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pleading. The name of a special plea in bar to an action of debt on a bond, by which the defendant asserts that he paid the money after the day it became due. … [Read more...] about SOLVITPOSTDIEM

A celebrated decision of the English king's bench, in 1771, (20 How. St. Tr. 1,) that slavery no longer existed in England in any form, and could not for the future exist on English soil, and that any person brought into England as a slave could not be thence removed except by the legal means applicable in the case of any free born person. … [Read more...] about SOMERSETT’S CASE

In French law. A demand served by a huissier, by which one Party calls upon another to do or not to do a certain thing. This document has for its object to establish that upon a certain date the demand was made. Arg. FT. Merc. Law, 574. … [Read more...] about SOMMATION

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