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Fr. These are. bi French law, the easements of English law. Brown. … [Read more...] about SERVICES FONCIERS

A test for insanity by means of the breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood of the suspected person on the injection of the venom of cobras or other serpents; recently employed in judicial proceedings la some European countries and in Japan. … [Read more...] about SERPENT-VENOM REACTION

In Spanish law. A servitude. The right and use which one man has in the buildings and estates of another, to use them for the benefit of his own. Las Partidas, 3, 31, 1. … [Read more...] about SERVIDUMBRE

In English ecclesiastical practice. A process in the nature of a levari facia, commanding the bishop to enter into the rectory and parish church, and to take and sequester the same, and hold them until, of the rents, tithes, and profits thereof, and of the other ecclesiastical goods of a defendant, he have levied the plaintiff's debt 3 Bl. Comm. 418; 2 Archb. Fr. 1284. … [Read more...] about SEQUESTRARI FACIAS

Notched, on the edge; cut In notches like the teeth of a saw. This was anciently the method of trimming the top or edge of a deed of indenture. See INDENT … [Read more...] about SERRATED