STAND

To abide; to submit to; as “to stand a trial.” To remain as a thing is; to remain in force. Pleadings demurred to and held good are allowed to stand. Standing aside jurors. A practice by which, on the drawing of a jury for a criminal trial, the prosecuting officer puts aside a juror, provisionally, until the panel is exhausted, without disclosing his reasons, instead of being required to challenge him and show cause. The statute 33 Edw. I. deprived the crown of the power to challenge jurors without showing cause, and the practice of standing aside jurors was adopted, in England, as a method of evading its provisions. A similar practice is in use in Pennsylvania. But in Missouri, it is said that the words “stand aside” are the usual formula, used in impaneling a jury, for rejecting a juror. State v. Hultz, 106 Mo. 41, 16 S. W. 94a Standing by is used in law as implying knowledge, under such circumstances as rendered it the duty of the possessor to communicate it; and it is such knowledge, and not they mere fact of “standing by,” that lays the foundation of responsibility. The phrase does not import an actual presence, “but implies knowledge under such circumstances as to render it the duty of the possessor to communicate it. Standing mute. A prisoner, arraigned for treason or felony, was said to “stand mute,” when he refused to plead, or answered foreign to the purpose, or, after a plea of not guilty, would not put himself upon the country. Standing orders are rules and forms regulating the procedure of the two houses of parliament, each having its own. They are of equal force in every parliament, except so far as they are altered or suspended from time to time. Cox, Inst. 136; May, Pari. Pr. 185. Standing seised to uses. A covenant to stand seised to uses is one by which the owner of an estate covenants to hold the same to the use of another person, usually a relative, and usually in consideration of blood or marriage. It is a species of conveyance depending for its effect on the statute of uses.