Lat. A species of feigned disease, In which disease is actually present but where the symptoms are falsely aggravated, and greater sickness is pretended than really exists. Beck, Med. Jur. 3. … [Read more...]

In English law. The signature or subscription of the king is termed his "sign-manual." There is this difference between what the sovereign does under the sign manual and what he or she does under the great seal, viz., that the former la' done as a personal act of the sovereign; the latter as an act of state. Brown. … [Read more...]

Lat. In the Roman and civil law. A sign; a mark; a seal. The seal of an Instrument. Calvin. A species of proof. By "signa" were meant those species of indicia which come more immediately under the cognizance of the senses; such as stains of blood on the person of the accused Best, Pres. 13, note /. In Saxon law. The sign of a cross prefixed as a sign of assent and approbation … [Read more...]

Lat. In Roman law. Marks or signs of abbreviation used in writing. Cod. 1, 17, 11, 13. … [Read more...]

Latin: In old English law. A seal; originally and properly a seal impressed upon wax. Sigillum est oera impressa, quia oera sine impressione non est sigillnm. A seal is a piece of wax impressed, because wax without an impression is not a seaL 3 Inst. 169. … [Read more...]