KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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SAIL

SALARY

N SAHi. 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. Pringle, 3 Barn. & Adol. 514. When a vessel quits her moorings, in complete readiness for sea, and it is the actual and real intention of the master to proceed on the voyage, and she is afterwards stopped by head winds and P comes to anchor, still intending to proceed as soon as wind and weather will permit, this is a sailing on the voyage within the terms of a policy of insurance. Bowen v. Hope Ins. Co., 20 Pick. (Mass.) 278, 32 Am. ** Dec. 213. Written or printed directions, delivered by the com manding officer of a convoy to the several masters of the ships under his care, by D 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 other wise. Without sailing instructions no vessel Scan have the protection and benefit of con voy. Marsh. Ins. 368. Q SAILING. SAILING INSTRUCTIONS. SAINT MARTIN LE GRAND, COURT OF. An ancient court in London, of local importance, formerly 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 not propose that all should be occupied alike, but differently, according to their vocation or capacity; the function of each being as signed, like grades in a regiment, by the choice of the directing authority, and the remuneration being by salary, proportioned to the importance, in the eyes of that au thority, of the function itself, and the merits . of the person who fulfills i t 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. Fr. In French law. A judicial seizure or sequestration of property, of which there are several varieties. See infra. — Saisie-arret. An attachment of property in the possession of a third person.—Saisie-exe cution. A writ resembling that of fieri facias; denned as that species of execution by which a creditor places under the hand of justice (cus tody 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. A SAILORS. Seamen; mariners.

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 process, upon the effects, found within the commune where he lives, belonging to his foreign debtor. Dalloz, Diet.—Saisie-gagerie. A conservatory act of execution, by which the owner or principal les sor 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-immo biliere. The proceeding by which a creditor places under the hand of justice (custody of the law) the immovable property of his debtor, in order that the same may be sold, and that he may obtain payment of his debt out of the pro ceeds. Dalloz, Diet. In old English law. A lord's right of amercing his tenants in his court Keilw. 145. Acquittance of suit at county courts and hundred courts. Fleta, L 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 Philip Augustus of France, against Saladin, sultan of Egypt, then going to besiege Jeru salem. By this tax every person who did not enter himself a crusader was obliged to pay a tenth of his yearly revenue and of the value of all his movables, except his wearing apparel, books, and arms. The Carthusians, Bernardines, and some other religious per sons were exempt Gibbon remarks that when the necessity for this tax no longer existed, the church still clung to it as too lucrative to be abandoned, and thus arose the tithing of ecclesiastical benefices for the pope or other sovereigns. Enc. Lond. SALARIUM. Lat. In the civil law. An allowance of provisions. A stipend, wages, or compensation for services. An annual al lowance or compensation. Calvin. SALARY. A recompense or considera tion made to a person for his pains and industry in another person's business; also wages, stipend, or annual allowance. Cow ell. A fixed periodical compensation to be paid for services rendered; a stated compensation, amounting to so much by the year, month, or other fixed period, to be paid to public officers and persons in some private employ ments, for the performance of official duties or the rendering of services of a particular kind, more or less definitely described, in volving professional knowledge or skill, or at least employment above the grade of me nial or mechanical labor. See State v. Speed, 183 Mo. 186, 81 S. W. 1260; Dane v. Smith, 54 Ala. 50; Fidelity Ins. Co. v. Shenandoah Iron Co. (C. C.) 42 Fed. 376; Cowdin v. Huff, 10 Ind. 85; In re Chancellor, 1 Bland (Md.) 596; Houser v. Umatilja County, 30 Or. 486, 49 Pac 867; Thompson v. Phillips, 12 Ohio SAKE.