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* SEDLEY. 754 SEE. and twice came under the ban of the law for rioloua and indecent beliavior. He supported the Kevolution and opposed James II. on account of tlic latter's intrigue with his daughter, whom the King had made Countess of Dorchester. He was cstecnicil by liis contemporaries for his wit, satire, and dramatic works, the chief of which are: TItc Mulberry Gunkn, a comedy (1068); Antony and VUopuIra, a tragedy (1077) ; Bella- mira, ur The Mistress, a comedy (1087) ; Beauty the Conqueror, or The Death of Murk Antony, a tragedy (1702): The Grumbler, a. comedy (17"b2) ; and The Tyrant King of Crete, a trage- dy (1702). Consult the Memoir, prefixed to his li'orA-.v (London, 1778). SEDUCTION (Lat. seductio, a leading astray, from sedueore, to lead astray, from se-, apart + ducere, to lead). In law, in its broadest sense, the decoying or enticement of a servant away from his emplojniient to his master's damage. 15y mo(k'rn usage the term is generally, although not exclusively, applied to the persuasion of the servant to unhiwful sexual intercourse with the seducer. Seduction by the common law was one of the numerous forms of tort for which the person injured might recover damage. The use of this form of action to recover for the loss of service of a servant, however, is now of infre- quent occurrence. The action, however, is now important as aft'ording a parent a means of recovery of damage from the seducer for unlaw- ful intercourse with his daughter. For all prac- tical purposes the effect of his action is to enable him to recover damage for the wrong done him as a parent, and the amount of his recovery is not limited to the actual financial loss. Histor- ically and in legal contemplation, however, the I)arent's right to recover is based upon the loss of service of his daughter as a servant, and it seems not unlikely that originally the right to recover for seduction, of a child did not differ in any particular from the right to recover for the enticement of a servant. To entitle the parent, therefore, to recover for the seduction of his daughter it was necessary for him to estab- lish loss of the daughter's services as a conse- quence of the seduction. This is still the rule in England, but generally in the United States, by a relaxation of the rule, the parent may main- tain the action if he has a legal right to the daughter's services during her minority, whether he is actually availing Iiimself of them or not. This fact being established, however, he may re- cover not alone for loss of the daughter's services, but for the injury to his feelings and an addi- tional amount as punitive damages. In establishing loss of service or invasion of the parent's legal right to the daughter's services slight acts of service or a bare legal right to services will suffice. And whenever loss of siich service or interference wilh the right follow as a direct result of the seduction, the seducer must respond in damages. At common law the person seduced had no right of action against the se- ducer, as the seduction was accomplished with the consent of the person seduced, and this was the rule even when the seduction was accom- plished by fraud. In some States by statute the person seduced may maintain an action in her own right, although usually this may not be done unless a child is born as a consequence of the se- duction, thus making the action analogous to a bastardy proceeding. Seduction was not a crime by the common law. Most of the States of the Lnited States now have statutes making seduc- tion of a woman of previous chaste character a crime. Generally the.y are applicable only to the seduction of unmarried women luider promise of marriage, and subsequent marriage is not infre- quentl,v made a bar to prosecution for this of- fense. Consult authorities referred to under Criminal Law. SEDXT'LIUS, C.ELius. A Christian poet of the fifth century. He wrote Carmen Paschale, an e.xtant hexameter poem, in five books, on the histor,y of the Old Testament; Opus Pasehale, a prose version of the work, which is also ex- tant; Abecedarius, an alphabetical hymn to Christ in 23 quatrains of iambic dimeters, re- markable for the partial employment of rhyme as a musical element; and Veteris et Novi Tcsta- mcirti Collatio, a comparison of the Old and New Testaments in 55 couplets of elegiacs. The best editions are by Arevalus (1704) and Ilulmer (1885). Consult: Hulmer, De SediiUi I'oetw ita et Scriptis (Vienna, 1878), and Leimbach, Ueber den christlichen Dichter SeduUus (Goslar, 1879). SEE, Horace (18.35—). An American con- sulting engineer and naval architect, born in Pliiladelphia. Pa., where he was educated and after learning the machinist's trade became a 7nechanical engineer. In 1871 he entered the employ of William Cramp and Sons and in 1879 became their superintending engineer. He de- signed and in some cases supervised diu'ing manufacture and trial engines for the cruisers Yorlctoicn, Coneord, Bennington, Philadelphia, Newark, and Vesuvius, the steamship Monmouth, and other steamships and private yachts. In 1889 he removed to New York City and opened an office as a consulting engineer and architect. More than any other one man, perhaps, he ad- vanced the use of the double-compound, triple, and quadruple expansion engines. His device for the manufactire of perfect bearings and crank shafts did away with heating these parts before using the engine, and his hydro-pneumatic ash- ejeetor discharging the ashes direct from the fireroom outside the vessel above the water line did away with dirt and noise and relieved the firemen of considerable work. He also introduced many improvements in the hull, as well as ma- chinery, of steam vessels. SEE, John (1845—). A Premier of New South Wales. He was born in Hmtingdonshire, England, and went as a bo,v to Australia. In 1880 ho entered Parliament as a member from Grafton and afterwards occupied successively the oflices of Postmaster-General for the Colony, Colonial Treasurer ( 1891-94), Minister of Defense (1899- 1901), and Colonial Secretary and Premier, which post he assumed in 1902. SEE, Thomas .Teffer.son Jackson (1866—). An American astronomer, born near IMontgomery City, Mo. He was educated at the universities of Missouri and Berlin, receiving his doctor's de- gree at the latter institution (1892) and pre- senting as inaugural dissertation a research of striking merit into the ori,gin of binary stars. In 189.3-96 he assisted in the organization of the Yerkes Observatory, In 1896 he became as- tronomer at the Lowell Observatory, and in 1899 professor of mathematics in the United States Navy, While at the Lowell Observatory, he ex-