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...]
SYMBOLIC DELIVERY
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...]
SWAINMOTE COURT
Engl. law. The court within the forest to which all the freeholders owe suit and service. … [Read more...]