Latin: In feudal law. A redemption by villeins, of their blood or tenure, in order to become freemen. Sanguinis eonjunctio benevolentia de-vincit homines et oaritatc. A tie of blood overcomes men through benevolence and family affection. Steere v. Steere, 5 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 1, 13, 9 Am. Dec. 256. … [Read more...] about SANGUINEM EMERE
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SAME
(A) Identical or a duplicate that is the virtual equivalent. (B) The word "same" does not always mean "identical," not different or other. It frequently means of the kind or species, not the specific thing. Crapo v. Brown, 40 Iowa, 487, 498. … [Read more...] about SAME
SANGUIS
Latin: 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. … [Read more...] about SANGUIS
SAMPLE
contracts. A small quantity of any commodity or merchandise, exhibited as a specimen of a larger quantity called the bulk. 2. When a sale is made by sample, and it afterwards turns out that the bulk does not correspond with it, the purchaser is not, in general, bound to take the property on a compensation being made to him for the difference. 3. A specimen; a small quantity of … [Read more...] about SAMPLE
SANIS
A kind of punishment among the Greeks; inflicted by binding the malefactor fast to a piece of wood. Enc Londv … [Read more...] about SANIS