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  • SACRAMENT ACTIO
    Lat. In the older practice of the Roman law, this was one of the forms of legis actio, consisting in the deposit of a stake or juridical wager. See SACRAMENTUM.
  • SACRAMENTUM
    Lat. In Roman law. An oath, as being a very sacred thing; more particularly, the oath taken by soldiers to be true to their general and their country Ainsw. Lex. In one of the formal methods of beginning an action at law (legis actiones) known to the early Roman jurisprudence, More...
  • SACRILEGE
    In English criminal law. Larceny from a church. 4 Steph. Comm. 164. The crime of breaking a church or chapel, and stealing therein. 1 Russ. Crimes, 84a. In old English law. The desecration of anything considered holy; the alienation to lay-men or to profane or common purposes of what was More...
  • SACRILEGIUM
    Lat. In the civil law. The stealing of sacred things, or things dedicated to sacred uses; the taking of things out of a holy place. Calvin.
  • SACRILEGUS
    Lat. In the civil and common law. A sacrilegious person; one guilty of sacrilege. Saerilegns omnium pradonnm enpl-ditatem et soelera snperat. 4 Coke, 106. A sacrilegious person transcends the cupidity and wickedness of all other robbers.
  • SACRISTAN
    A sexton, anciently called "aagerson," or "sagtoon;" the keeper of things belonging to divine worship.
  • SADBERGE.
    A denomination of part of the county palatine of Durham. Wharton.
  • SAEMEND
    In old English law. An umpire, or arbitrator. Saepe oonstltntnm est, res Inter alios Judicata aliis non prsejudicare. It has often been settled that matters adjudged between others ought not to prejudice those who were not parties. Dig. 42, 1, 63. o' 8"pe viatorem nova, non veins, orbita fallit. 4 More...
  • SAEVITIA
    Lat. In the law of divorcer. Cruelty; anything whichs tends to bodily harm, and in that manner renders cohabitation unsafe. 1 Hagg. Const 458.
  • SAFE-CONDUCT
    A guaranty or security granted by the king under the great seal to a stranger, for his safe coming into and passing out of the kingdom. Cowell. One of the papers usually carried by vessels In time of war, and necessary to the safety of neutral merchantmen. It is in More...
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