{"id":4556,"date":"2016-03-23T08:52:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T13:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2016-03-23T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T13:50:46","slug":"ss-is-not-always-steamship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/23\/ss-is-not-always-steamship\/","title":{"rendered":"SS Is Not Always Steamship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal documents frequently contain the abbreviation &#8220;ss&#8221; after the court location. There is a reason the abbreviation is used in that part of the document. The letters are said to be a contraction for <em>scilicet\u00a0<\/em>which is frequently translated as &#8220;in particular&#8221; or &#8220;to wit&#8221; and is usually used to state the venue of the court.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ss-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4558\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4558\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ss-1.jpg\" alt=\"ss\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ss-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ss-1-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal documents frequently contain the abbreviation &#8220;ss&#8221; after the court location. There is a reason the abbreviation is used in that part of the document. The letters are said to be a contraction for scilicet\u00a0which is frequently translated as &#8220;in particular&#8221; or &#8220;to wit&#8221; and is usually used to state the venue of the court.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}