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Stevedore
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StevedoreA person employed in loading and unloading vessels.
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Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
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Stere
A French measure of solidity used in measuring wood. It is a cubic metre.
Sterility
Barrenness; incapacity to produce a child. It is curable and incurable; when of the latter kind, at the time of the marriage, and arising from impotency, it is a good cause for dissolving a marriage.
Sterling
Current money of Great Britain, but anciently a small coin, worth about one penny; and so called, as some suppose, because it was stamped with the figure of a small star, or, as others suppose, because it was first stamped in England in the reign of King John, by merchants from Germany called Esterlings. Pounds sterling, originally signified so many pounds in weight of these coins.
Stet
(United Kingdom) Do not delete, let it stand.
Stet processus
Practice. An order made, upon proper cause shown, that the process remain stationary. As where a defendant having become insolvent would, by moving judgment in the case of nonsuit, compel a plaintiff to proceed, the court will, on an affidavit, of the fact of insolvency, award a stet proces-sus.
Stevedore
Steward of all england
Seneschallus totius Angliae. An officer among the English who was invested with various powers, and, among others, it was his duty to preside on the trial of peers.
Stews
English law. Places formerly permitted in England to women of professed lewdness, and who, for hire, would prostitute their bodies to all comers.
Stillicidium
Civil law. The rain water that falls from the roof or eaves of a house by scattered drops. When it is gathered into a spout it is called flumen.
Stint
English law. The proportionable part of a man's cattle, which he may keep upon the common.
Stipulated damages
Contracts. The sum agreed by the parties to be paid, on a breach of a contract, by the party violating his engagement to the other.
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Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Stere
A French measure of solidity used in measuring wood. It is a cubic metre.
Sterility
Barrenness; incapacity to produce a child. It is curable and incurable; when of the latter kind, at the time of the marriage, and arising from impotency, it is a good cause for dissolving a marriage.
Sterling
Current money of Great Britain, but anciently a small coin, worth about one penny; and so called, as some suppose, because it was stamped with the figure of a small star, or, as others suppose, because it was first stamped in England in the reign of King John, by merchants from Germany called Esterlings. Pounds sterling, originally signified so many pounds in weight of these coins.
Stet
(United Kingdom) Do not delete, let it stand.
Stet processus
Practice. An order made, upon proper cause shown, that the process remain stationary. As where a defendant having become insolvent would, by moving judgment in the case of nonsuit, compel a plaintiff to proceed, the court will, on an affidavit, of the fact of insolvency, award a stet proces-sus.
Stevedore
Steward of all england
Seneschallus totius Angliae. An officer among the English who was invested with various powers, and, among others, it was his duty to preside on the trial of peers.
Stews
English law. Places formerly permitted in England to women of professed lewdness, and who, for hire, would prostitute their bodies to all comers.
Stillicidium
Civil law. The rain water that falls from the roof or eaves of a house by scattered drops. When it is gathered into a spout it is called flumen.
Stint
English law. The proportionable part of a man's cattle, which he may keep upon the common.
Stipulated damages
Contracts. The sum agreed by the parties to be paid, on a breach of a contract, by the party violating his engagement to the other.
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