A person (or sometimes the court) that acts on behalf or instead (in place of) another person or party, e.g. a surrogate adoption. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition In English law. One that is substituted or appointed in the room of another, as by a bishop, chancellor, judge etc.; especially an officer appointed to dispense licenses to marry without banns. 2 Steph. … [Read more...]

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Lat. Last; the last. Supremus est quem nemo sequitar. He is last whom no one follows. Dig. 50,16, 92. … [Read more...]

That which is left from a fund which has been appropriated for a particular purpose; the remainder of a thing; the overplus the residue. 2. The following is an example of a surplus; if a thing be put in pledge as a security to pay one hundred dollars, and it be afterwards sold for one hundred and fifty dollars, the fifty dollars will be the surplus. That which remains of a fund … [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...]