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Latin meaning An interlocutory order can be revoked, a final order cannot be. … [Read more...] about SENTENTIA INTERLOCUTORIA REVOCARI POTEST DEFINITIVA NON POTEST

A lawsuit which is large and can be separated into smaller lawsuits so that one can be moved to a more appropriate court, e.g. from state to federal court. … [Read more...] about SEPERABLE CONTROVERSY

In the acts of congress relating to the removal of causes from state courts to federal courts, this phrase means a separate and distinct cause of action existing in the suit, on which a separate and distinct suit might properly have been brought and complete relief afforded as to such cause of action; or the case must be one capable of separation into parts, so that; in one of … [Read more...] about SEPARABLE CONTROVERSY

Lat. In old English law. A hedge or inclosure. The inclosure of a trench or canal. Dig. 43, 21, 4. … [Read more...] about SEPES

Separately. 2. This word is sometimes used in indictments to show that the defendants are charged separately with offences, which, without the addition of this word, would seem, from the form of the indictment, to be charged jointly; as, for example, when two persons are indicted together for perjury, and the indictment states that A and B came before a commissioner, this is … [Read more...] about SEPARALITE