The sitting or standing on any place; the seat or situation of a capital messuage, or the ground whereon it stands.1 Jacob. … [Read more...] about SCITE, OR SITE
SCITE, OR SITE
SCITE
The setting or standing of may place. The seat or situation of a capital message, or the ground on which it Stood. Jacob, L. D. h. t. … [Read more...] about SCITE
SCISSIO
Lat. In old English law. A cutting. Scissio auricularum, cropping of the ears. An old punishment Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38, I 10. … [Read more...] about SCISSIO
SCIREWYTE
In old English law. A tax or prestation paid to the sheriff for holdingg the assizes or county courts. Cowell. … [Read more...] about SCIREWYTE
SCIRE FIERI INQUIRY
Eng. law. The name of a writ, the history of the origin of which is as follows: when on an execution de bonis testatoris against an executor the sheriff returned nulla bona and also a devastavit, a fieri facias, de bonis propriis, might formerly have been issued against the executor, without a previous inquisition finding a devastavit and a scire facias. But the most usual … [Read more...] about SCIRE FIERI INQUIRY