A head-note; a note prefixed to the report of an adjudged case, containing an epitome or brief statement of the rulings of the court upon the point or points decided in the case. See Koonee v. DoolIt-tie, 48 W. Va. 592, 37 S. B. 645, … [Read more...] about SYLLABUS
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SYLLOGISM
In logic. The full logical form of a single argument. It consists of three propositions, (two premises and the conclusion,) and these contain three terms, of which the two occurring in the conclusion ere brought together in the premises by being referred to a common class. … [Read more...] about SYLLOGISM
SYLVA CAEDUA
Lat. In ecclesiastical law. Wood of any kind which was kept on purpose to be cut, and which, being cut, grew again from the stump or root. Lynd. Prov. 190; 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 90. … [Read more...] about SYLVA CAEDUA
SYMBO
A sign; a token; a representation of one thing by another. 2. A symbolical delivery is equivalent, in many cases, in its legal effects, to actual delivery; as, for example, the delivery of the keys of a warehouse in which goods are deposited, is a delivery sufficient to transfer the property. … [Read more...] about SYMBO
SYMBOLAEOGRAPHY
The art or cunning rightly to form and make written instruments. It is either judicial or extrajudicial; the latter being wholly occupied with such Instruments as concern matters not yet judicially in controversy, such as instruments of agreements or contracts, and testaments or last wills. Wharton. … [Read more...] about SYMBOLAEOGRAPHY