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STOPPAGE

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In the civil law. Compensation or set-off. … [Read more...]

STRATOR

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In old English law. A surveyor of the highways … [Read more...]

STOPPAGE IN TRANSITU

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contracts. This is the name of that act of a vendor of goods, upon a credit, who, on learning that the buyer has failed, resumes the possession of the goods, while they are in the hands of a carrier or middle-man, in their transit to the buyer, and before they get, into his actual possession. 2. The subject will be considered with reference to, 1. The person who has a right to … [Read more...]

STORE

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Storing is the keeping merchandise for safe custody, to be delivered in the same condition as when received, where the safe-keeping is the principal object of deposit and not the consumption or sale. O'Nlel v. BufTalo F. Ins. Co., 3 N. Y. 122; Hynds v. Schenectady County Mut Ins. Co., 16 Barb, (N. Y.) 119. Public store. A government warehouse, maintained for certain … [Read more...]

STORES

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the victuals and provisions collected together for the subsistence of a ship's company, of a camp, and the like. … [Read more...]

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