SECUS. Otherwise.
SEDITION1, crimes. The raising commotions2 or disturbances3 in the state; it is a revolt against legitimate4 authority, Ersk. Princ. Laws, Scotl. b. 4, t. 4, s. 14; Dig. Lib. 49, t. 16, 1. 3, 19.
2. The distinction between sedition and treason consists in this, that though its ultimate object is a violation5 of the public peace, or at least such a course of measures as evidently engenders6 it, yet it does not aim at direct and open violence against the laws, or the subversion7 of the constitution. Alis. Crim. Law of Scotl. 580.
3. The. obnoxious8 and obsolete9 act of July 14, 1798, 1 Story's Laws U. S. 543, was called the sedition law, because its professed10 object was to prevent disturbances.
4. In the Scotch11 law, sedition is either verbal or real. Verbal is inferred from the uttering of words tending to create discord12 between the king and his people; real sedition is generally committed by convocating together any considerable number of people, without lawful13 authority, under the pretence14 of redressing15 some public grievance16, to the disturbing of the public peace. 1 Ersk. ut supra.
SEDUCTION. The offence of a man who abuses the simplicity17 and confidence of a woman to obtain by false promises what she ought not to grant.
2. The woman being particeps criminis, has no remedy for the mere18 seduction, nor is there, to the discredit19 of the law, a direct remedy in her parents. The seducer20 may be sued, though not. directly or ostensibly for the seduction; but for the consequent inability to perform those services for which she was accountable to her master, or to her parent, who, for this purpose, is obliged to assume that less endearing relation; and if it cannot be proved that she filled that office, the action cannot be sustained. 7 Mann. Gr. 1033. It follows, therefore, that when the daughter is of full age, and the father is not entitled to her services, and actually, she is not in his service, the father can maintain no action for the seduction. 5 Harr. J. 27; 1 Wend. 447; 3 Pennsyl. 49; 10 John. 115. Vide 2 Watts21 474; 9 John. 387; 2 Wend. 459; 5 Cowen 106; 2 Penn. 583; 6 Munf. 587; 2 A. K. Marsh22. 128; 2 Overt23. 93; 9 John. R. 387; 2 New Reports, 476; 6 East, 887; Peake's Rep. 253; 11 East, 24; 5 East, 45; 2 T. R. 4; 2 Selw. N. P. 1001; 2 Phil. Ev. 156; 3 Chitt. Bl. Com. 140, n.; 7 Com. Dig. 318; 6 M. W. 55.
SEEDS. The substance which nature prepares for the reproduction of plants or animals.
2. Seeds which have been sown in the earth immediately become a part of the land in which they have been sown; quae sata solo cedere intelliguntur. Inst. 2, 1, 32.
