Latin: Simple; single; pure; unqualified. Simplex beneficium. In ecclesiastical law. A minor dignity in a cathedral or collegiate church, or any other ecclesiastical benefice, as distinguished from a cure of souls. It may therefore be held with any parochial cure, without coming under the prohibitions against pluralities. Simplex dictum. In old English practice. Simple … [Read more...]

Latin, meaning A simple recommendation does not bind. … [Read more...]

Lat. Simply; without ceremony; in a summary manner. Directly; immediately; as distinguished from inferentially or indirectly. By itself; by its own force; per te. … [Read more...]

In the civil law. That kind of wood which was kept for the purpose of being cut In English law. Under wood; coppice wood. 2 Inst 642; Cowell. All small wood and under timber, and likewise timber when cut down, under twenty years' growth; titheable wood. 3 Salk. 347. … [Read more...]

Lat. Together with. In actions of tort and in prosecutions, where several persons united in committing the act complained of, some of whom are known and others not it is usual to allege in the declaration or indictment that the persons therein named did the injury in question, "together with (simul cum) other persons unknown." … [Read more...]