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Superficies




Superficies

A Latin word used among civilians. It signifies in the edict of the praetor whatever has been erected on the soil, quidquid solo inoedificdtum est.

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Word
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Edict
A law ordained by the sovereign, by which he forbids or commands something it extends either to the whole country, or only to some particular provinces.

Praetor
Roman civil law. A municipal officer of Rome, so called because, (praeiret populo,) he went before or took precedence of the people. The consuls were at first called praetors

Soil
The superficies of the earth on which buildings are erected, or may be



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Super altum mare
Upon the high sea.

Super visum corpore
Upon view of the body. When an inquest is held over a body found dead, it must be super visum corpore.

Supercargo
Maritime law. A person specially employed by the owner of a cargo to take charge of the merchandise which has been shipped, to sell it to the best advantage, and to purchase returning cargoes and to receive freight, as he may be authorized.

Superficiarius
Civil law. He who has built upon the soil of another, which he has hired for a number of years or forever, yielding a yearly rent. This is not very different from the owner of a lot on ground rent in Pennsylvania.

Superfoetation
med. jur. The conception of a second embryo, during the gestation of the first, or the conception of a child by a woman already pregnant with another, during the time of such pregnancy.

Superior
One who has a right to command; one who holds a superior rank; as, a soldier is bound to obey his superior. 2. In estates, some are superior to others; an estate entitled to a servitude or easement over another estate, is called the superior or dominant, and the other the inferior or servient estate.

Supernumerarii
Rom. civil law. From the reign of Constantine to Justinian, advocates were divided into two classes: viz. advocates in title, who were called statute, and supernumeraries. The statutis were inscribed in the mat-riculation books, and formed a part of the college of advocates in each jurisdiction. The supernumeraries were not attached to any bar in particular, and could reside where, they pleased; they took the place of advocates by title, as vacancies occurred in that body.

Supersedeas
practice, actions. The name of a writ containing a command to stay the proceedings at law.

Superseding clause
A clause in a bill of lading (supra) providing that the bill of lading itself supersedes all agreements or freight (supra) engagements for the shipment of the goods, and also that all the terms of the bill of lading, whether written, typed, stamped or printed, are binding on the shipper (supra), consignee (supra), owner of the goods and holder of the bill, as if the bill were signed by them, any local customs or privileges to the contrary notwithstanding.

Superstitious use
English law. When lands, tenements, rents, goods or chattels are given, secured or appointed for and toward the maintenance of a priest or chaplain to say mass; for the maintenance of a priest, or other man, to pray for the soul of any dead man, in such a church or elsewhere; to have and maintain perpetual obits, lamps, torches, &c., to be used at certain times to help to save the souls of men out of purgatory; in such cases the king by force of several statutes, is authorized to direct and appoint all such uses to such purposes as are truly charitable.

Supervisor
An overseer; a surveyor.



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Sumptuary laws
Those relating to expenses, and made to restrain excess in apparel.

Super altum mare
Upon the high sea.

Super visum corpore
Upon view of the body. When an inquest is held over a body found dead, it must be super visum corpore.

Supercargo
Maritime law. A person specially employed by the owner of a cargo to take charge of the merchandise which has been shipped, to sell it to the best advantage, and to purchase returning cargoes and to receive freight, as he may be authorized.

Superficiarius
Civil law. He who has built upon the soil of another, which he has hired for a number of years or forever, yielding a yearly rent. This is not very different from the owner of a lot on ground rent in Pennsylvania.

Superficies

Superfoetation
med. jur. The conception of a second embryo, during the gestation of the first, or the conception of a child by a woman already pregnant with another, during the time of such pregnancy.

Superior
One who has a right to command; one who holds a superior rank; as, a soldier is bound to obey his superior. 2. In estates, some are superior to others; an estate entitled to a servitude or easement over another estate, is called the superior or dominant, and the other the inferior or servient estate.

Supernumerarii
Rom. civil law. From the reign of Constantine to Justinian, advocates were divided into two classes: viz. advocates in title, who were called statute, and supernumeraries. The statutis were inscribed in the mat-riculation books, and formed a part of the college of advocates in each jurisdiction. The supernumeraries were not attached to any bar in particular, and could reside where, they pleased; they took the place of advocates by title, as vacancies occurred in that body.

Supersedeas
practice, actions. The name of a writ containing a command to stay the proceedings at law.

Superseding clause
A clause in a bill of lading (supra) providing that the bill of lading itself supersedes all agreements or freight (supra) engagements for the shipment of the goods, and also that all the terms of the bill of lading, whether written, typed, stamped or printed, are binding on the shipper (supra), consignee (supra), owner of the goods and holder of the bill, as if the bill were signed by them, any local customs or privileges to the contrary notwithstanding.

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