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SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE

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A trustee who succeeds an original trustee has died or become incapacitated. … [Read more...]

SUCKEN, SUCHEN

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In Scotch law. The whole lands astricted to a mill; that is, the lands of which the tenants are obliged to send their grain to that mill. Bell. … [Read more...]

SUFFRAGAN

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Bishops who In former times were appointed to supply the place of others during their absence on embassies or other business were so termed. They were consecrated as other bishops were, and were' anciently called "chore piscopi" or "bishops of the county," in contradistinction to the regular bishops of the city or see. The practice of creating suffragan bishops, after having … [Read more...]

SUDDEN HEAT OF PASSION

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In the common law definition of manslaughter, this phrase means an access of rage or anger, suddenly arising from a contemporary provocation. It means that the provocation must arise at the time of the killing, and that the passion is not the result of a former provocation, and the act must be directly caused by the passion arising out of the provocation at the time of the … [Read more...]

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