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Surname
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SurnameA name which is added to the christian name, and which, in modern times, have become family names.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Christian
One who believes or assents to the doctrines of Christianity, as taught by Jesus Christ in the New Testament, or who, being born of Christian parents or in a Christian country, does not profess any other religion, or does not belong to any one of the other religious divisions of man. Hale v. Everett, 53 N.H. 50 (1868). See Name, 1.
Family
Domestic relations. In a limited sense it signifies the father, mother, and children. In a more extensive sense it comprehends all the individuals who live under the authority of another, and includes the servants of the family. It is also employed to signify all the relations who descend from a common ancestor, or who spring from a common root.
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Surety
Contracts. A person who binds himself for the payment of a sum of money or for the performance of something else, for another, who is already bound for the same. A surety differs from a guarantor, and the latter cannot be sued until after a suit against the principal.
Surety bond
A bond purchased at the expense of the estate to insure the executor's proper performance. Also referred to as "fidelity bond."
Surety of the peace
Criminal lawA security entered into before. Some competent court or officer, by a party accused, together with some other person, in the form of recognizance to the commonwealth in a certain sum of money, with, a condition that the accused shall keep the peace towards all the citizens of the commonwealth. A security for good behaviour is a similar recognizance with a condition that the accused shall be of good behaviour.
Suretyship
Contracts. An accessory agreement by which a person binds himself for another already bound, either in whole or in part, as for his debt, default or miscarriage.
Surgery
med. jur. That part of the healing art which relates to external diseases; their treatment; and, specially, to the manual operations adopted for their cure.
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Surplus
That which is left from a fund which has been appropriated for a particular purpose; the remainder of a thing; the overplus the residue.
Surplusage
Pleading. A superfluous and useless statement of matter wholly foreign and impertinent to the cause. 2) Accounts. A greater dishursement than the charges of the accountant amount to.
Surprise
This term is frequently used in courts of equity and by writers on equity jurisprudence. It signifies the act by which a party who is entering into a contract is taken unawares, by which sudden confusion or perplexity is created, which renders it proper that a court of equity should relieve the party so surprised.
Surrebutal
Evidence the defendant can present to counter rebuttal evidence.
Surrebutter
Pleading. The plaintiff's answer to the defendant's rebutter is governed by the same rules as the replication.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Christian
One who believes or assents to the doctrines of Christianity, as taught by Jesus Christ in the New Testament, or who, being born of Christian parents or in a Christian country, does not profess any other religion, or does not belong to any one of the other religious divisions of man. Hale v. Everett, 53 N.H. 50 (1868). See Name, 1.
Family
Domestic relations. In a limited sense it signifies the father, mother, and children. In a more extensive sense it comprehends all the individuals who live under the authority of another, and includes the servants of the family. It is also employed to signify all the relations who descend from a common ancestor, or who spring from a common root.
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Surety
Contracts. A person who binds himself for the payment of a sum of money or for the performance of something else, for another, who is already bound for the same. A surety differs from a guarantor, and the latter cannot be sued until after a suit against the principal.
Surety bond
A bond purchased at the expense of the estate to insure the executor's proper performance. Also referred to as "fidelity bond."
Surety of the peace
Criminal lawA security entered into before. Some competent court or officer, by a party accused, together with some other person, in the form of recognizance to the commonwealth in a certain sum of money, with, a condition that the accused shall keep the peace towards all the citizens of the commonwealth. A security for good behaviour is a similar recognizance with a condition that the accused shall be of good behaviour.
Suretyship
Contracts. An accessory agreement by which a person binds himself for another already bound, either in whole or in part, as for his debt, default or miscarriage.
Surgery
med. jur. That part of the healing art which relates to external diseases; their treatment; and, specially, to the manual operations adopted for their cure.
Surname
Surplus
That which is left from a fund which has been appropriated for a particular purpose; the remainder of a thing; the overplus the residue.
Surplusage
Pleading. A superfluous and useless statement of matter wholly foreign and impertinent to the cause. 2) Accounts. A greater dishursement than the charges of the accountant amount to.
Surprise
This term is frequently used in courts of equity and by writers on equity jurisprudence. It signifies the act by which a party who is entering into a contract is taken unawares, by which sudden confusion or perplexity is created, which renders it proper that a court of equity should relieve the party so surprised.
Surrebutal
Evidence the defendant can present to counter rebuttal evidence.
Surrebutter
Pleading. The plaintiff's answer to the defendant's rebutter is governed by the same rules as the replication.
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