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A persona who acts as a parent to a child in place of a child's actual parent. … [Read more...]

Fr. On; upon; over. In the titles of real actions "sur" was used to point out what the writ was founded upon. Thna, a real action brought by the owner of a reversion or seigniory, in certain cases where his tenant repudiated his tenure, was called "a writ of right sur disclaimer." So, a writ of entry sur disseisin was a real action to recover the possession of land from a … [Read more...]

(A) pleading. A superfluous and useless statement of matter wholly foreign and impertinent to the cause. 2. In general surplusagium non nocet, according to the maxim utile per inutile non vitiatur; therefore if a man in his declaration, plea, make mention of a thing which need, not be stated, but the matter set forth is grammatically right, and perfectly sensible, no advantage … [Read more...]

The name of a writ issued in favor of the heir of the wife, where the husband alienated the wife's lands, during the coverture, and afterwards they were divorced and she died, to recover the lands from the alienee. Vide Cui ante divortium. … [Read more...]