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• substantiate

  To demonstrate clearly and convincingly, with satisfactory and sufficient evidence
• substituted beneficiary

  When a testator appoints a beneficiary to inherit a benefit and, at the same time, appoints another person to take the place of the first mentioned beneficiary
• substitution

  Substitution in law is the act of replacing a party or an element in a legal setting like a contract or lawsuit, with the aim of replacing an existing entity with another.
• sufficient interest

  Having a legitimate concern or stake in a particular issue or matter
• superior court

  A court of general jurisdiction over civil and criminal legal cases / any of the higher courts of the legal system, whose jurisdiction is not limited
• supervening impossibility

  Something has become impossible to do or achieve after an agreement or contract has been made.
• surety

  Someone who assumes direct liability for another's obligation
• suspect

  A person who is believed to have committed a crime, but has not yet been found guilty
• suspensive condition

  A condition which prevents an obligation arising unless and until a specific future event, certain or uncertain, occurs
• suspensive dies cedit

  The beneficiary does not get a vested, final right to the benefit unless and until a particular uncertain future event takes place / the day has come
• suspensive dies venit

  The moment has come
• state legal advisor

  A legal officer appointed or elected to represent a state in court proceedings
• statute

  A law that has been enacted by a legislature
• statutory arbitration

  A formal hearing during which the parties to a dispute will lead evidence and present argument to the arbitrator
• statutory illegality

  The contravention of a statutory provision
• sterility

  The ability to have sexual intercourse but unable to procreate children
• special court

  A court that has competence only for matters that are assigned to it by a particular law
• sue

  To seek justice or right from (a person) by legal process
• supreme law

  The highest law
• tacitly

  Implied or inferred without direct expression
• terminated

  Legally ending the agreement before all parties have completed the terms and obligations of the contract
• territoriality principle

  States have exclusive authority to deal with criminal issues arising within their territories
• testamentary

  Of or relating to a will or testament
• testator

  Someone who makes a last will and testament to dispose of their estate after their death
• testamentory executor

  The individual who carries out one's last will and testament, ensuring that the stipulations and wishes of the deceased are carried out properly