Sac

or SAK (Law Lat. saca, sacha; from Saxon, sac, a cause, sake). In old English and Scotch law. The cognizance tenants. The privilege which a lord had, within his manor, of holding pleas of trespasses and other controversies arising there, and of imposing levying, and collecting of his tenants, fines, and amercements in regard of the same. Spelman; Bracton, fol.

154b.

A privilege touching plea, or correction of trespasses of men within a manor. Minshew, cited in Cowell; Rastal, Expos, A forfeiture.

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