The knowledge of many, methodically digested and arranged, so as to be attainable by one; a body of princi- ples and deductions to explain the nature of some matter. 33 La. Am. 637. See 13 Wend. 205; BOOKS OF SCIENCE. Depends upon abstract or speculative principles. "Art" relates to practice or performance-is practical skill as directed by theory or science; the mere application of knowledge. Rifle-shooting is not a "science." Anderson; 33 La. An. 637. The term "science" cannot, with propriety, be applied to a work of so fluctuating and fugi- tive a form as that of a newspaper or price- current, the subject-matter of which is daily changing, and is of mere temporary use. Prices-current, catalogues of merchandise, a scoring-sheet for games, a chart of patterns for dresses, blank account-books, and the like are not subjects of the copyright laws passed in execution of the foregoing power. Id.; 2 Paine 392. Scientific Works. A medical expert may cite standard authorities as sustaining his views, and then they may be used by the opposite side to discredit him; but they may not be read as evidence or argument. Id.; 77 N. C. 58, 59. SCIENDUM (L. Lat.). In English Law. The name given to a clause inserted in the record by which it is made "known that the justice here in court, in this same term, delivered a writ thereupon to the deputy sheriff of the county aforesaid, to be executed in due form of law." Lee, Dict. Record. SCIENTER (Lat. knowingly). The allegation in a pleading of knowledge; Webb's Poll. Torts 614; on the part of a defendant or person accused, which is necessary to charge upon him the conse- quence of the crime or tort. A man may do many acts which are justifiable or not, as he is ignorant or not ignorant of certain facts. He may pass a counterfeit coin, when he is ignorant of its being counterfeit, and is guilty of no of- fence; but if he knew the coin to be coun- terfeit, which is called the scienter, he is guilty of passing counterfeit money. Where evidence of the scienter has been given, it may be rebutted, as where the charge is passing counterfeit money, the defendant may show that the bill was gen- uine or that under the circumstances he had reason to suppose it was, or that he ex- amined a counterfeit detector in regard to it; 8 Wis. 167. Proof of a conspiracy to put forth counterfeit bills is admissible to show the scienter as against one of the parties to it; 19 Conn. 233. In an action against the owner of a dog, alleged to be a dangerous animal, the fact that it is a watch-dog, chained during the day and loosed at night, is sufficient with- out further proof of scienter; 35 La. Ann. 1091. The averment of a scienter in an indict- ment is not sufficient to supply omission of the positive statement that the defendant did the act; 2 McCord 377; and a charge in an indictment that the defendant passed, etc., a counterfeit, without alleging that he knew it to be such, is insufficient even after verdict; 105 U. S. 611. SCILICET (Lat. scire, to know, licet, it is permitted: you may know: translated by to wit, in its old sense of to know). That is to say; to wit; namely. It is a clause to usher in the sentence of another, to particularize that which was too general before, distribute what was too gross, or to explain what was doubtful and obscure. It neither increases nor di- minishes the premises or habendum, for it gives nothing of itself; it may make a re- striction when the preceding words may be restrained; Hob. 171; 1 P. Wms. 18; Co. Litt. 180 b, n. 1. When the scilicet is repugnant to the precedent matter, it is void: for example, when a declaration in trover states that the plaintiff on the third day of May was possessed of certain goods which on the fourth day of May came to the defendant's hands, who afterward, to wit, on the first day of May, converted them, the scilicet was rejected as surplusage; Cro. Jac. 428. And see 6 Binn. 15; 3 Saund. 291, note 1. Stating material and traversable matter under a scilicet will not avoid the conse- quences of a variance: 1 M'Cl. & Y. 277; 2 B. & P. 170, n. 2; 4 Johns. 450; 2 Pick. 223; nor will the mere omission of a scilicet render immaterial matter material; 2 Saund. 206 a; even in a criminal proceed- ing; 2 Camp. 307, n. See 3 Term 68; 3 Maule & S. 173. SCINTILLA (Lat.). A spark; a remaining particle; the least particle.