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An immediate male descendant;. the, correlative of "father." Technically a word of purchase, unless explained. Its meaning may be extended by construction to include more remote descendants, such as a grandchild, and also to include an illegitimate male child, though the presumption is against this. See Flora v. Anderson … [Read more...] about SON

In ecclesiastical law, an officer of the ecclesiastical courts whose duty was to serve citations or process. … [Read more...] about SOMPNOUR

Sleep-walking. Whether this condition is anything more than a cooperation of the voluntary muscles with the thoughts which occupy the mind during sleep is not settled by physiologists. Wharton. … [Read more...] about SOMNAMBULISM

In French law. A demand served by a huissier, by which one Party calls upon another to do or not to do a certain thing. This document has for its object to establish that upon a certain date the demand was made. Arg. FT. Merc. Law, 574. … [Read more...] about SOMMATION

A celebrated decision of the English king's bench, in 1771, (20 How. St. Tr. 1,) that slavery no longer existed in England in any form, and could not for the future exist on English soil, and that any person brought into England as a slave could not be thence removed except by the legal means applicable in the case of any free born person. … [Read more...] about SOMERSETT’S CASE