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41. Statute Of Uses

style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">A 1535 English law that prevented, for a time, the legal structure of a use.

42. Statute Of Frauds

style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">A statute that set a minimum standard for enforceable contracts, usually requiring at a minimum something in writing or the actual exchange of reciprocal obligations, at least in part.

43. Statement Of Defense

style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">A defendant's written answer or reply to a statement of claim, admitting or denying each and every one of the facts contained in the statement of claim and alleging such facts as the defendant wishes to assert at trial in opposition to the plaintiff's case.

44. Statement Of Claim

style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">The document which sets out the plaintiff's allegations of fact and thus, engages the judicial process by seeking trial.

45. State Law

style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">in America, this refers to the jurisdiction of each state and the laws that govern their respective citizens in conjunction with national law as determined by independent state legislatures<span class="ecxApple-converted-space">&nbsp;span>

46. State

style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">A term of international law: those groups of people which have acquired international recognition as an independent country and which have four characteristics.

47. Squatter

style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">an individual that lives on the land of another or that is publicly owned without consent or legal authority<span class="ecxApple-converted-space">&nbsp;span>

48. Spy/spies

style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">A person who acts clandestinely or on false pretenses to endeavour to obtain information of or within another state with the intention of communicating or selling it to others.

49. Sprinkling Trust

style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Discretion given to a trustee to distribute income from a trust fund disproportionately between beneficiaries.

50. Spousal Support

style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Payments to an ex-spouse which are temporary or indefinite, designed to pool and share the income of both spouses for that period of time necessary for the lower-income spouse to become economically self-sufficient.

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