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SLIPPA

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A stirrup. There is a tenure of land in Cambridgeshire by holding the sovereign's stirrup. Wharton. … [Read more...]

SMUGGLING

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The offense of importing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed Indifferently either upon the excise or customs revenue. Wharton. … [Read more...]

SLOUGH

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An arm of a river, flowing between islands and the main-land, and separating the islands from one another. Sloughs have not the breadth of the main river, nor does the main body of water of the stream flow through them. Dunlieth & D. Bridge Co. v. Dubuque County, 55 Iowa, 565 8 N. W. 443. … [Read more...]

SNOTTERING SILVER

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A small duty which was paid by servile tenants in Wy legh to the abbot of Colchester. Cowell. … [Read more...]

SLANDERE

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A calumniator, who maliciously and without reason imputes a crime or fault to another, of which he is innocent. 2. For this offence, when the slander is merely verbal, the remedy is an action on the case for damages; when it is reduced to writing or printing, it is a libel. … [Read more...]

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