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  • SABURRA
    L. Lat In old maritime law. Ballast
  • SAC
    In old English law. A liberty of holding pleas; the jurisdiction of a manor court; the privilege claimed by a lord of trying actions of trespass between his tenants; In his manor court, and imposing fines and amerciaments in the same.
  • SACABURTH, SACABERE, SAKABERE
    In old English law. He that lis' robbed, or by theft deprived of his money or goods, and puts in surety to prosecute the felon with fresh suit Bract, fol. 1546.
  • SACCABOR
    In old Egnllsh law. The person from whom a thing had been stolen, and by whom the thief was freshly pursued. Bract, fol. 154b. See SACABURTH.
  • SACCULARII
    Lat In Roman law. Cutpurses. 4 Steph. Comm. 125.
  • SACUS
    L. Lat In old English law. A sack. A quantity of wool weighing thirty or twenty-eight stone. Fleta, L 2, c. 79, f 10.
  • SACCUS CUM BROCHIA
    L. Lat In old English law. A service or tenure of finding a sack and a broach (pitcher) to tbe sovereign for the use of the army. Bract L 2, c 16.
  • SACQUIER
    In maritime law. The name of an ancient officer, whose business was to load and unload vessels laden with salt, corn, or fish, to prevent the ship's crew defrauding the merchant by false tale, or cheating him of his merchandise otherwise. Laws Oleron, art 11; 1 Pet Adm. Append. 25
  • SACRA
    Lat In Roman law. The right to participate in the sacred rites of the city. Butl. Hor. Jur. 27.
  • SACRAMENTALES
    L. Lat In feudal law. Compurgators; persons who came to purge a defendant by their oath that they believed him innocent
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