Serviens
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
1. 1 In old English law.
A serjeant; a counter or pleader; a sheriff's officer; a bailiff; any ministerial officer; a vassal, or feudal tenant; a servant Servians ad clavam: serjeant at mace. Ser- Tiens ad legem: serjeant at law. Serviens domini regis: king's serjeant; a public officer, who sometimes acted as the sheriff's deputy, and had also judicial powers.