practice. The putting a verdict in writing, and placing it in an envelop, which is sealed. To relieve jurors after they have agreed, it is not unusual for the counsel to agree that the jury shall seal their verdict, and then separate. When the court is again in session, the jury come in and give their verdict, in all respects as if it had not been sealed, and a juror may … [Read more...] about SEALING OF A VERDICT
SEALED INSTRUMENT
A legal document that has been executed and sealed by the maker of the document. … [Read more...] about SEALED INSTRUMENT
SEAMAN
A sailor; a mariner; one whose business is navigation. The term seamen, in it most enlarged sense, includes the captain a well as other persons of the crew; in a more confined signification, it extends only to the common sailors; are considered, as to their rights to sue in the admiralty, as common seamen; and persons employed on board of steamboats and lighters, engaged in … [Read more...] about SEAMAN
SEA SHORE
property. That space of land, on the border of the sea, which is alternately covered and left dry, by the rising and falling of the tide or, in other words, that space of land between high and low water mark. 2. Generally, the sea shore belongs to the public. 3. By the Roman law, the shore included the land as far as the greatest wave extended in winter … [Read more...] about SEA SHORE
SCUTIFER
In old records. Esquire; the same as "armiger." Spelman. … [Read more...] about SCUTIFER