The constructive delivery of the subject matter of a sale, where It is cumbersome or inaccessible, by the actual delivery of some article which la conventionally accepted as the symbol or representative of it, or which renders access to it possible, or which is evidence of the purchaser's title to it. … [Read more...]
SYMBOLUM ANIMAE
Latin: A mortuary, or soul-scot … [Read more...]
SYMOND’S INN
Formerly an inn of chancery. … [Read more...]
SWINDLING
Cheating and defrauding grossly with deliberate artifice. Wyatt v. Ayres, 2 Port (Ala.) 157; Forrest v. Hanson, 9 Fed. Cas. 456; Thorpe v. State, 40 Tex. Cr. R. 346, 50 S. W. 383; Chase v. Whitlock, 3 Hill (N. Y.) 140; Stevenson v. Hayden, 2 Mass. 408. By the statute, "swindling" is defined to be the acquisition of personal or movable property, money, or instrument of writing … [Read more...]
SYNALLAGMATIC CONTRACT
civil law. A synallagmatic or bilateral contract is one by which each of the contracting parties binds himself to the other; such are the contracts of sale, hiring Poth. Ob. n. 9. Vide Contract. … [Read more...]