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Saccus

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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In old English law

A sack; a quantity of wool weighing thirty or twenty-eight stone; a sack or pack: a pack saddle. Saccus cum brochia: a sack [or pack of cloth used with or in place of a saddle] with a broche [bi-oach or pointed iron], — tilings the finding of which was one of the services by which one might hold of the king; a species of petty serjeanty.