SOON

If there is no time specified for the performance of an act or if it is specified that it is to be performed soon, the law implies that it is to be performed within o a reasonable time. Sanford v. Shephard, 14 Kan. 232. … [Read more...] about SOON

Latin: In the civil law. Hurtful; Injurious; hindering; excusing or justifying delay. Morbus sonticus is any illness pf so serious a nature as to prevent a defendant from appearing in court and to give him a valid excuse. Calyin. … [Read more...] about SONTICUS

A tax of forty shillings anciently laid upon every knight's fee. Cowell; … [Read more...] about SONTAGE

in Latin called gener. The husband of one's daughter. … [Read more...] about SON-IN-LAW

pleading. His own first assault. A form of a plea to justify an assault and battery, by which the defendant asserts that the plaintiff committed an assault upon him, and the defendant merely defended himself. 2. When the plea is supported by evidence, it is a sufficient justification, unless the retaliation by the defendant were excessive, and bore no proportion to the … [Read more...] about SON ASSAULT DEMESNE