Sacramenti Actio

In the Roman law. General legis actio, to which resort might be had failing a right to use any of the four shorter forms of action. SACRAMENTUM (Law Lat.) In Civil Law. A gage in money laid down in court by both parties that went to law, returned to him who had the verdict on his side, but forfeited by the party who was cast, to the exchequer, to be laid out in sacris rebus, and therefore so called. Varro, lib. 4, de Ling. Lat. c. 36. An oath, as a very sacred thing. Ainsworth; Vicat. The oath taken by soldiers to be true to their general and country. Id. In Old Common Law. An oath. Carpentier; Cowell; Jacob. SACRAIVIENTUIVI DECISIONIS (Lat.) The voluntary or decisive oath of the civil law, where one of the parties to a suit, not being able to prove his case, offers to refer the decision of the cause to the oath of his adversary, who is bound to accept or make the same offer on his part, or the whole is considered as confessed by him. 3 Bl. Comm. 342.