Sacramentum

Lat.

In Roman law. An oath, as being a very sacred thing; more particularly, the oath taken by soldiers to be true to their general and their country. Ainsw. Lex. In one of the formal methods of beginning an action at law (legis actiones) known to the early Roman jurisprudence, the sacramentum was a sum of money deposited in court by each of the litigating parties, as a kind of wager or forfeit, to abide the resuit of the suit. The successful party received back his stoke; the losing party forfeited hls, and it was paid into the public treasury, to be expended for sacred objects, (in sacris rebus,) whence the name. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 203. 'In common law. An oath. Cowell.

— Sacramentum decisionis. The voluntary cr 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.

— Sacramentum fidelitatis. In old English law. The oath of fealty. Reg. Orig. 303.

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In old English law. An oath; the oath of a juror, witness or party to a suit v. Eepellitur, etc. Sacramentum fldel- Itatis: the oath of fealt}'. Satramentum habet in se tres comltes, veritatem, Justitiam et judicium; Veritas habenda est in jurato, justitiaet judicium in judice: an oath implies or requires three attendant circumstances: truth, justice and judgment; truth is to be observed in the party sworn, justice and judgment in the judge [before whom the oath is taken]. was allowed to be decided, where the prove his charge, and offered to refer oath of his adversary.

In the Roman law. A sum of money an action, which fell to the gaining cause; a suit or cause; a military oath. Sacrilege: In English law. Larceny from or chapel, and stealing therein.

In old English law. Profanation of laymen or to profane or common ligious pereons and to pious uses, Sacrileg:iuiu, I.

In the civil law. The things dedicated to sacred uses; the placa

I. An oath; a juror's oatli.