The copyright that is obtained as a result of fixation or recording of music or other sounds (including spoken or sung words) onto some medium. The recording can protect the manner in which a performance is performed. Typically the people who claim a copyright in a sound recording may be the performer, producer, or recording company. … [Read more...]
SOUNDING IN DAMAGES
When an action is brought, not for the recovery of lands, goods, or sums of money, (as is the case in real or mixed actions, or the personal action of debt or detinue,) but for damages only, as in covenant, trespass, the action is said to be sounding in damages. … [Read more...]
SOUNDNESS
In usual health; without any permanent disease. To create unsoundness, it is requisite that the animal should not be useful for the purpose for which he is bought, and that inability to be so useful should arise from disease or accident. … [Read more...]
SOLVENDO
Latin: Paying. An apt word of reserving a rent In old conveyances. Co. Litt 47a. … [Read more...]
SOON
If there is no time specified for the performance of an act or if it is specified that it is to be performed soon, the law implies that it is to be performed within o a reasonable time. Sanford v. Shephard, 14 Kan. 232. … [Read more...]