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Payments made to an ex-spouse for a certain period of time until the lower income spouse is able to become economically self-sufficient. See also alimony. … [Read more...] about SPOUSAL SUPPORT

A contraction of "esquire." … [Read more...] about SQUIRE

That of which there is hope. Thus a debt which one may hope to recover may be called "sperate," in opposition to "desperate." See 1 Chit. Pr. 520. … [Read more...] about SPERATE

Lat. A spoiler or destroyer. It is a maxim of law, bearing chiefly on evidence, but also upon the value generally of the thing destroyed, that everything most to his disadvantage is to be presumed against the destroyer, (spoliator,) contra spoliatorem omnia prcesumuntur. 1 Smith, Lead. Cas. 315. Spoliatns debet ante omnia restitni. A party despoiled [forcibly deprived of … [Read more...] about SPOLIATOR

Lat. Hope of surviving. 3 Atk. 762 ; 2 Kent, Comm. 424. Spos est Tigilantis somninm. Hope is the dream of the vigilant 4 Inst. 203. Spes impnnitatis continnnm affectum tribuit delinquendi. The hope of impunity holds out a continual temptation to crime. 3 Inst 236. … [Read more...] about SPES ACCRESCENDI