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  • SALT DUTY IN LONDON
    A custom In the city, of London called "granage," formerly payable to the lord mayor, etc., for salt brought to the port of London, being the twentieth part Wharton..
  • SALT SILVER
    One penny paid at the feast day of St Martin, by the tenants of some manors, as a commutation for the service of carrying their lord's salt from market to his larder. Paroch. Antiq. 496.
  • SALUS
    Lat Health; prosperity; safety. Sains popnli suprema lex. The welfare of the people is the supreme law. Bac Max. reg. 12; Broom, Max. 1-10; Montesq. Esprit des Lois, lib. 26, c. 23; 13 Coke, 139. Sains reipubliees suprema lex. The welfare of the state Is the supreme law. Inhabitants of More...
  • SALUTE
    A gold coin stamped by Henry V. in France, after his conquests there, whereon the arms of England rind France were stamped quarterly. Cowell.
  • SALVA GARDIA
    L. Lat Safeguard. Reg. Orig. 26.
  • SALIC LAW
    A body of law framed by the Sallan Franks, after their settlement in Gaul under their king Pharamond, about the beginning of the fifth century. It is the most ancient of the barbarian codes, and Is considered one of the most important compilations of law in use among the feudal More...
  • SALOON
    does not necessarily Import a place to sell liquors. It may mean a place for the sale of general refreshments. Kitson v. Ann Arbor, 26 Mich. 325.
  • SALVIAN INTERDICT
    See INTERDICTUM SALVlANUM
  • SALVO
    Lat Saving; excepting; without prejudice to. Salvo me et hceredibus meis, except me and my heirs. Salvo jure cujuslibet, without prejudice to the rights of any one.
  • SALVOR
    A person who, without any particular relation to a ship in distress, proffers useful service, and gives it aa a volunteer adventurer, without any pre-existing covenant that connected him with the duty of employing himself for the preservation of that ship. The Clara, 23 Wall. 16, 23 L. Ed. 150; More...
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