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Service1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
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Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
Feudal
A term applied to whatever concerned a feud; as feudal law: feudal rights.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Tenant
Estates. One who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of title, either in fee, for life, for years, or at will
Lord
In England, this is a title of honor. In the U. S. no such titles are allowed
Reason
By reason is usually understood that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong; and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Execute
To complete; to sign; to carry out according to its terms.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
Capias
Practice. This word, the signification of which is " that you take," is applicable to many heads of practice. Several writs and processes, commanding the sheriff to take the person of the defendant, are known by the name of capias.
Arrest
To stop; to seize; to deprive one of his liberty by virtue of legal authority.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
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Servants
(Negro or mulatto) Pennsylvania. By the fourth section of the act for the gradual abolition of slavery, passed the first day of March, 1780, it is "provided that every negro or mulatto child, born within this state after the passing of this act, shall be by virtue of this act the servant of such person, or his assigns who would in such case have been entitled to the service of such child, until such child attain unto the age of twenty-eight years, in the manner and on the conditions, whereon servants bound by indenture for four years are or may be retained or holden; and shall be liable to like correction and punishment, and entitled to like relief, in case he be evilly treated by his master, and to like freedom dues and privileges, as servants bound by indenture for four years are entitled, unless the person to whom such services belong shall abandon his claim to the same;
Served time releases
Inmates will be released from custody when they have completed their sentence.ÿ A ?Served Time? release will occur on the final day of the served sentence.ÿ Each facility has a specific process for served time releases, and release times vary accordingly.
Servi
This name was given by the Romans to their slaves; they were so called from servare, to preserve, from the ancient practice of the generals of the army, who were accustomed to sell their captives, and preserved them rather than kill them: servi autem ex eo appellati sunt, quod imperatores captivos vendere, ac per hoc servare, nec occidere solent.
Service centers
Four offices established to handle the filing, data entry, and adjudication of certain applications for immigration services and benefits. The applications are mailed to INS Service Centers -- Service Centers are not staffed to receive walk-in applications or questions.
Service contract
An agreement between a company and its directors or senior managers setting out their terms of service, in particular the minimum term and notice period. It differs from the normal conditions of employment in that it is more detailed and includes terms which are usually the subject of more arms length negotiation such as restrictive covenants. The principal feature of a service contract is the length of the term as dismissal can give the employee a damages claim based on the value of his salary and benefits, or the period up to the time when the Agreement could have been terminated.
Service of process
The act of presenting the complaint or summons to the defendant or respondent.
Servient
Civil law. A term applied to an estate or tenement by which a servitude is due to another estate or tenement.
Servitude
Civil law. A term which indicates the subjection of one person to another person, or of a person to a thing, or of a thing to a person, or of a thing to a thing.
Servitudes
Personal. Those by which the property of a subject, in Scotland, is burdened in favor, not of a tenement, but of a person.
Servitudes, natural
Civil law. Those servitudes which arise in consequence of the nature of the soil.
Servitus
1) Civil law. A service or servitude; a burden imposed by law, or the agreement of parties upon certain persons, for the benefit of others; or upon one estate for the advantage of another, or for the benefit of another person than the owner. 2) Servitude; slavery; a state of bondage. "Servitus autem, est constitutio," ,"qua quis dominio alieno contra naturam subjicitur." Servitude is a disposition of the law of nations, by which, against common right, one man has been subjected to the dominion of another.
Servitus luminum
Civil law. The name of a servitude by which an obligation is imposed on the owner of a house to allow windows or lights to be put in his wall by the owner of the adjoining house.
Servitus stillicldii
Civil law. The name of a servitude which obliges the owner of an estate to receive, or his right to turn aside, the droppings or stream from his neighbor's house.
Servitus tigni immittendi
Civil law. The name of a servitude which consists in requiring him who owes it, to permit his neighbor to place his joists on his wall. It differs from the servitude Oneris ferendi. in this, that in the former the owner of the servient building is bound to repair and rebuild the wall; whereas, in the latter he is not.
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Sergeant at arms
An officer appointed by a legislative body, whose duties are to enforce the orders given by such bodies, generally under the warrant of its presiding officer.
Seriatim
In a series, severally; as, the judges delivered their opinions seriatim.
Serjeanty
English law. A species of service which cannot be due or performed from a tenant to any lord but the king; and is either grand or petit serjeanty.
Servants
(Negro or mulatto) Pennsylvania. By the fourth section of the act for the gradual abolition of slavery, passed the first day of March, 1780, it is "provided that every negro or mulatto child, born within this state after the passing of this act, shall be by virtue of this act the servant of such person, or his assigns who would in such case have been entitled to the service of such child, until such child attain unto the age of twenty-eight years, in the manner and on the conditions, whereon servants bound by indenture for four years are or may be retained or holden; and shall be liable to like correction and punishment, and entitled to like relief, in case he be evilly treated by his master, and to like freedom dues and privileges, as servants bound by indenture for four years are entitled, unless the person to whom such services belong shall abandon his claim to the same;
Servi
This name was given by the Romans to their slaves; they were so called from servare, to preserve, from the ancient practice of the generals of the army, who were accustomed to sell their captives, and preserved them rather than kill them: servi autem ex eo appellati sunt, quod imperatores captivos vendere, ac per hoc servare, nec occidere solent.
Service
Service centers
Four offices established to handle the filing, data entry, and adjudication of certain applications for immigration services and benefits. The applications are mailed to INS Service Centers -- Service Centers are not staffed to receive walk-in applications or questions.
Service contract
An agreement between a company and its directors or senior managers setting out their terms of service, in particular the minimum term and notice period. It differs from the normal conditions of employment in that it is more detailed and includes terms which are usually the subject of more arms length negotiation such as restrictive covenants. The principal feature of a service contract is the length of the term as dismissal can give the employee a damages claim based on the value of his salary and benefits, or the period up to the time when the Agreement could have been terminated.
Service of process
The act of presenting the complaint or summons to the defendant or respondent.
Servient
Civil law. A term applied to an estate or tenement by which a servitude is due to another estate or tenement.
Servitude
Civil law. A term which indicates the subjection of one person to another person, or of a person to a thing, or of a thing to a person, or of a thing to a thing.
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Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
Feudal
A term applied to whatever concerned a feud; as feudal law: feudal rights.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Tenant
Estates. One who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of title, either in fee, for life, for years, or at will
Lord
In England, this is a title of honor. In the U. S. no such titles are allowed
Reason
By reason is usually understood that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong; and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Execute
To complete; to sign; to carry out according to its terms.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
Capias
Practice. This word, the signification of which is " that you take," is applicable to many heads of practice. Several writs and processes, commanding the sheriff to take the person of the defendant, are known by the name of capias.
Arrest
To stop; to seize; to deprive one of his liberty by virtue of legal authority.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
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Servants
(Negro or mulatto) Pennsylvania. By the fourth section of the act for the gradual abolition of slavery, passed the first day of March, 1780, it is "provided that every negro or mulatto child, born within this state after the passing of this act, shall be by virtue of this act the servant of such person, or his assigns who would in such case have been entitled to the service of such child, until such child attain unto the age of twenty-eight years, in the manner and on the conditions, whereon servants bound by indenture for four years are or may be retained or holden; and shall be liable to like correction and punishment, and entitled to like relief, in case he be evilly treated by his master, and to like freedom dues and privileges, as servants bound by indenture for four years are entitled, unless the person to whom such services belong shall abandon his claim to the same;
Served time releases
Inmates will be released from custody when they have completed their sentence.ÿ A ?Served Time? release will occur on the final day of the served sentence.ÿ Each facility has a specific process for served time releases, and release times vary accordingly.
Servi
This name was given by the Romans to their slaves; they were so called from servare, to preserve, from the ancient practice of the generals of the army, who were accustomed to sell their captives, and preserved them rather than kill them: servi autem ex eo appellati sunt, quod imperatores captivos vendere, ac per hoc servare, nec occidere solent.
Service centers
Four offices established to handle the filing, data entry, and adjudication of certain applications for immigration services and benefits. The applications are mailed to INS Service Centers -- Service Centers are not staffed to receive walk-in applications or questions.
Service contract
An agreement between a company and its directors or senior managers setting out their terms of service, in particular the minimum term and notice period. It differs from the normal conditions of employment in that it is more detailed and includes terms which are usually the subject of more arms length negotiation such as restrictive covenants. The principal feature of a service contract is the length of the term as dismissal can give the employee a damages claim based on the value of his salary and benefits, or the period up to the time when the Agreement could have been terminated.
Service of process
The act of presenting the complaint or summons to the defendant or respondent.
Servient
Civil law. A term applied to an estate or tenement by which a servitude is due to another estate or tenement.
Servitude
Civil law. A term which indicates the subjection of one person to another person, or of a person to a thing, or of a thing to a person, or of a thing to a thing.
Servitudes
Personal. Those by which the property of a subject, in Scotland, is burdened in favor, not of a tenement, but of a person.
Servitudes, natural
Civil law. Those servitudes which arise in consequence of the nature of the soil.
Servitus
1) Civil law. A service or servitude; a burden imposed by law, or the agreement of parties upon certain persons, for the benefit of others; or upon one estate for the advantage of another, or for the benefit of another person than the owner. 2) Servitude; slavery; a state of bondage. "Servitus autem, est constitutio," ,"qua quis dominio alieno contra naturam subjicitur." Servitude is a disposition of the law of nations, by which, against common right, one man has been subjected to the dominion of another.
Servitus luminum
Civil law. The name of a servitude by which an obligation is imposed on the owner of a house to allow windows or lights to be put in his wall by the owner of the adjoining house.
Servitus stillicldii
Civil law. The name of a servitude which obliges the owner of an estate to receive, or his right to turn aside, the droppings or stream from his neighbor's house.
Servitus tigni immittendi
Civil law. The name of a servitude which consists in requiring him who owes it, to permit his neighbor to place his joists on his wall. It differs from the servitude Oneris ferendi. in this, that in the former the owner of the servient building is bound to repair and rebuild the wall; whereas, in the latter he is not.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Sergeant at arms
An officer appointed by a legislative body, whose duties are to enforce the orders given by such bodies, generally under the warrant of its presiding officer.
Seriatim
In a series, severally; as, the judges delivered their opinions seriatim.
Serjeanty
English law. A species of service which cannot be due or performed from a tenant to any lord but the king; and is either grand or petit serjeanty.
Servants
(Negro or mulatto) Pennsylvania. By the fourth section of the act for the gradual abolition of slavery, passed the first day of March, 1780, it is "provided that every negro or mulatto child, born within this state after the passing of this act, shall be by virtue of this act the servant of such person, or his assigns who would in such case have been entitled to the service of such child, until such child attain unto the age of twenty-eight years, in the manner and on the conditions, whereon servants bound by indenture for four years are or may be retained or holden; and shall be liable to like correction and punishment, and entitled to like relief, in case he be evilly treated by his master, and to like freedom dues and privileges, as servants bound by indenture for four years are entitled, unless the person to whom such services belong shall abandon his claim to the same;
Servi
This name was given by the Romans to their slaves; they were so called from servare, to preserve, from the ancient practice of the generals of the army, who were accustomed to sell their captives, and preserved them rather than kill them: servi autem ex eo appellati sunt, quod imperatores captivos vendere, ac per hoc servare, nec occidere solent.
Service
Service centers
Four offices established to handle the filing, data entry, and adjudication of certain applications for immigration services and benefits. The applications are mailed to INS Service Centers -- Service Centers are not staffed to receive walk-in applications or questions.
Service contract
An agreement between a company and its directors or senior managers setting out their terms of service, in particular the minimum term and notice period. It differs from the normal conditions of employment in that it is more detailed and includes terms which are usually the subject of more arms length negotiation such as restrictive covenants. The principal feature of a service contract is the length of the term as dismissal can give the employee a damages claim based on the value of his salary and benefits, or the period up to the time when the Agreement could have been terminated.
Service of process
The act of presenting the complaint or summons to the defendant or respondent.
Servient
Civil law. A term applied to an estate or tenement by which a servitude is due to another estate or tenement.
Servitude
Civil law. A term which indicates the subjection of one person to another person, or of a person to a thing, or of a thing to a person, or of a thing to a thing.
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