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Sewer
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SewerProperly a trench artificially made for the purpose of carrying water into the sea, river, or some other place of reception. Public sewers are, in general, made at the public expense.
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Water
1) That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks are composed. 2) A pool of water, or a stream or water course, is considered as part of the land, hence a pool of twenty acres, would pass by the grant of twenty acres of land, without mentioning the water. 3) Like land, water is distinguishable into different parts, as the sea, rivers, docks, canals, ponds and sewers, and to these may be added at water course
Sea
The ocean; the great mass of waters which surrounds the land, and which probably extends from pole to pole, covering nearly three quarters of the globe. Waters within the ebb and flow of the tide, are to be considered the sea.
River
A natural collection of waters, arising from springs or fountains, which flow in a bed or canal of considerable width and length, towards the sea.
Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Are
A French measure of surface. This is a square, the sides of which are of the length of ten metres. The are is equal to 1076.441 square feet.
General
1) A principal officer, particularly in the army. 2) Something opposed to special; as, a general verdict, the general issue, which expressions are used in contradistinction to special verdict, special issue. 3) Principal, as the general post office. 4) Not select, as a general ship. 5) Not particular, as a general custom. 5) Not limited, as general jurisdiction. 7) This word is sometimes annexed or prefixed to other words to express or limit the extent of their signification; as Attorney General, Solicitor General, the General Assembly.
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Sewer service
Many consumer frauds rely on litigation to win judgments to collect the proceeds of the fraud. These organizations limit the ability of the victim to defend against this litigation by not informing them of the suit (literally dropping the Subpoena "down the sewer") and filing false Affidavits in court that the litigation papers had been properly served.
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Severability
The understanding that one clause in a contract is independent of the others.
Severability clause
A clause in a contract providing that even if one clause is found to be illegal or invalid by a court, the others are still operative and must be complied with.
Several
A state of separation or partition. A several agreement or cove-nant, is one entered into by two or more persons separately, each binding himself for the whole; a several action is one in which two or more persons are separately charged; a several inheritance, is one conveyed so as to descend, or come to two persons separately by moieties. Several is usually opposed to joint.
Severalty
Title to an estate. An estate in severalty is one which is held by the tenant in his own right only, without any other being joined or connected with him in point of interest, during the continuance of his estate.
Severance
1) Pleading. When an action is brought in the name of several plain-tiffs, in which the plaintiffs must of necessity join, aud one or more of the persons so named do not appear, or make default after appearance, the other may have judgment of severance, or, as it is technically called, judgment ad sequendum solum. 2) Estates. The act by which any one of the unities of a joint tenancy is effected, is so called; because the estate is no longer a joint tenancy, but is severed.
Sewer
Sewer service
Many consumer frauds rely on litigation to win judgments to collect the proceeds of the fraud. These organizations limit the ability of the victim to defend against this litigation by not informing them of the suit (literally dropping the Subpoena "down the sewer") and filing false Affidavits in court that the litigation papers had been properly served.
Sex
The physical difference between male and female in animals.
Shadowing
Following the suspect or target of Surveillance from place to place to observe activities without being detected.
Sham plea
One entered for the mere purpose of delay; it must be of a matter which the pleader knows to be false; as judgment recovered, that is, that judgment has already been recovered by the plaintiff for the same cause of action.
Share
A portion of anything. Sometimes shares are equal, at other times they are unequal.
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Water
1) That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks are composed. 2) A pool of water, or a stream or water course, is considered as part of the land, hence a pool of twenty acres, would pass by the grant of twenty acres of land, without mentioning the water. 3) Like land, water is distinguishable into different parts, as the sea, rivers, docks, canals, ponds and sewers, and to these may be added at water course
Sea
The ocean; the great mass of waters which surrounds the land, and which probably extends from pole to pole, covering nearly three quarters of the globe. Waters within the ebb and flow of the tide, are to be considered the sea.
River
A natural collection of waters, arising from springs or fountains, which flow in a bed or canal of considerable width and length, towards the sea.
Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Are
A French measure of surface. This is a square, the sides of which are of the length of ten metres. The are is equal to 1076.441 square feet.
General
1) A principal officer, particularly in the army. 2) Something opposed to special; as, a general verdict, the general issue, which expressions are used in contradistinction to special verdict, special issue. 3) Principal, as the general post office. 4) Not select, as a general ship. 5) Not particular, as a general custom. 5) Not limited, as general jurisdiction. 7) This word is sometimes annexed or prefixed to other words to express or limit the extent of their signification; as Attorney General, Solicitor General, the General Assembly.
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Sewer service
Many consumer frauds rely on litigation to win judgments to collect the proceeds of the fraud. These organizations limit the ability of the victim to defend against this litigation by not informing them of the suit (literally dropping the Subpoena "down the sewer") and filing false Affidavits in court that the litigation papers had been properly served.
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Severability
The understanding that one clause in a contract is independent of the others.
Severability clause
A clause in a contract providing that even if one clause is found to be illegal or invalid by a court, the others are still operative and must be complied with.
Several
A state of separation or partition. A several agreement or cove-nant, is one entered into by two or more persons separately, each binding himself for the whole; a several action is one in which two or more persons are separately charged; a several inheritance, is one conveyed so as to descend, or come to two persons separately by moieties. Several is usually opposed to joint.
Severalty
Title to an estate. An estate in severalty is one which is held by the tenant in his own right only, without any other being joined or connected with him in point of interest, during the continuance of his estate.
Severance
1) Pleading. When an action is brought in the name of several plain-tiffs, in which the plaintiffs must of necessity join, aud one or more of the persons so named do not appear, or make default after appearance, the other may have judgment of severance, or, as it is technically called, judgment ad sequendum solum. 2) Estates. The act by which any one of the unities of a joint tenancy is effected, is so called; because the estate is no longer a joint tenancy, but is severed.
Sewer
Sewer service
Many consumer frauds rely on litigation to win judgments to collect the proceeds of the fraud. These organizations limit the ability of the victim to defend against this litigation by not informing them of the suit (literally dropping the Subpoena "down the sewer") and filing false Affidavits in court that the litigation papers had been properly served.
Sex
The physical difference between male and female in animals.
Shadowing
Following the suspect or target of Surveillance from place to place to observe activities without being detected.
Sham plea
One entered for the mere purpose of delay; it must be of a matter which the pleader knows to be false; as judgment recovered, that is, that judgment has already been recovered by the plaintiff for the same cause of action.
Share
A portion of anything. Sometimes shares are equal, at other times they are unequal.
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