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Latin meaning Knowingly. … [Read more...] about SCIENS

The name of a writ in use in Pennsylvania, which lies by a defendant in foreign attachment against the plaintiff, in order to enable him, within a year and a day next ensuing the time of payment to the plaintiff in the attachment, to disprove or avoid the debt recovered against him. … [Read more...] about SCIRE FACIAS AD DISPROBANDUM DEBTTUM

Latin for spark. The smallest, minute trace. A miniature particle, e.g. the presence of a "scintilla of evidence." Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Lat. A spark; a remaining particle; the least particle. Scintilla Juris. In real property law. A spark of right or interest. By this figurative expression was denoted the small particle of interest which, by a fiction … [Read more...] about SCINTILLA

Latin: In English law. The name given to a clause inserted in the record by which it is made "known that the justice here in court in this same term, delivered a writ thereupon to the deputy-sheriff of the county aforesaid, to be executed in due form of law." Lee, Diet "Record." … [Read more...] about SCIENDUM

A troublesome and angry woman, who, by brawling and wrangling among her neighbors, breaks the public peace, increases discord, and becomes a public nuisance to the neighborhood. Common scold. One who, by the practice of frequent scolding, disturbs the neighborhood. … [Read more...] about SCOLD