SETIA (mod. Sezze, 44 m. by rail S. E. of Rome), an ancient town of Latium (adjectum), Italy, on the south-west edge of the Volscian mountains, overlooking the Pomptine Marshes, 1,047 ft. above sea-level, and over goo ft. above the plain. It was an ancient Volscian town, which became a Latin colony in 382 B.c., and, owing to the strength of its position as a frontier fortress, is frequently mentioned in military history. It was captured by Sulla in 82 B.C. Under the empire it was well known for its wine, which Augustus preferred even to Falernian. Considerable re mains of the city walls exist, built of large blocks of limestone in the polygonal style. This style may also be seen in several terrace walls belonging to a later date. The modern town, occupying the ancient site, has a much-restored 13th-century Gothic cathedral. Pop. (1931) 7,057, town; 15,250, commune. At the foot of the
hill on which the town stands are considerable remains of Roman villas. Here is the railway station, at which the new line from Rome via Cisterna is joined by the old one via Velletri.
See H. H. Armstrong in American Journal of Archaeology (1915), 34. (T. A.) in law, a statutory defence to the whole or to a portion of a plaintiff's claim. It was created for mutual debts only by 2 Geo. II. ch. 22 for the relief of insolvent debtors. By the rules of the supreme court (0. XIX. r. 3) a defendant in an action may set off or set up any right or claim by way of counterclaim against the claims of a plaintiff, and such set-off or counterclaim has the same effect as a statement of claim in a cross-action. (See PLEADING.) The word "compensation" as used in many foreign codes has substantially the same meaning.