falsely alleged or manufactured fact. … [Read more...] about SIMULATED FACT
SINE
Latin: Withou. Sine animo revertendi. Without the intention of returning. 1 Kent, Comm. 78. Sine assensu capital!. Without the consent of the chapter. In old English practice. A Writ which lay where a dean, bishop, prebendary, abbot, prior, or master of a hospital aliened the lands holden In the right of his house, abbey, or priory, without the consent of the chapter; in which … [Read more...] about SINE