SINGLE BILL

contracts. A writing by which one person or more, promises to another or others, to pay him or them a sum of money at a time therein specified, without any condition. It is usually under seal; and when so, it is sometimes, if not commonly, called a bill obligatory. 2. It differs from a promissory note in this, that the latter is always payable to order; and from a bond, because … [Read more...] about SINGLE BILL

Unitary; detached; individual; affecting only one person; containing only one part, article, condition, or covenant. By itself, unconnected. 2. A single bill is one without any condition, and does not depend upon any future event to give it validity. As to single "Adultery," "Bill," "Bond," "Combat" "Demise," "Entry," "Escheat" and "Original," see those titles. … [Read more...] about SINGLE

In ecclesiastical law. When a rector of a parish neither resides nor performs duty at his benefice, but has a vicar under him. endowed and charged with the cure thereof, this is termed a "sinecure." Brown. An ecclesiastical benefice without cure of souls. In popular usage, the term denotes an office which yields a revenue to the incumbent, but makes little or no demand upon … [Read more...] about SINECURE

Latin translating to without which, nothing meaning that without this essential ingredient, nothing would occur or there is nothing. This is also referred to as but for... … [Read more...] about SINE QUA NON

Without day. A judgment for a defendant in many cases is quod eat sine die, that he may go without day. While the cause is pending and undeter-mined, it may be continued from term to term by dies datus. When the court or other body rise at the end of a session or term they adjourn sine die. … [Read more...] about SINE DIE