Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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SALVAGE SERVICE

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law) to denote a statute, the part (penal clause) being used to denote the whole. Brown. The vindicatory part of a law, or that part which ordains or denounces a penalty for its violation. 1 Bl. Comm. 56. SANCTUARY. In old English law. A consecrated place which had certain privi leges annexed to it, and to which offenders were accustomed to resort for refuge, because they could not be arrested there, nor the laws bejexecuted. SAND-GAVEL. In old English law. A payment due to the lord of the manor of Rodley, in the county of Gloucester, for lib erty 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, memo ry, and understanding. This is one of the essential elements in the capacity of con tracting; and the absence or it in lunatics and idiots, and its immaturity in infants, is the cause of their respective incapacities or partial incapacities to bind themselves. The like circumstance is their ground of exemp tion in cases of crime. Brown. SANG, or SANC. In old French. Blood. SANGUINE, or MURREY. An her aldic 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 rec ognized by some writers. In engraving, it is denoted by numerous lines in saltire. Wharton. SANGUINEM EMERE. Lat. In feudal law. A redemption by villeins, of their blood or tenure, in order to become freemen. Sanguinis conjunctio benevolentia de vineit homines et caritate. A tie of blood overcomes men through benevolence and fam ily affection. 5 Johns. Ch. 1, 13. 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. Ang. t. i. 1021. SANIS. A kind of punishment among the Greeks; inflicted by binding the male factor fast to a piece of wood. Enc. Lond

SALVAGE SERVICE. In maritime law. Any service rendered in saving prop erty on the sea, or wrecked on the coast of the sea. 1 Sum. 210. SALVIAN INTERDICT. See INTER DICTTTM SALYIANUM. SALVO. Lat. Saving; excepting; with out prejudice to. Salvo me et hceredibus tneis, except me and my heirs. Salvo jure cujuslibet, without prejudice to the rights of any one. SALVOR. A person who, without any particular relation to a ship in distress, prof fers useful service, and gives it as a volun teer adventurer, without any pre-existing covenant that connected him with the duty of employing himself for the preservation of that ship. 10 Pet. 122. SALVUS PLEGITJS. L. Lat. A safe pledge; called, also, "certusplegius," a sure pledge. Bract, fol. 1606. SAME. The word "same" does not al ways mean "identical," not different or oth er. It frequently means of the kind or spe cies, not the specific thing. 40 Iowa, 487, 493. SAMPLE. A specimen; a small quan tity of any commodity, presented ior inspec tion or examination as evidence of the quali ty of the whole; as a sample of cloth or of wheat. SAMPLE, SALE BY. A sale at which only a sample of the goods sold is exhibited to the buyer. SANJE 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 or dained against those who should violate it. Inst. 2, 1, 10. SANCTION. In the original sense of the word, a "sanction" is a penalty or punish ment provided as a means of enforcing obe dience 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 dis regarded. Therefore international law has no legal sanction. Sweet. In a more general sense, a "sanction" has been defined as a conditional evil annexed to a law to produce obedience to that Jaw; and, in a still wider sense, a "sanction" means simply an authorization of anything. Occa sionally, "sanction" is used (e. g. t in Roman

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