SERVANT

A servant is one who is employed to render personal services to his employer, otherwise than in the pursuit of an Independent calling, and who in such service remains entirely under the control and direction of the latter, who hi called his master. Civ. Code Cal. … [Read more...] about SERVANT

in feudal law, was where a tenant, besides payment of a certain rent, found one or more workmen for his lord's service. Tomlins. Servanda est eonsnetndo loei nbi eansa agitur. The custom of the place where the action hi brought is to be observed. 0e> couche v. Savetier, 3 Johns. Ch, (N. Y.) 190, 210, 8 Am. Dec. 478. … [Read more...] about SERVAGE

Notched, on the edge; cut In notches like the teeth of a saw. This was anciently the method of trimming the top or edge of a deed of indenture. See INDENT … [Read more...] about SERRATED

A test for insanity by means of the breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood of the suspected person on the injection of the venom of cobras or other serpents; recently employed in judicial proceedings la some European countries and in Japan. … [Read more...] about SERPENT-VENOM REACTION

In old English law. Oath; an oath. Sermo index animi. 5 Coke, 118. 'Speech hi an Index of the mind. Sermo relatns ad personam intelligi debet de eonditiono persona). Language which la referred to a person ought to be understood of the condition of the person. 4 Coke, 16. Sermones semper m aceipiendi sunt se-enndnm subjeotam materlam, et conditionem personaram. 4 Coke, 14. … [Read more...] about SERMENT