Schout

An officer appointed by a court 1135. In Holland with both judicial and administrative duties. He resembled a resident mag- SCILICET (Lat. scire, to know, licet, it is istrate, though he could not act judicially permitted; you may know; translated by without the schepenen. The schout and the to tint, in its old sense of to know). That is schepenen looked after the well-being of the to say; to wit; namely. citizens, and saw that the city was properly It is a clause to usher in the sentence of policed. Wessels’ History. In New Nether- another, to particularize that which was too lands the schout was sheriff and collector general before, distribute what was too gross, of customs. Fiske, Hist. Writings* VIII, 153. or to explain what was doubtful and obscure.