SESUVIUM, in botany, a genus of the Icosandria Trigynia class and order. Na tural order of Succulents:. Ficoidez, Jos aim Essential character: calyx five.part ed, coloured : petals none : capsule ovate, three-celled, cut round, many-seeded. There is only one species, viz. S portula castrum, a native of the West Indies.
SET of, in law, is when the defendant acknowledges the justice of the plaintiff's demand on the one hand, but on the other sets up a demand of his own, to counter balance that of the plaintiff, either in the whole or in part; as if the plaintiff sue for 10/. due on a note of hand, the defendant may set off 9/. due to himself for merchan dize sold to the plaintiff, or for any other. demand, the amount of which is ascer tained in damages.
The action in which a set off is allowa ble upon the statutes 2 and 3 George II. c. 22 and 24, are debt,covenant,and assump sit, for the non-payment of money ; and the demand intended to be set off must be such as might have been made the sub ject of one or other of these actions. A
set off, therefore, is never allowed in ac tions upon the case, trespass, replevin, tkr.c.; nor of a penalty in debt on bond con ditioned forthe performance of covenants, 8cc.; nor of general damages in covenant or assumpsit: but where a bond is condi tioned for the payment of an annuity, a set off may be allowed. A debt barred by the statute of limitations cannot be set off; and if it be pleaded in bar to the ac tion, the plaintiff may reply the statute of limitations ; or if given in evidence, on a notice of set off, which is one mode of setting up this sort of counter demand, it may be objected to at the trial.
SET, or Srrs, a term used by the far mers and gardeners to express the young plants of the white thorn and other shrobs,with which they used to raise their quick or quickset hedges