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See elective share. … [Read more...] about SPOUSAL SHARE

One who settles on the lands of others without any legal authority; this term is applied particularly to persons who settle on the public land. … [Read more...] about SQUATTER

That of which there is hope. 2. In the accounts of an executor and the inventory of the personal assets, he should distinguish between those assets which are separate, and those which are desperate; he will be prima facie responsible for the former, and discharged for the latter. … [Read more...] about SPERAT

(A) Eng. eccl. law. The name of a suit sued out in the spiritual court to recover for the fruits of the church, or for the church itself. . 2. It is also a waste of church property by an ecclesiastical person. 3 Bl. Com. 90. (B) torts. Destruction of a thing by the act of a stranger; as, the erasure or alteration of a writing by the act of a stranger, is called spoliation. This … [Read more...] about SPOLIATION

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