Sacramentum
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Sacramentum, an oath. As to the sacramenti actio of the Civil Law, see Sand. Just., and Cum. C. L. 313.
Means the money staked as wager. The word evidently has a religious significance. The sum of the wager, forfeited by the party found to be in the wrong, was anciently devoted to religious pur-poses, later went to the public chest. But there is reason to think that at a still earlier period the word sacramentum meant, not a thing staked as a wager on the result of litigation, but an oath by each party as to justice of his cause, involving a penalty to be paid to the offended deity, if the oath was found to be false, the Element of Roman Law, R.W. Lee, 4th Edn., 1956, p. 422.
Means the money staked as wager. The word evidently has a religious significance. The sum of the wager, forfeited by the party found to be in the wrong, was anciently devoted to religious pur-poses, later went to the public chest. But there is reason to think that at a still earlier period the word sacramentum meant, not a thing staked as a wager on the result of litigation, but an oath by each party as to justice of his cause, involving a penalty to be paid to the offended deity, if the oath was found to be false, the Element of Roman Law, R.W. Lee, 4th Edn., 1956, p. 422.
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