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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 703 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SETIA (mod. Sezze, 52 M. by See also:rail S.E. of See also:Rome)  , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Latium (adjectum), See also:Italy, on the See also:south-See also:west edge of the Volscian mountains, overlooking.the Pomptine Marshes, 1047 ft. above See also:sea-level, and over 900 ft. above the See also:plain . It was an ancient Volscian town, a member of the Latin See also:league of 499 B.C., which became a Latin See also:colony in 382 B.C., and, owing to the strength of its position as a frontier fortress, is frequently mentioned in the military See also:history of See also:Rome up to the See also:time of See also:Sulla, by whom it was captured in 82 B.C . Under the See also:empire it was well known for its See also:wine, which See also:Augustus preferred even to Falernian . Considerable remains of the See also:city walls exist, built of large blocks of See also:limestone in the polygonal See also:style . This style may also be seen in several See also:terrace walls belonging to a later date, as is indicated by the careful jointing and bossing of the blocks of which they are composed . Such intentional archaism is by no means uncommon in the neighbourhood of Rome . The See also:modern town, occupying the ancient site, is an episcopal see, with a much-restored 13th-See also:century See also:Gothic See also:cathedral . Pop . (1901) 6944 (town), 10,827 (See also:commune) . At the See also:foot of the See also:hill on which the town stands are considerable remains of See also:Roman villas . (T . As.) ' A .

Jeremias, Das A . T. See also:

im Lichte See also:des See also:alien Orients, p . 118 . 2 Encycl . Biblica, ".See also:Seth," " See also:Egypt." ' E . See also:Meyer, See also:Die Israeliten and tihre Nachbarstamme, p . 219 . See also:SETON 703 SET-OFF, in See also:law, a statutory See also:defence to the whole or to a portion of a See also:plaintiff's claim . It had no existence under the See also:English See also:common law, being created by 2 Geo . II. c . 22 for the See also:relief of insolvent debtors . Such a defence could be pleaded only in respect of mutual debts of a definite See also:character, and did not apply to cases in which See also:damages were claimed, nor to equitable claims or demands .

By the rules of the Supreme See also:

Court (O . XIX. r . 3) a See also:defendant in an See also: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 See also:cross-action . (See See also:PLEADING.) In See also:architecture, the See also:term set-off is given to the See also:horizontal See also:line shown where a See also:wall is reduced in thickness, and consequently the See also:part of the thicker portion appears projecting before the thinner . In plinths this is generally simply chamfered . In other parts of See also:work the set-off is generally concealed by a projecting See also:string . Where, as in parapets, the upper part projects before the See also:lower, the break is generally hid by a See also:corbel table . The portions of See also:buttress caps which recede one behind another are also called sets-off .

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