In old English law. An annual rent paid to cathedral churches; another name for the pentecostals or customary oblations offered by the dispersed inhabitants within a diocese, when they made their processions to the mother cathedral church. Cowell. … [Read more...] about SMOKE-FARTHINGS
SMOKE-FARTHINGS
SMART-MONEY
Vindictive or exemplary damages. See Brewer v. Jacobs (C. C.) 22 Fed. 224; Springer v. Somers Fuel Co., 196 Pa. 156, 46 Ati. 370; Day v. Woodworth, 13 How. 371, 14 L. Ed. 181; Murphy v. Hobbs, 7 Colo. 541, 5 Pac. 119, 49 Am. Rep. 366. … [Read more...] about SMART-MONEY
SMALL TITHES
All personal and mixed tithes, and also hops, flax, saffrons, potatoes, and sometimes, by custom, wood. Otherwise called "privy tithes." 2 Steph. Comm. 726. … [Read more...] about SMALL TITHES
SMALL ENTITY
A term used by the U.S Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) which refers to entities entitled to a fee discount: a for-profit company with 500 or fewer employees, a nonprofit organization or an independent person who is an inventor. … [Read more...] about SMALL ENTITY
SMALL DEBTS COURTS
The several county courts established by St 9 A 10 Vict c 96, for the purpose of bringing justice home to every man's door. … [Read more...] about SMALL DEBTS COURTS