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. … [Read more...] about SAKE
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SALIQUE LAW
The name of a code of laws so called from the Salians, a people of Germany, who settled in Gaul under their king Phararaond. 2. The most remarkable law of this code is that which regards succession. De terra vero salica nulla portio haereditatis transit in mulierem, sed hoc virile sextus acquirit, hoc est filii in ipsa haereditate succedunt; no part of the salique land passes … [Read more...] about SALIQUE LAW
SALABLE
Fit for sale to the general public for the purposes of use, merchantable. … [Read more...] about SALABLE
SALLIE MAE (STUDENT LOAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION)
The government corporation which provides for student loans. … [Read more...] about SALLIE MAE (STUDENT LOAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION)
SALADINE TENTH
A tax imposed in England and France, in 1188, by Pope Innocent III., to raise a fund for the crusade undertaken by Richard I. of England and Philip Augustus of France, against Saladln, sultan of Egypt, then going to besiege Jerusalem. 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 … [Read more...] about SALADINE TENTH