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Spousal support
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Spousal supportMoney paid from one spouse to the other in one lump sum or in installments for a period of time. there are many factors considered. (see spousal support section in your state).
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Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.
Spouse
Husband or wife.
Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
Support
The right of support is an easement which one man, either by contract or prescription, enjoys, to rest the joists or timbers of his house upon the wall of an adjoining building, owned by another person.
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Spouse
Husband or wife.
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Splitting a cause of action
The bringing an action for only a part of the cause of action. This is not permitted either at law nor in equity.
Spoliation
1) English ecclesiastical law. The name of a suit sued out in the spiritual court to recover for the fruits of the church, or for the church itself. 2) Torts. Destruction of a thing by the act of a stranger; as, the erasure or alteration of a writing by the act of a stranger, is called spoliation. This has not the effect to destroy its character or legal effect.
Sponsalia
Sponsolia or stipulatio sponsolitia. A promise lawfully made between persons capable of marrying each other, that at some future time they will marry
Sponsions
International law. Agreements or engagements made by certain public officers, as generals or admirals, in time of war, either without author-ity, or by exceeding the limits of authority under which they purport to be made.
Sponsor
Civil law. He who intervenes for another voluntarily and without being requested. The engagement which he enters into is only accessory to the principal
Spousal support
Spouse
Husband or wife.
Spring
A fountain.
Springing use
Estates. One to arise on a future event, when no preceding estate is limited, and does not take effect in derogation of any preceding interest. Example: a grant is made to A in fee, to the use of B in fee, after the fourth of July; no use arises till the limited period. The use in the mean time results to the grantor, who has a determinable fee.
Spy
One who goes into a place for the purpose of ascertaining the best way of doing an injury there.
Squatter
One who settles on the lands of others without any legal author-ity; this term is applied particularly to persons who settle on the public land.
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Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.
Spouse
Husband or wife.
Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
Support
The right of support is an easement which one man, either by contract or prescription, enjoys, to rest the joists or timbers of his house upon the wall of an adjoining building, owned by another person.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Spouse
Husband or wife.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Splitting a cause of action
The bringing an action for only a part of the cause of action. This is not permitted either at law nor in equity.
Spoliation
1) English ecclesiastical law. The name of a suit sued out in the spiritual court to recover for the fruits of the church, or for the church itself. 2) Torts. Destruction of a thing by the act of a stranger; as, the erasure or alteration of a writing by the act of a stranger, is called spoliation. This has not the effect to destroy its character or legal effect.
Sponsalia
Sponsolia or stipulatio sponsolitia. A promise lawfully made between persons capable of marrying each other, that at some future time they will marry
Sponsions
International law. Agreements or engagements made by certain public officers, as generals or admirals, in time of war, either without author-ity, or by exceeding the limits of authority under which they purport to be made.
Sponsor
Civil law. He who intervenes for another voluntarily and without being requested. The engagement which he enters into is only accessory to the principal
Spousal support
Spouse
Husband or wife.
Spring
A fountain.
Springing use
Estates. One to arise on a future event, when no preceding estate is limited, and does not take effect in derogation of any preceding interest. Example: a grant is made to A in fee, to the use of B in fee, after the fourth of July; no use arises till the limited period. The use in the mean time results to the grantor, who has a determinable fee.
Spy
One who goes into a place for the purpose of ascertaining the best way of doing an injury there.
Squatter
One who settles on the lands of others without any legal author-ity; this term is applied particularly to persons who settle on the public land.
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