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
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SPES ACCRESCENDI
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
SPOLIUM
Lat. In the civil and common law. A thing violently or unlawfully taken from another. … [Read more...] about SPOLIUM
SPECIFICATION
(A) civil law. A term used in the civil law, by which is meant a person's making a new species or subject from materials belonging to another. 2. When the new species can be again reduced to the matter of which it was made, the law considers the former mass as still existing, and, therefore, the new species as an accessory to the former subject; but where the thing made cannot … [Read more...] about SPECIFICATION
SPECIMEN
A sample; a part of something by which the other may be known. 2. The act of congress of July 4, 1836, section 6, requires the inventor or discoverer of an invention or discovery to accompany his petition and specification for a patent with specimens of ingredients, an of the composition of matter, sufficient in quantity for the purpose of experiment, where the invention or … [Read more...] about SPECIMEN