Security For Good Behavior
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Giving surety of the peace (q. v.) SECURIUS EXPEDIUNTUR NEGOTIA commissa pluribus, et plus vident oculi quam oculus. Business Intrusted to several speeds best, and several eyes see more than one eye. 4 Coke, 46. SECUS (Lat.) Otherwise. SED NON ALLOCATUR (Lat. but it Is not allowed). A phrase used in the old reports to signify that the court disagreed with the arguments of counsel. "It was argued," etc., "sed non allocatur." SED PER CURIAM (Lat. but by the court). An expression sometimes found in the reports, after the opinion of a single judge, to introduce that of the court which differs from that of the single judge. SED VIDE (Lat.) But see.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A band or recognizance which the magistrate exacts from a defendant brought before him on a charge of disorderly conduct or threatening violence, conditioned upon his being of good behavior, or keeping the peace, for a prescribed period, towards all people in general and the complainant in particular.
Defined under Security in Black's Law Dictionary.