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SUPERSEDEAS

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Latin: In practice. A writ ordering the suspension or superseding of another writ previously Issued. It directs the ofllcer to whom it is issued to refrain from executing or acting under another writ which is in his hands or may come to him. By a conventional extension of the term it has come to be used as a designation of the effect of any proceeding or act in a cause which, … [Read more...]

SUPERSEDING CAUSE

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An action or event that occurs after an original act or event occurs that sets a series of events into motion which affects a series of events so significantly that the end result is no longer connected with the original direct cause. See intervening cause. … [Read more...]

SUPERINDUCTIO

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Lat. In the civil law. A species of obliteration. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1. … [Read more...]

SUPERSTITIOUS USE

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English law. When lands, tenements, rents, goods or chattels are given, secured or appointed for and toward the maintenance of a priest or chaplain to say mass; for the maintenance of a priest, or other man, to pray for the soul of any dead man, in such a church or elsewhere; to have and maintain perpetual obits, lamps, torches, to be used at certain times to help to save the … [Read more...]

SUPERINSTITUTION

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The institution of one in an office to which another has been previously instituted; as where A. is admitted and instituted to a benefice upon one title, and B. is admitted and Instituted on the title or presentment of another. 2 Cro. Eliz. 463. A church being full by institution, if a second institution is granted to the same church this is a superlnstltution. Wharton. … [Read more...]

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