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  • SCRIPTORIUM
    In old records. A place in monasteries, where writing was done. Spelman. "SCRIPTUM. Lat. A writing; something written. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 60, ? 25. -Scripturn indentatum. A writing indented; an indenture or deed.-Scriptum obliara-toriunt. A writing obligatory. The technical name of a bond in old pleadings. Any writing under More...
  • SCRIVENER
    A writer; scribe; conveyancer. One whose occupation is to draw contracts, write deeds and mortgages, and prepare other species of written instruments. Also an agent to whom property is intrusted by others for the purpose of lending it out at an interest payable to his principal, and for a commission More...
  • SCROLL
    A mark Intended to supply the place of a seal, made with a pen or other Instrument of writing. A paper or parchment containing some writing, and rolled up so as to conceal it
  • SCROOP'S INN
    An obsolete law society, also called "Serjeants' Place," opposite to St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, London.
  • SCRUET-ROLL
    In old practice. A species of roll or record, on which the bail on habeas corpus was entered.
  • SCRUTATOR
    Lat . In old English law. A searcher or bailiff of a river; a water-bailiff, whose business was to look to the king's rights, as his wrecks, his flotsam, jetsam, water-strays, royal fishes. Hale, de Jure Mar. pars 1, c. 5.
  • SCUSSUS
    In old European law. Sha& en or beaten out; threshed, as grain. Spelman.
  • SCUTAGE
    In feudal law. A tax or contribution raised by those that held lands by knight's service, towards furnishing the king's army, at the rate of one, two or three marks for every knight's fee. A.pecuniary composition or commutation made by a tenant by knight-service in lieu of actual service. 2 More...
  • SCUTAGIO HABENDO
    A writ that anciently lay against tenants by knight's service to serve in the wars, or send sufficient persons, or pay a certain sum. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 83.
  • SCUTE
    A French coin of gold, coined A. D. 1427, of the value of 3s. 4d.
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