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Lat. In practice. The name given to the sheriff's return to a writ of scire facias that he has caused notice to be given to the party or parties against whom the writ was issued. 2 Archb. Pr. K. B. 98, 99. … [Read more...] about SCIRE FECI

A spark of evidence, usually used to infer that there is almost no evidence at all to support a proposition but it is still small enough to warrant a matter to be decided by a jury. … [Read more...] about SCINTILLA OF EVIDENCE

Lat. In old English law. A cutting. Scissio auricularum, cropping of the ears. An old punishment Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38, I 10. … [Read more...] about SCISSIO

Eng. law. The name of a writ, the history of the origin of which is as follows: when on an execution de bonis testatoris against an executor the sheriff returned nulla bona and also a devastavit, a fieri facias, de bonis propriis, might formerly have been issued against the executor, without a previous inquisition finding a devastavit and a scire facias. But the most usual … [Read more...] about SCIRE FIERI INQUIRY

estates; A spark of right. A legal fiction, resorted to for the purpose of enabling feoffees to uses to support contingent uses when they come into existence, thereby to enable the statutes of uses, 27 Henry VIII., to execute them. 4 Kent's Com. 238, et seq., and the authorities there cited, for the learning upon this subject. … [Read more...] about SCINTILLA JURIS