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721 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SETTLEMENT.5 (Noah Webster)
4. The act of giving possession by legal sanction.
722 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SETTLEMENT.16 (Noah Webster)
13. Legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town …
723 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHAVE.14 (Noah Webster)
To shave a note. to purchase it at a great discount, a discount much beyong the legal rate of interest. [A low phrase.]
724 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHUT.16 (Noah Webster)
4. To confine by legal or moral restraint.
725 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SINGULARITY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Particular privilege, prerogative or distinction. No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity, (universal bishop.) Catholicism-must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation.
726 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SMITE.3 (Noah Webster)
… by legal execution.]
727 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLEMNIZE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To perform with ritual ceremonies and respect, or according to legal forms; as, to solemnize a marriage.
728 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOUND.12 (Noah Webster)
11. Founded in right and law; legal; valid; not defective; that cannot be overthrown; as a sound title to land; sound justice.
729 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRENGTH.18 (Noah Webster)
12. Legal or moral force; validity; the quality of binding, uniting or securing; as the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion or custom.
730 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRENGTHEN.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To make strong or stronger; to add strength to, either physical, legal or moral; as, to strengthen a limb; to strengthen an obligation.
731 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRESS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Force; urgency; pressure; importance; that which bears with most weight; as the stress of a legal question. Consider how much stress is laid on the exercise of charity in the New Testament.
732 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRIP.20 (Noah Webster)
2. Waste, in a legal sense; destruction of fences, buildings, timber, etc.
733 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBPENA.3 (Noah Webster)
SUBPENA, v.t. To serve with a writ of subpena; to command attendance in court by a legal writ.
734 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To seek justice or right from one by legal process; to institute process in law against one; to prosecute in a civil action for the recovery of a real or supposed right; as, to sue one for debt; to sue one for damages in trespass. Matthew 5:40 .
735 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To gain by legal process.
736 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUE.6 (Noah Webster)
SUE, v.i. To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek for in law; as, to sue for damages.
737 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUIT.9 (Noah Webster)
7. In law, an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.
738 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUITOR.2 (Noah Webster)
1. One who attends a court, whether plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror and the like. These, in legal phraseology, are all included in the word suitors.
739 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SURREBUT.1 (Noah Webster)
SURREBUT, v.i. [sur and rebut.] In legal pleadings, to reply, as a plaintif, to a defendant’s rebutter.
740 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SURREJOIN.1 (Noah Webster)
SURREJOIN, v.i. [sur and rejoin.] In legal pleadings, to reply, as a plaintif to a defendant’s rejoinder.