SIERVO

Span. In Spanish law. A slave. Las Partidas, pt. 4, tit. 21, 1. 1. … [Read more...] about SIERVO

An obsolete word, formerly used for scion, which figuratively signified a person who descended from another. The sien, says Lord Coke, takes all his nourishment from the stocke, and yet it produceth his own fruit. … [Read more...] about SIENS

An obsolete form of the word "scion," meaning offspring or descendant Co. Litt 123o. … [Read more...] about SIEN

A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road. See Kohlhof v. Chicago, 102 111. 249, 61 N. E. 446, 85 Am. St. Rep. 335; Challiss v. Parker, 11 Kan. 391; State v. Berdetta, 73 Ind. 185, 38 Am. Rep. 117; Pequignot v. Detroit (C. C.) 16 Fed. 212. … [Read more...] about SIDEWALK

In ecclesiastical law. These were originally persons whom, in the ancient episcopal synods, the bishops were wont to summon out of each parish to give information of the disorders of the clergy and people, and to report heretics. In process of time they became standing officers, under the title of "synodsmen," "sidesmen," or "questmen." The whole of their duties seems now to … [Read more...] about SIDESMEN