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In English law. A tax, rate, or assessment. … [Read more...] about SESS

Serving; subject to a service or servitude. A servient estate is one which is burdened with a servitude. Servient tenement. An estate in respect of which a service is owing, as the dominant tenement is that to which the service is due. Servile est expilationis crimen; sola innocentia libera. 2 Inst. 573. The crime of theft la slavish; innocence alone is free. Sorvitia … [Read more...] about SERVIENT

Lat. In old English law. A Sitting; a session. Sessio parliamenti, the sitting of parliament. Cowell. … [Read more...] about SESSIO

See also servient tenement. Land rights subject to an easement. … [Read more...] about SERVIENT ESTATE

The sitting of a court, legislature, council, commission, etc., for the transaction of its proper business. Hence, the period of time, within any one day, during which such body is assembled in form, and engaged in the transaction of business, or, in a more extended sense, the whole space of time from its first assembling to its prorogation or adjournment sine die. Synonyms. … [Read more...] about SESSION