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  • 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
  • SATISFACTION
    The act of satisfying a party by paying what is due to him, (as on a mortgage, lien, or contract,) or what is awarded to him, by the judgment of a court or otherwise. Thus, a judgment is satisfied by the payment of the amount due to tbe party who More...
  • SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE
    See EVIDENCE.
  • SATISFIED TERM
    A term of years in land is thus called when the purpose for which it was created has been satisfied or executed before the expiration of the set period. -Satisfied tents act. The statute 8 & 9 Vict. c. 112, passed to abolish satisfied outstanding terms of years in land. More...
  • SATISFY
    in technical use, generally means to comply actually and fully with a demand; to extinguish, by payment or performance. Satins est petere fontes qnam seetari rivnlos. Lofft, 606. It is better to seek the' source than to follow the streamlets.
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