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Sleep-walking. Whether this condition is anything more than a cooperation of the voluntary muscles with the thoughts which occupy the mind during sleep is not settled by physiologists. Wharton. … [Read more...] about SOMNAMBULISM

In ecclesiastical law, an officer of the ecclesiastical courts whose duty was to serve citations or process. … [Read more...] about SOMPNOUR

An immediate male descendant;. the, correlative of "father." Technically a word of purchase, unless explained. Its meaning may be extended by construction to include more remote descendants, such as a grandchild, and also to include an illegitimate male child, though the presumption is against this. See Flora v. Anderson … [Read more...] about SON

pleading. His own first assault. A form of a plea to justify an assault and battery, by which the defendant asserts that the plaintiff committed an assault upon him, and the defendant merely defended himself. 2. When the plea is supported by evidence, it is a sufficient justification, unless the retaliation by the defendant were excessive, and bore no proportion to the … [Read more...] about SON ASSAULT DEMESNE

in Latin called gener. The husband of one's daughter. … [Read more...] about SON-IN-LAW