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  • SAFE-PLEDGE
    A surety given that a man shall appear upon a certain day. Bract L 4, c. 1.
  • SAFEGUARD
    In old English law. A special privilege or license, in the form of a writ, under the great seal, granted to strangers seeking their right by course of law within the king's dominions, and apprehending violence or injury to their persons or property from others. Reg. Orig. 26
  • SAGAMAN
    A tale-teller; a secret accuser.
  • SAGES DE LA LEY
    L. Fr. Sages of the law; persons learned in the law. A term applied to the chancellor and justices of the king's bench.
  • SAGIBARO
    In old European law. A judge or justice; literally, a man of causes, or having charge or supervision of causes. One who administered justice and decided causes in the maUum, or public assembly. Spelman.
  • SAID
    Before mentioned This word is constantly used in contracts, pleadings, and other legal papers, with the same force as "aforesaid." See Shattuck v. Balcom, 170 Mass. 245, 49 N. E. 87; Cubine v. State, 44 Tex. Cr. R. 596, 73 S. W. 396; Hinrichsen v. Hinrichsen, 172 111. 462, 50 More...
  • SAIGA
    In old European law. A German coin of tbe value of a penny, or of three "pence".
  • SAUL
    In insurance law. To put to sea; to begin a voyage. The least locomotion, with readiness of equipment and clearance, satisfies a warranty to sail. Pittegrew v. Pringle, 3 Barn. & Adol. 514.
  • SAILING
    When a vessel quits her moorings, in complete readiness for sea, and it is the actual and real intention of the master to proceed on the voyage, and she is afterwards stopped by head winds and comes to anchor, still Intending to proceed as soon as wind and weather will More...
  • SAILING INSTRUCTIONS
    Written or printed directions, delivered by the commanding officer of a convoy to the several masters of the ships under his care, by which they are enabled to understand and answer his signals, to know the place of rendezvous appointed for the fleet in case of dispersion by storm, by More...
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