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  • 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...
  • SALVUS PLEGIUS
    L. Lat A safe pledge; called, also, "certus pleoius," a sure pledge. Bract fol. 160b.
  • SAME
    The word "same" does not always mean "identical," not different or other. It frequently means of the kind or species, not the specific thing. Crapo v. Brown, 40 Iowa, 487, 498.
  • SALVAGE
    In maritime law. A compensation allowed to persons by whose assistance a ship or its cargo has been saved, in whole or In part from impending danger, or recovered from actual loss, in cases of shipwreck, derelict, or recapture. 8 Kent Comm. 245. Cope r. Vallette Dry-Dock Co., 119 U. More...
  • SAMPLE
    A specimen; a small quantity of any commodity, presented for inspection or examination as evidence of the quality of the whole; as a sample of cloth or of wheat -Sample, sale by. A sale at which only a sample of the goods sold is exhibited to the buyer.
  • SANAE MENTIS
    Lat In old English law. Of sound mind. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 7, ? 1.
  • SANCTIO
    Lat. In the civil law. That part of a law by which a penalty was ordained against those who should violate it Inst 2* 1, 10.
  • SANCTION
    In the original sense of the word, a "sanction" is a penalty or punishment provided aa a means of enforcing obedience to a law. In jurisprudence,-a law is said to have a sanction when there Is a state which will intervene if it is disobeyed or disregarded Therefore international law More...
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