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Supplicium




Supplicium

civil law. A corporal punishment ordained by law; the punishment of death, so called because it was customary to accompany the guilty man to the place of execution and there offer supplications for him.

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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.

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.

Corporal
1) An epithet for anything belonging to the body, as, corporal punishment, for punishment inflictedon the person of the criminal; corporal oath, which is an oath by the party who takes it being obliged to lay his hand on the Bible. 2) In the army. A non-commissioned officer in a battalion of infantry.

Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.

Death
Cessation of life; extinction of political existence.

Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.

Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.

Execution
1) Contracts. The accomplishment of a thing; as the execution of a bond and warrant of attorney, which is the signing, sealing, and delivery of the same. 2) Criminal law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in pursuance of his sentence.

Offer
Contracts. A proposition to do a thing. An offer ought to contain a right, if accepted, of compelling the fulfilment of the contract, and this right when not expressed, is always implied.



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Supplemental
That which is added to a thing to complete it as a supplemental affidavit, which is an additional affidavit to make out a case; a supplemental bill.

Supplemental bill
equity plead. A bill already filed to supply some defect in the original bill.

Supplemental rules
The Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims, adopted in 1966 as part of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in the United States.

Supplementary work
A work prepared for publication as a secondary adjunct to a work by another author for the purpose of introduction, concluding, illustrating, explaining, revising, commenting upon, or assisting in the use of the other work, such as forewords, afterwords, pictorial illustrations, maps, charts, tables, editorial notes, musical arrangements, answer material for tests, bibliographies, appendixes and indexes.

Supplicavit
English law. The name of a writ issuing out of the king's bench or chancery, for taking sureties of the peace; it is commonly directed to the justices of the peace, when they are averse to acting in the affair in their judicial capacity.

Supplies
English law. Extraordinary grants to the king by parliament, to supply the exigencies of the state.

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.

Support trust
A trust that instructs the trustee to spend only as much income and principal (the assets held in the trust) as needed for the beneficiary's support.

Suppress
To forbid the use of evidence at a trial because t is improper or was improperly obtained.

Suppressio veri
Cocealment of truth.



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Supplemental
That which is added to a thing to complete it as a supplemental affidavit, which is an additional affidavit to make out a case; a supplemental bill.

Supplemental bill
equity plead. A bill already filed to supply some defect in the original bill.

Supplemental rules
The Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims, adopted in 1966 as part of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in the United States.

Supplementary work
A work prepared for publication as a secondary adjunct to a work by another author for the purpose of introduction, concluding, illustrating, explaining, revising, commenting upon, or assisting in the use of the other work, such as forewords, afterwords, pictorial illustrations, maps, charts, tables, editorial notes, musical arrangements, answer material for tests, bibliographies, appendixes and indexes.

Supplicavit
English law. The name of a writ issuing out of the king's bench or chancery, for taking sureties of the peace; it is commonly directed to the justices of the peace, when they are averse to acting in the affair in their judicial capacity.

Supplicium

Supplies
English law. Extraordinary grants to the king by parliament, to supply the exigencies of the state.

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.

Support trust
A trust that instructs the trustee to spend only as much income and principal (the assets held in the trust) as needed for the beneficiary's support.

Suppress
To forbid the use of evidence at a trial because t is improper or was improperly obtained.

Suppressio veri
Cocealment of truth.

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