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. Id.

SAK. An ancient privilege, which a lord of a manor claimed to have in his court, of holding plea in causes of trespass arising among his tenants, and imposing fines touching the same. A term which seems to mean a cause or matter before a court what in later Latin was termed placitum. Soc seems to have the same meaning. It is apparently derived from a word which means seeking; 1 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 11; Maitland, Domesday 84, 259. S and puts in surety 7 to prosecute the felon with fresh suit. Britton, c. 15, 29; Bracton, 1. 3, c. 32; Cowell.

sak, Saca, sacca, sacha, I. 1.

In old English and Scots law. The jurisdiction of a manor court; the privilege of a lord of V manor of holding pleas and collecting fines and ameroemeuts.

The liberty of holding pleas and amercements; the jurisdiction of a franchise or manor court. Soc: the money paid therefor, or for exemption therefrom.

Authority to exercise jurisdiction in the court of a lordship or manor, and to impose mulcts and forfeitures upon transgressors. Termes de la Ley; Cowel.