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
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SOMERSETT’S CASE
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
SOLITARY IMPRISONMENT
The punishment of separate confinement. … [Read more...] about SOLITARY IMPRISONMENT
SOLEMNITY
The formality established by law to render a contract, agreement, or other act valid. 2. A marriage, for example, would not be valid if made in jest, and without solemnity. 3. A rite or ceremony; the formality established by law to render a contract, agreement or other act valid. … [Read more...] about SOLEMNITY
SOLUM PROVINCIALE
Latin: In Roman law. The solum italicum (an extension of the old Agar Romanus) admitted full ownership, and of the application to it of usucapio; whereas the solum provinciale (an extension of the old Ager Publicus) admitted of a possessory title only, and of longi tempotis possessio only. Justinian abolished all distinctions between the two, sinking the italicum to the level … [Read more...] about SOLUM PROVINCIALE