In mercantile law. Foreign bills are usually drawn in duplicate or triplicate, the several parts being called respectively "flrst of exchange," "second of exchange," etc., and these parts together constitute a "set of exchange." Any one of them being paid, the others become void. … [Read more...] about SET OF EXCHANGE
SET OUT
In pleading. To recite or narrate facts or circumstances; to allege or aver; to describe or to incorporate; as, to set out a deed or contract First Nat Bank v. Engelbercht 58 Neb. 639, 79 N. W. 556; U. S. v. Watkins, 28 Fed. Cas. 436. … [Read more...] about SET OUT
SERVUS
Lat. In the civil and old English law. A slave; a bondman. Inst 1, 8, pr.; Bract fol. 4b. … [Read more...] about SERVUS
SET DOWN
To set down a cause for trial or hearing at a given term is to enter ita title in the calendar, list or docket of causes which are to be brought on at that term. … [Read more...] about SET DOWN
SERVITUS STILLICLDII
civil law. The name of a servitude which obliges the owner of an estate to receive, or his right to turn aside, the droppings or stream from his neighbor's house. … [Read more...] about SERVITUS STILLICLDII