Incapacity to contract arising from the impairment of the Intellectual faculties by old age. … [Read more...] about SENILITY
SEMINARY
A place of education. Any school, academy, college, or university in which young persons are Instructed in the several branches of learning which may qualify them for their future employments. Webster. The word is said to have acquired no fixed and definite legal meaning. See Chegaray v. New York, 13 N. Y. 229; Maddox v. Adair (Tex. Civ. App.) 66 S. W. 811; Miami-County v. … [Read more...] about SEMINARY
SEMINARIUM
Lat. In the civil law. A nursery of trees. Dig. 7, 1, 9, 6. … [Read more...] about SEMINARIUM
SEMI-PROOF
civ. law. Presumptions of fact are so called. This degree of proof is thus deaned: Non est ignorandum, probationem semiplenam eam esse, per quam rei gestae fides aliqua fit judici; non tamen tanta ut jure debeat in pronuncianda sententia eam sequi. … [Read more...] about SEMI-PROOF
SEMINAUFRAGIUM
Latin: In maritime law. Half-shipwreck, as where goods are cast overboard in a storm; also where a ship has been so much damaged that her repair costs more than her worth. Wharton. … [Read more...] about SEMINAUFRAGIUM