A term used by the U.S Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) which refers to entities entitled to a fee discount: a for-profit company with 500 or fewer employees, a nonprofit organization or an independent person who is an inventor. … [Read more...] about SMALL ENTITY
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SMALL TITHES
All personal and mixed tithes, and also hops, flax, saffrons, potatoes, and sometimes, by custom, wood. Otherwise called "privy tithes." 2 Steph. Comm. 726. … [Read more...] about SMALL TITHES
SMART-MONEY
Vindictive or exemplary damages. See Brewer v. Jacobs (C. C.) 22 Fed. 224; Springer v. Somers Fuel Co., 196 Pa. 156, 46 Ati. 370; Day v. Woodworth, 13 How. 371, 14 L. Ed. 181; Murphy v. Hobbs, 7 Colo. 541, 5 Pac. 119, 49 Am. Rep. 366. … [Read more...] about SMART-MONEY
SMOKE-FARTHINGS
In old English law. An annual rent paid to cathedral churches; another name for the pentecostals or customary oblations offered by the dispersed inhabitants within a diocese, when they made their processions to the mother cathedral church. Cowell. … [Read more...] about SMOKE-FARTHINGS
SKILL
contracts. The art of doing a thing as it ought to be done. 2. Every person who purports to have skill in la business, and undertakes for hire to perform it, is bound to do it with ordinary skill, and is responsible civilly in damages for the want of it; and sometimes he is responsible criminally. 3. The degree of skill and diligence required, rises in proportion to the value … [Read more...] about SKILL