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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

A tenant. TACTIS SACROSANCTIS (Law Lat.) In old English law. Touching the holy (evangelists). Pleta, lib.

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16, § 21. "A bishop may swear visis evangeliis (looking TACTIS SACROSANCTIS SCRIPTURIS (Lat.) In old European law. Touching the holy Scriptures. Feud. lib. 2, tit. 2, pr. Sacrosanctis evangeliis tactis. Code, 3. 1. 14. 1. TACTO PER SE SANCTO EVANGELIC (Law Lat.) Having personally touched the holy Gospel. Cro. Eliz. 105. The description of a corporal oath.