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  • 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...
  • SANCTUARY
    In old English law. A consecrated place which had certain privileges annexed to it, and to which offenders were accustomed to resort for refuge, because they could not be arrested there, nor the laws be executed.
  • SAND-GAVEL
    In old English law. A payment due to the lord of the manor of Rodley, in the county of Gloucester, for liberty granted to the tenants to dig sand for their common use. Cowell.
  • SANE
    Of natural and normal mental condition; healthy in mind ----Sane memory. Sound mind, memory, and understanding. This is one of tbe essential elements in the capacity of contracting; and the, absence of it in lunatics and idiots, and its immaturity in infants, is the cause of their respective incapacities or More...
  • SANG, OR SANC
    In old French. Blood.
  • SANGUINE, OR MURREY
    An heraldic term for "blood-color," called, in the arms of princes, "dragon's tail," and, in those of lords, "sardonyx." It is a tincture of very infrequent occurrence, and not recognized by some writers. In engraving, it is denoted by numerous lines In saltlre. Wharton.
  • SANGUINEM EMERE
    Lat In feudal law. A redemption by villeins, of their blood or tenure, in order to become freemen. Sanguinis eonjunctio benevolentia de-vincit homines et oaritatc. A tie of blood overcomes men through benevolence and family affection. Steere v. Steere, 5 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 1, 13, 9 Am. Dec. 256.
  • SANGUIS
    Lat In the civil and old English law. Blood; consanguinity. The right or power which the chief lord of the fee had to judge and determine cases where blood was shed. Mon. Aug. t !.' 1021.
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