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SAIL

In insurance law. To put to sea; to begin a voyage. The least locomotion, with readiness of equipment and clearance, satisfies a warranty to sail. Pittegrew v. I’ringle, 3 Barn. & Adol.

SALIC LAW

A body of law framed by the Salian Franks, after their settlement In Gaul under their king Pharamond, about the beginning of the fifth century. It is the most ancient of the

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

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

SAYER

In Hindu law. Variable imposts distinct from laud, rents, or revenues; consisting of customs, tolls, licenses, duties on goods; also taxes on houses, shops, ba- zaars, etc. Wharton.

SCHIRRENS-GELD

In Saxon law. A tax paid to sheriffs for keeping the shire or county court. Cowell.

SCOT

In old English law. A tax, or tribute; one’s share of a contribution.

SCUSSUS

In old European law. Shaken or beaten out; threshed, as grain. Spelman.

SEAMEN

Sailors; mariners; persons whose business is navigating ships. Commonly exclusive of the officers of a ship.

SECT

“A religious sect is a body or number of persons united in tenets, but con- stituting a distinct organization or party, by holding sentiments or doctrines different from those of other sects

SED QUAERE

Lat But inquire; examine this further. A remark indicating, briefly, that the particular statement or rule laid down is doubted or challenged in respect to its correctness. SED VIDE 1067 SEISED IN

SELF-REGARDING EVIDENCE

Evidence which either serves or disserves the party is so called. This species of evidence is either self-serving (which is not in general receivable) or self-disserving, which is Invariably receivable, as being

SENTENTIA

Lat. In the civil law. (1) Sense; import; as distinguished from mere words. (2) The deliberate expression of one’s will or intention. (3) The sentence of a judge or court. Sentcntia a

SEQUELS

Small allowances of meal, or manufactured victual, made to the servants at a mill where corn was ground, by tenure, in Scotland. Wharton.

SERVAGE,

in feudal law, was where a tenant, besides payment of a certain rent, found one or more workmen for his lord’s service. Tomlins. Servanda est consuetudo loci ubi cansa agitur. The custom

SERVITORS OF BILLS

In old English practice. Servants or messengers of the marshal of the king’s bench, sent out with bills or writs to summon persons to that court. Now more commonly called “tipstaves.” Cowell.

SEVERALTY

agreeing with his minutes and his recollection. See Railroad Co. v. Cone, 37 Kan. 507, 15 Pac. 409; In re Prout’s Estate (Sur.) 11 N. Y. Supp. 100.

SEXTUS DECRETALIUM

Lat. The sixth (book) of the decretals; the sext, or sixth decretal. So called because appended, in the body of the canon law, to the five books of the decretals of Gregory

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