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Salutem

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

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

2.

Health; greeting; prosperity; salvation.

In old English law

A formal word in the commencement of deeds, probably derived from the Roman practice; a formal word invariably used in the address of writs, which commenced in the epistolary form. In the Roman law. A formal word in the commencement of deeds and charters, which, during the later periods of the empire, were written in an epistolary form.