Sorcery
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
It was punished in England like witchcraft, which see. SORS (Lat.). In Civil Law. A lot; chance; fortune. Calvinus, Lex.; ^insworth, Diet. Sort. Kind. The little scroll on which the thing to be drawn by lot was written. Carpentier, Gloss. A principal or capital sum: e. g. the capital of a partnership. Calvinus, Lex. In Old English Law. A principal lent on interest, as distinguished from the interest itself. Pryn. Collect, p.
161; Cowell. S0RTITI0.
A casting of lots. Sortitio judicum, a drawing of judges, on criminal trials, similar to the modern practice of drawing a jury.
3 Bla. Com. 366.