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  • SANS JOUR
    Fr. Without day; sine die.
  • SANS NOMBRE
    Fr. A term used in relation to the right of putting animals on a common. The term "common aans notnbrc'9 does not mean that the beasts are to be innumerable, but only Indefinite; not certain. Willes, 227.
  • SANS RECOUR8
    Fr. Without recourse. See INDORSEMENT. Sapiens ineipit a fine, et qnod primnm est in intentions, ultimnm est In one* entione. A wise man begins with the last, and what is flrst in intention is last in execution. 10 Coke, 25. Sapiens omnia agit onm oonsilio. A wise man does everything More...
  • SARCULATURA
    L. Lat. In old records. Weeding corn. A tenant's service of weeding for the lord. Cowell.
  • SART
    In old English law. A piece of woodland, turned into arable. Cowell. SARUM. In old records. The city of Salisbury in England. Spelman.
  • SASINE
    In Scotch law. The symbolical delivery of land, answering to the livery of seisin of the old English law. 4 Kent, Comm. 459.
  • SASSE
    In old English law. A kind of wear with flood-gates, most commonly in cut rivers, for the shutting up and letting out of water, as occasion required, for the more ready passing of boats and barges to and fro; a lock; a turnpike; a sluice. Cowell.
  • SASSONS
    The corruption of Saxons. A name of contempt formerly given to tbe English, while they affected to be called "Angles;" they are still so called by the Welsh.
  • SATISDARE
    Lat In the civil law. To guaranty the obligation of a principal.
  • SATISDATIO
    Lat- In the civil law. Security given by a party to an action, as by a defendant, to pay what might be adjudged against him. Inst 4, 11; 3 Bl. Comm. 291
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