Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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SALADINE TENTH

SAGAMAN

but differently, according to their vocation oi capacity; the function of each being assigned, like grades in a regiment, by the choice of the directing authority, and the remunera tion being by salary, proportioned to the im portance, in the eyes of that authority, of the function itself, and the merits of the person who fulfills it. 1 Mill, Pol. Econ. 258. SAIO. In Gothic law. The ministerial officer of a court or magistrate, who brought parties into court and executed the orders of his superior. Spelman. SAISIE-ARRET. In French law. An attachment of property in the possession of a third person. SAISIE-EXECUTION. In French law. A writ resembling that of fieri facias; de fined as that species of execution by which a creditor places under the hand of justice (custody of the law) his debtor's movable property liable to seizure, in order to have it sold, so that he may obtain payment of his debt out of the proceeds. Dalloz, Diet. SAISIE-FORAINE. In French law. A species of foreign attachment; that which a creditor, by the permission of the president of a tribunal of first instance or a juge de paix, may exercise, without preliminary pro cess, upon the effects, found within the com mune where he lives, belonging to his foreign debtor. Dalloz, Diet. SAISIE-GAGERIE. In French law. A conservatory act of execution, by which the owner or principal lessor of a house or farm causes the furniture of the house or farm leased, and on which he has a lien, to be seized; similar to the distress of the common law, Dalloz, Diet. SAISIE-IMMOBILIERE. In French law. The proceeding by which a creditor places under the hand of justice (custody of the law) the immovable propeity of hisdebt or, in order that the same may be sold, and that he may obtain payment of his debt out of the proceeds. Dalloz, Diet. SAKE. In old English law. A lord's right of amerciug his tenants in his court. Keilw. 145. Acquittance of suit at county courts and hundred courts. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 47, § 7. SALADINE TENTH. A tax imposed in England and France, in 1188, by Pope In nocent III., to raise a fund for the crusade undertaken by Richard I. of England and

SAGAMAN. A tale-telier; a secret ac cuser. SAGES DE LA LLi. L. Fr. of the law; persons learned in the law. A term applied to the chancellor and justices of the king's bench. SAGIBARO. In old European law. A judge or justice; literally, a man of causes, or having charge or supervision of causes. One who administered justice and decided causes in the medium, or public assembly. Spelman. SAID. Before mentioned. This word is constantly used in contracts, pleadings, and other legal papers, with the same force as "aforesaid." SAIGA. In old European law. A Ger man coin of the value of a penny, or of three pence. SAIL. In insurance law. To put to sea; to begin a voyage. The least locomo tion, with readiness of equipment and clear ance, satisfies a warranty to sail. 3 Barn. & Adol. 514. SAILING. When a vessel quits her moorings, in complete readiness for sea, and it is the actual and real intention of the mas ter to proceed on the voyage, and she is aft erwards stopped by head winds and comes to anchor, still intending to proceed as soon as wind and weather will permit, this is a sail ing on the voyage within the terms of a pol icy of insurance. 20 Pick. 278. SAILING INSTRUCTIONS. Written or printed directions, delivered by the com manding officer of a convoy to the several masters of the ships under his care, by which they are enabled to understand and answer his signals, to know the place of rendezvous appointed for the fleet in case of dispersion by storm, by an enemy, or otherwise. With out sailing instructions no vessel can have the protection and benefit of convoy. Marsh. Ins. 368. SAILORS. Seamen; mariners. SAINT MARTIN LE GRAND, COURT OP. An ancient court in London, of local importance, foimerly held in the church from which it took its name. SAINT SIMONISM. An elaborate form of non-communistic socialism. It is a scheme which does not contemplate an equal, but an unequal, division of the produce. It does uot propose that all should be occupied alike,

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